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1. Comchia (comchia@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 04:39:42 UTC Comchia

   Yesterday, I played a bit of the 1989 MS-DOS game Interphase.

   The complex gameplay is rather intriguing, reminding me of a more primitive Descent or System Shock. I also love the flat-shaded polygons that call me back to SNES StarFox. Even the PC speaker shines in this game, with digitised sound.

   #msdos #retrogaming #vintagecomputing #videogames

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 04:39:40 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Ben S.
     • 🌷☀️idspispopd🌙🥀

     @comchia @Bhaal_Spawn @HunterZ I am familiar. More than piloting a thing through a polygonal world, I think a more impressive thing that story-wise it places you in a 3d digital representation of a real world system, way before System Shock.

   • Comchia (comchia@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 04:39:41 UTC Comchia

     in reply to

     • Anatoly Shashkin💾
     • Ben S.
     • 🌷☀️idspispopd🌙🥀

     @Bhaal_Spawn @HunterZ @dosnostalgic any of y'all familiar with this game? I find it interesting so far. It gives me some Super FX vibes, weirdly enough.

   • Comchia (comchia@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 05:14:50 UTC Comchia

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     • Anatoly Shashkin💾
     • Ben S.
     • 🌷☀️idspispopd🌙🥀

     @dosnostalgic @Bhaal_Spawn @HunterZ yeah, it's quite creative in execution, especially for 1989. I wouldn't be surprised if this influenced System Shock. It's neat to me what kind of world was made with such simple shapes.

     I'm especially impressed by how good the digitised PC speaker sound is, even comparing to the Atari ST port. I actually kinda like the harsher sound it has, especially on gun blasts. My DOSBox doesn't seem to like its Adlib, though.