Does anyone remember this game?

xxThe_Dice_manxx · Sep 27, 2015

Greetings

Captain Blood (Atari ST)

I bought this game a long time ago for my ST and even tho I read the manual and book with it I had no Idea what the game was about, does anyone remember it or can you tell me what the hell you were meant to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrRVQNYy19I

xondk · Sep 27, 2015

wow that rings my nostalgia bells, I remember it dang that's a long time ago.

Patrick_68000 · Sep 27, 2015

I had bought but never played. Just a little traveled in the sky

JeffRyan · Sep 27, 2015

I had it, I played it, I loved it.

I never quite 'got' it.

The Librarian · Sep 27, 2015

The point was to round up his (unintentional) clones and disintegrate them in order to restore his life-force, or he would die from a the side effects of the cloning event (early symptoms manifested as a mild palsy, progressing to severe, then death).

One feature of the game was that if it detected you were running a copied version, the palsy started as soon as you started the game, making it almost completely unplayable, as you could not select your required co-ordinates on the galaxy map for your next jump.

The Novella that shipped with the game provided the back-story (http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/captainblood/ark1.htm).

glynie · Sep 27, 2015

How about this one?

Mission Critical for MS-DOS. Give it a go if you can get hold of it.

S. Belmont · Sep 28, 2015

Wow, looks cool, graphics reminds me of landing computer of Nostromo in Alien.

Raf von Thorn · Sep 28, 2015

That was an epic game!

znôrt · Sep 28, 2015

a hell of a game. weird! i never finished it.

DNA-Decay · Sep 28, 2015

xxThe_Dice_manxx said:
Greetings

Captain Blood (Atari ST)

I bought this game a long time ago for my ST and even tho I read the manual and book with it I had no Idea what the game was about

Oh yeah,

Captain Blood had this wonderful landing sequence that looked like the terrain computer from Alien.
And that crazy language interface - just incredible.
It was French wasn't it? French like "The City of Lost Children" and other stange and beautiful films.

I'm glad no-one in this thread beat it. (I never did)

And I put in a lot of hours. I got stuck somehow and couldn't progress spend weeks just entering random co-ordinates hoping to stumble across the next thing.
Found things - but never the 'nex't thing.

It was by FAR the strangest game I played on that platform.

dryjoy · Sep 28, 2015

I played it on the Amiga, I expect it was the same as the Atari ST version. I remember it being amazingly atmospheric and absorbing. I played it for hours but never finished it. I think I later had the PC version, and it was nowhere near as good. I seem to remember that it was quite a different game on the PC (could be wrong about that).

Cosmo · Sep 28, 2015

xxThe_Dice_manxx said:
Greetings

Captain Blood (Atari ST)

I bought this game a long time ago for my ST and even tho I read the manual and book with it I had no Idea what the game was about, does anyone remember it or can you tell me what the hell you were meant to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrRVQNYy19I

Well that game has aliens at least... which is still missing in ED.

Kramster · Sep 28, 2015

JeffRyan said:
I had it, I played it, I loved it.

I never quite 'got' it.

pretty much this ^ it dared to be different but I couldn't shake the feeling that I just hadn't taken enough meds (or possibly too many ^^) when I played it.
Jean Michel Jarre ftw

t00thPIK · Sep 29, 2015

Creepy

adoredtv · Sep 30, 2015

Yeah the music was great in it. What was the name of the company that created it, was it Psygnosis?

Does anyone remember an old ST game called Xenomorph? The image by Glynie reminded me of it thought it's a much earlier game.

Zeeman · Sep 30, 2015

The Librarian said:
The point was to round up his (unintentional) clones and disintegrate them in order to restore his life-force, or he would die from a the side effects of the cloning event (early symptoms manifested as a mild palsy, progressing to severe, then death).

One feature of the game was that if it detected you were running a copied version, the palsy started as soon as you started the game, making it almost completely unplayable, as you could not select your required co-ordinates on the galaxy map for your next jump.
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Well, that explains that! No wonder I never got far.

Z...

Caspar · Oct 7, 2015

xxThe_Dice_manxx said:
Greetings

Captain Blood (Atari ST)

I bought this game a long time ago for my ST and even tho I read the manual and book with it I had no Idea what the game was about, does anyone remember it or can you tell me what the hell you were meant to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrRVQNYy19I

My friend had this on his Amiga 500 ... I loved it. After a bad hyperspace jump, Captain Blood had been cloned in error. Your job as the good Captain was to fly round the universe looking for the clones before you died. Or something like that.

Lobstris · Oct 7, 2015

Never could get the hang of Captain Blood on the Atari ST. Seemed very.... French.

zarood · Oct 13, 2015

Thanks for the remember about the Game.

Leper Messiah · Oct 13, 2015

I loved Captain Blood, but like others I didn't have a scooby what the hell was happening!

I just loved the landing sequence!

adoredtv said:
Yeah the music was great in it. What was the name of the company that created it, was it Psygnosis?

Does anyone remember an old ST game called Xenomorph? The image by Glynie reminded me of it thought it's a much earlier game.

Oh god I remember Xenomorph, twas awesome if I recall right. Like a spacey Dungeon Master (which was also an uber cool game I had)