Amiga Longplay - Transarctica
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2015
- Transarctica (or Arctic Baron) is a 1993 computer game made by the French company Silmarils for the Amiga and ported to the PC, Atari ST, Macintosh and Atari Falcon.
The story is based on the post-apocalyptic science fiction novel series La Compagnie des glaces by the French writer Georges-Jean Arnaud.
In the 21st century, mankind is being ravaged by the greenhouse effect. A last-ditch effort to counteract it is designed and executed. It works far too well.
Centuries if not millennia later, the planet is entirely covered in a thick, opaque cloud layer. Giant wolf packs roam the frozen wastes, and the mammoth has re-emerged from the elephant stock. Mankind ekes out a living in a few handfuls of settlements, connected by a network of massive armored trains. The network in turn is in the hands of the gargantuan Viking Union, which is merciless towards threats to its power. A few radicals, though, are willing to attempt a change, and managing to hijack a train of the Union, the Transarctica, they set out in search of the "sun".
This longplay was played using the Amiga AGA version and contains all major story elements of Transarctica like the information cities, the mammoth cemetery, Urga, Oslo etc.
If you intend to play the game yourself, here are a few tips (some may only work with the Amiga AGA version):
1. Tenders can be replaced. It is a widespread misinformation that it is impossible to replace tenders. Transarctica lets you carry up to six tenders, but that is referring to six intact tenders. Yes, you cannot get rid of destroyed tenders, but as soon as you lose tenders you can purchase new ones wherever they're available.
2. Nevertheless, it's better to avoid losing any tenders, as this might cause a bug in the game, where after a battle your lignite amount will be replaced with the amount you recovered from the enemy.
3. Your missile launcher will be available , even if it gets destroyed in a battle, or at a station. Use it as cannon fodder ;)
4. Cities to sell your stuff at a high price:
Amsterdam - Fur
Paris - Caviar
London - Antiques
Kiev - Meat
Athens - Fishing Rods
5. A nice bug during train battles. Destroy the enemy's engine and lure the enemy soldiers onto the remainings. Wait until they gathered in a nice line on the front of the train. Sometimes, when all of them arrived, they will freeze and never move again, even when attacked, so you can just blast them away with TNT
6. Having trouble winning a train fight? No problem. Always save your game right before you run into an enemy train. If you cannot defeat it, just reload your saved game, and you will end up with a different train as they are randomly generated.
7. You only need to destroy the Chernobyl NPP once. Various sources on the internet claim, that you need to destroy three specific locations of the power plant. As you can see in this longplay, I finish the game by destroying only one of the reactors.
8. Sometimes you might run into an invincible horde of wolves. They will kill half of your soldiers and slaves, but won't go away. I'm guessing, that this is somehow related to the copy protection of the game, and there is nothing you can do about this. Save your progress as often as possible, but if the wolves appear at a track that you have to take to finish the game, you're screwed. You can try to play the untouched Amiga 500 SPS version of the game and use a scan of the manual for the copy protection questions. The SPS version and the manual are available at archive.org 
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It was a great game.
Now i am 50 years old I NEVER FORGET This Amazing game
I never played this game don't know how did I miss this GEM looks like a lot of fun......
Played the hell out of it on its PC version when I was like 14-15 along with my dad!
But the Amiga music is FAR superior! Thank you for this longplay! ^^
Probably one of my top 3 favorite games of all time (and I played over thousands of them of many genres) and probably one of very first ones that I played as a kid (I watched it being played when I was like 5 yo). One revolutionary classic that never got to be remastered unfortunately (like HD-ed and all that), forgotten jewel I would say. Damn. I would easily pay 50$ for this game if remake was made nowadays. So many memories, such a great story, atmosphere and mechanics.
I wish someone could explain what is going on in terms of gameplay and mechanics in moments of the video... it's not clear how the game is played by just watching the video, it looks nice though
Great LP!
One of my favourite games, and one I still play on my Amiga :)
Merci pour cette longue vidéo de Transarctica, jeu sur lequel j'ai passé de nombreuses heures sans jamais réussir à le terminer.
Thanks for the longplay of Transarctica, game wich I passed more hours than I should be.
Greetings from France.
je ne me souviens pas de ces musiques, mis à part l'intro et le générique de fin, dans la version cd.
Les versions disquettes étaient meilleurs comme pour ishar trilogy.
Idem 😄
Thanks for posting this, I've been looking for a LP
I was fascinated by this game's visuals back then
Rewelacyjna gra 😍miałem amige 600 grałem pamiętam 🥰👍
Reminds me of Frostpunk! This could definitely use a modern remake!
or a combination of both
The train must survive...
The ambiance is definitely here, but gameplay-wise it couldn't be more different XD
It's not a remake but check out Last Train Home | Gameplay Trailer from THQ Nordic from this week
One of the best game of my childhood !!! Never forget.....More than 1 k playing in 1996 y
Great video, thank you! Amazing game, of course
Classic with impressive music
The coal stoker on the right is me at work. The stoker on the left is my coworker 😂 Why am i the only one that has to work?! Lol
These days, we have a frontline manager, a workplace supervisor, a human resource manager, and a OHS inspector all in the same room
Thanks you. I have the disks 3.5 with notice of this cool game.
One of the best games ever!
I forgot about "La Compagnie des glaces", so the main thing who came to my mind was the Snowpiercer comic...
French people really liked trains and ecological commentary in the 1980s, isn't it?
Thank you so much for sharing without commentary! Watched my childhood friend play this on PC. Why did you only use the guy on the right to shovel coal? I like the concept and atmosphere. I like the realism. You had to be careful or your boiler would explode.
You have two types of coal, anthracite for your engine and lignite as money. With the left guy you would literally burn your money. You should only do this as a last resort if you run out of anthracite.
@@nighttraplongplays9773 use "o" keyboard button to generate new messages about discovered mines, usually it happense 1 times per 3 days... m.b. its a bug in my version
I played it on my Atari TT !!
very good Classic, nice music cool graphics, like ishar trilogy
Wonder if the film snowpiercer took inspiration from this game ?
It's a french company so probably the other way around. The comic was from the 80's
It has similar concept, but probably both things are based on different sources. The game was really cool. Probably one of the most original strategy games of all time. The only flaw people were complaining about was tedious combat system. Train battle was quite slow. The graphics and artworks were fucking epic. Maybe updated version addressing the combat system would be freaking good. Such kind of retrofuturistic strategy games need to come back. There are too many fantasy and space themed games in the genre and not many ones with some postapocalyptic ideas.
@mattx5499 Your right they should remake this game.
If you didn't buy the original game with the manual, this game will be impossible to even start.......all Silmarils games except maybe Metal Mutant and Colorado suffer of this (Starblade another crazy game which was almost impossible to finish due to the complexity)
Nah. Played well after some time, not even fluent english at a time.
@@halthammerzeit I don't mean you cannot play it. But you cannot progress if you don't know what the goal is. It is the same case as Starblade. I played it for days, visiting many planets, but never got any clue about what to do with the plot (turns out now we found out you had to find a secret planet in the middle of the galaxy).
I wish you would speak and tell us about the game and your decisions
Hi! Do you still have save games for Transartica (PC)? My saves is corrupted near the final ((
Here are my save files from this longplay: we.tl/t-hLgRV2poS7
@@nighttraplongplays9773 Thx a lot :)
Runaway Train...
half of the video is loading coal since every time the time is stopped, to you almost load no coal. Sure you will save some, but you have to be loading every minute.
A bit cumbersome, but a good idea.
Could this really happen?
Clue on rails.
I knew about "Colorado" but not this game.
Ordos planet Just are in dune 2
Looks like if someone based His series and comics from here.
Wow, this is a slow game.
for lonesome men without having a woman
@@MrTiti I don’t think this game is meant for those people.
@u r Which parts are exciting?
@@georgeofhamilton i played it as a kid and now. i cannot help, but it takes away so much time and there is nothing really coming out of the game for you. it is hard work, not enjoying. a bide of time through logic, instead of a short burst of real happinnes due to ideas
Games back then like this were slower for the more intelligent amongst us. It is essentially similar to Civilization or Pirates. Early 90s games are still unsurpassed in quality. People had different mindsets back then and it reflected in art and computer games design.