Flashback: The Quest for Identity (1992)
Flashback: The Quest for Identity is a 1992 platform video game made by Delphine Software and Tiertex Design Studios.
Conrad B. Hart wakes up on an alien jungle moon with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Flashback is a cinematic sci-fi platformer that pairs fluid, rotoscoped animation with a globe-spanning conspiracy: Conrad pieces together his identity by talking to strangers, completing missions in a grimy near-future city, and eventually venturing far off Earth. The game's pacing is deliberate, its world dense with terminals and documents, and its atmosphere sits somewhere between Philip K. Dick and a late-night thriller.
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What is Flashback: The Quest for Identity about?
Conrad B. Hart wakes up on an alien jungle moon with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Flashback is a cinematic sci-fi platformer that pairs fluid, rotoscoped animation with a globe-spanning conspiracy: Conrad pieces together his identity by talking to strangers, completing missions in a grimy near-future city, and eventually venturing far off Earth. The game's pacing is deliberate, its world dense with terminals and documents, and its atmosphere sits somewhere between Philip K. Dick and a late-night thriller.
When was Flashback: The Quest for Identity released?
Flashback: The Quest for Identity was released on 1 December 1992.
Who made Flashback: The Quest for Identity?
Flashback: The Quest for Identity was made by Delphine Software, Tiertex Design Studios and U.S. Gold.
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The amnesiac-hero-vs-alien-infiltration plot runs on the same paranoid frequency as Cowboy Bebop, where a bounty hunter's fragmented past keeps resurfacing in a sprawling, colonised solar system. For something bleaker and earthbound, Moon 44 shares the retrofuturist corporate-dystopia setting.