Posted May 07, 2015
Sit down and listen kiddos, uncle Catpower is gonna tell you a story about long forgotten ages when people still played on 486 and early Pentium processors.... (yeah, I'm bored while waiting home for a delivery)
The program FL Studio (previously known as Fruity Loops) is famous and used worldwide by many computer musicians/composers but before being a major player in the DAW business, the company Image Line was into videogames.
Back in early 90's, when games where still on floppy disks, it was common to exchange game copies in the schoolyard and of course one that got copied heavily due to its forbidden nature was Porntris. You don't have to be Einstein to understand that it's a Tetris clone smashed with pictures of pretty ladies in the background. The catch is that for each line you clear, you reveal a portion of an animated porn gif so yeah, that's better motivation than reaching some dumb highscores :o) With nowadays technology, you can play it online on archive.org, you just have to click the image, then you know the rest...
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Porntris_1993
Later on, they stroke a deal with the adult publisher "Private" (magazines and cd-roms) and released a few titles which amongst them was "Private Investigator" which has some Tex Murphy vibe with its 3D detective office and FMV sequences. But the main gameplay is classical 2D sideshooter where you can kill grannies in wheelchairs and fuck women right in the middle of action (you can even select your position). Hatred is tamed compared to it :o)
Luckily, there is a full gameplay video available on youtube to remember those good times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtVOovkFlQA
In 1998, they released "Eat This" which plays more or less like the classic "Abuse" but in a different settings. Compared to Abuse, there are some gameplay variations like the battle drone (check the annotations in the videos for that). As they own all the rights for this game, a demo is still available on their website with even some instructions on how to run it on modern computers:
http://www.image-line.com/company/eatthis/
If you just wanna see the original developer (now working fulltime on FL Studio and making some VST presets) play the game, you can check this great series of videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCDEBAD54F026F423
After this their business caught up with Fruity Loops so they stopped making videogames (except a VG version of the Flemish tv quizz "Blokken") but who knows maybe one day they will come back to show the world we're the greatest nation ^o^
PS: If you're wondering what's the reference to LEDWars in the intro of Eat This, check Larian's website:
http://www.larian.com/ledwars.php
The program FL Studio (previously known as Fruity Loops) is famous and used worldwide by many computer musicians/composers but before being a major player in the DAW business, the company Image Line was into videogames.
Back in early 90's, when games where still on floppy disks, it was common to exchange game copies in the schoolyard and of course one that got copied heavily due to its forbidden nature was Porntris. You don't have to be Einstein to understand that it's a Tetris clone smashed with pictures of pretty ladies in the background. The catch is that for each line you clear, you reveal a portion of an animated porn gif so yeah, that's better motivation than reaching some dumb highscores :o) With nowadays technology, you can play it online on archive.org, you just have to click the image, then you know the rest...
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Porntris_1993
Later on, they stroke a deal with the adult publisher "Private" (magazines and cd-roms) and released a few titles which amongst them was "Private Investigator" which has some Tex Murphy vibe with its 3D detective office and FMV sequences. But the main gameplay is classical 2D sideshooter where you can kill grannies in wheelchairs and fuck women right in the middle of action (you can even select your position). Hatred is tamed compared to it :o)
Luckily, there is a full gameplay video available on youtube to remember those good times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtVOovkFlQA
In 1998, they released "Eat This" which plays more or less like the classic "Abuse" but in a different settings. Compared to Abuse, there are some gameplay variations like the battle drone (check the annotations in the videos for that). As they own all the rights for this game, a demo is still available on their website with even some instructions on how to run it on modern computers:
http://www.image-line.com/company/eatthis/
If you just wanna see the original developer (now working fulltime on FL Studio and making some VST presets) play the game, you can check this great series of videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCDEBAD54F026F423
After this their business caught up with Fruity Loops so they stopped making videogames (except a VG version of the Flemish tv quizz "Blokken") but who knows maybe one day they will come back to show the world we're the greatest nation ^o^
PS: If you're wondering what's the reference to LEDWars in the intro of Eat This, check Larian's website:
http://www.larian.com/ledwars.php
