Flashback™

I love this game :) since SNES Aera so i would by this one piece of recode, if linux version would be released. ????? THX

Originally released on the Amiga and a year later on the PC. This is an awesome game that shows how platform games should be made. No silly mushrooms here only instant death either by the guards or drop falls. Can you make it back to earth and take part in the game show? High skill and patience are needed for this , I’ve personally never finished it even I had the game on an Amiga 500 back in 1992!

Flashback is possibly one of the best 2D adventure games of all time, that is widely overlooked by the majority of game media. If it were not for the last level, the game would be pretty much perfect. Across the first 2 levels the game gradually introduces you to the basic mechanics of the game, in no time you will get a feel for how far conrad jumps and where he will end up at the end of a roll. All of which will become crucial to finishing later levels without too much difficulty. The last level however, despite being one of the best looking scenes ion the whole game, is a bit of a crap fest. Laden with cheap enemies, akward areas to fight them in, very long periods between save points...it's almost like they didn't actually test this level all that much or just chucked in the enemies after the fact. Either way, even after completing it numerous times over the last 25 years, it's a pretty disappointing end to a fantastic adventure and leaves a bit of a bad taste. In regards to this port, it's fairly decent but has some glaring issues. -No Key Rebinding -No proper Direct Input support (Odd button layout, D-Pad doesn't work) -Only contains the DOS sounds, which are inferior to some other versions -Bloom effects haven't been used very creatively. It's still worth buying if you love Flashback or haven't had a chance to play it yet, just be aware that it's not quite the best version to play. I greatly appreciate that it has finally been released on modern formats, it's been long overdue.

The game is essentially the same as the original, the enhanced graphics are just the original ones with a bilinear filter on top of it, i.e. they are worse. There is also a new intro that makes the game crash about 50% of the times, especially if you launch it from the GOG interface. I've contacted the support service and, although the guy has been very nice to me (even more than I deserved, I'd say...) he just said I had not enough dedicated VRAM to run the game and otherwise had no clue on how to fix my problem. Now, my point is: 512 MB of dedicated memory is a silly requirement for what's essentially a video game from the '90s. In fact, the intro is a normal video I can watch on my media player (by the way, who cares about the intro?) and once the game gets past it without crashing, I can play it no problem. In the end, I've got the original game for free from another source and played it on a DOSBox without problem. You should do the same. I mean, I'm a software engineer and I can say it's just a poorly developped product, even if you have enough memory and the game won't crash on your PC, they just don't deserve your money. I know it's less than 1€, but it's less than 1€ that your thouwing to the bin.

Loved the game 30+ years ago and it's still one of those, that I look back fondly. But as I've experienced in almost all games, that I've replayed for nostalgia - they should stay a fond memory. As others said, the controls are horrible. The graphics are the same, only upscaled. Filters only worsen the experience. These kind of games were made back then, because there was no better technology. They should lie restfully. And if you're gonna make a remake - make one with modern controls.