Triggered by this thread, I was getting set to seek out a link and post about one of my favourite video game intros when I was a kid, only to discover I’ve long since forgotten the name. :smack:
So, here’s what I have:
For the time, I thought it had a pretty cool beginning. Granted, this is through the eyes of a 12-13 year old tomboy gamer. The music was pretty awesome, too - while I can remember the tune. I’m not sure how to describe it…
During the intro, we see the streets of a destroyed city, and a silhouette of a mother pushing a baby carriage across the screen appears. They stop in the middle of the screen, and long tentacles reach out of the pram - this baby is a mutant! The mother faints.
The actual game I don’t recall being all that entertaining, however, at the time, I considered the load time for the intro alone to be totally worth it. Anyway, if I remember correctly, it was a first-person perspective, and you were inside of some sort of robot/computer suit, probably protecting you from all the radioactivity out there in the recently-nuked world. You could control these weird arms on the outside to interact with certain things. You went from room to room, figuring things out.
The rest is lost to me. The unfortunate thing is, as good as I usually am with names, the name written on the disk was “The President is Missing”, which was a totally different game by Cosmi. My father had a habit of copying games from his buddies over games he didn’t care for if he had no spare floppies around. ARGH!
Scanning lists and screenshots of many, many old C64 games, nothing rang a bell. I’m thinking if I heard the name, it would all come rushing back, since I remember referring to it for a while as “The President Is Missing” until my father pointed out that that was not the name of the game at all. I had thought that maybe the title I saw on the intro screen was like a sub/alternate title until I was corrected, and then I began referring to it by the proper name.
BUT WHAT WAS IT?! YARGGH! Help me!