Another World Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS]: Face the unknown perils of an alien world in one of the most beautiful games ever made. Read the video description for my review!
I must have watched the first 5 minutes of this game 20 times - all I had was the PC demo at the time and it looked incredible but I never found out what happened next ... until now!
Parents are young, my brother and I get up in the middle of the night, put a blanket around the door so no light will seep thru the door. We would play it until I fall sleep watching my brother play. Childhood is somerhing else. Even when I was a child, I was aware of this. Good times, this calms me down.
So glad I found it back. My chidlhood, in my friend Omar's room, playing on his Amiga. We were amazed by Another World, Im sure its part of the reasons why my life has been so fullfilled by visions, other worlds, other dimensions, shamanism, second states etc etc etc. The great escape.
You forgot a death sequence that almost nobody knew about! After the cage falls and your friend leaves, try standing still for several minutes! There is a surprise that has been there for 30 years!
The hero is a white male. He would have to be replaced by a Diversity. Also the alien population lacks diversity also. Just seems all wrong for a modern movie.
I only recently noticed that this version (just like the Atari St one that I noticed years ago) lacks a whole sequence starting @19:00. On the PC/Snes/Genesis versions, your alien friend actually doesn't drop you in front of the tank but rather in a different, upper part of the building and from there you have a pretty decent and intense sub-chapter to complete before you finally get to the tank.
I still remember (probably same year it came out) seeing the same intro those with also showing part of 1st level on a window of a computer shop, and I had still C64 back than. Fluency of animation of main character so amazed me, it was nothing like that I've seen before. As a long time computer user and a gamer, similar experience I had like this are extremely rare. Well done Chahi.
Yeah it's actually more possible to do that nowadays than it was back then. Free game engines mean you don't have to write your own in assembly like Eric had to XD
Many yeears ago.. I remember getting stuck in the underground tunnels. Then some other day I played again and this time passed the tunnels. I got inspired and finished the whole game and called my friend to tell him about it :) The feeling of playing this game is magical in my memory. 💖💖💖
Holy crap, at 19:02 it skips a whole massive section in the city that's in the DOS version. Amiga version got jipped! I guess he was able to add it for the DOS release after he finished the Amiga one.
@@Domarius64 Not really, you have to use SoundBlaster 1 or the sound is full left or full right, don't remember, so sb1(mono) is the way. And the intro is a crackling fest, in DOSBox again, to be clear. I should mess with other options, no MT-32 support so I don't really care anyway, Amiga it is
"My inspiration for the art style came partly from the technical choice to use polygons for the graphics and also from my love of fantasy illustrators such as Michael Whelan and Richard Corben. The Amiga was a revolution for me; its power and versatility allowed me to create Another World in a very fluid, improvisational way. I would often randomly sketch and explore different combinations of pixels to find the right feeling for a face or a shape. Deluxe Paint allowed me to do this very quickly. In fact, the software was so ahead of its time we were still using it on Heart of Darkness in 1997." -- Eric Chahi, designer, programmer and graphic artist (Another World/Out of this World, Amiga)
I tried it on the A500 mini, I had to replay the first seconds of the game for about 30 times. I couldn’t get past those snails while I was jumping. My timing was off. Now I see that I have to stamp on it. Dammmm.
I also had no idea you could just kick the slugs... just played through it on a PS5 at normal. Died a bunch of times on the slugs when trying to jump over them and finally succeeded. The controls are so sluggish tbh, pun intended. Puzzle solving needs a definitive mindset and a bit of knowledge how these games generally work.
Hmmm... experiment gone wrong, opens portal to another dimension, lands on alien planet. HALF LIFE? That cave ceiling monster with the tentacles also occurs in HL
I remember playing it around 1993 or so, being a pre-schooler. I had NO IDEA how to play this game - I think I managed to get as far as the big beast runaway in the beginning xD
Sooo much of an obvious influence on Ico. The fact that a game even comparable to that one was released in the same year as Super Mario World and Sonic 1 is just nuts.
Probably the first cinematic platformer/adventure game was Karateka, then Prince of Persia and then Another World. The difference is that Another World had more sophisticated animations and cutscenes never seen before. And it was made in the year when most people still had 8-bit computers and consoles unable to render any sophisticated animation.
AMAZING! OH THE MEMORIES! after prince of persia! So groundbreaking at the time, an class soundtrack! born 74 these games were the soundtrack to my childhood !!! ONE LOVE!!!
how could this game with those kinds of visuals have been created in 1991 like why didnt diffrent people who made games also use such good graphics for that time ?
5,43: "Albersta, Albersta.. Wachenda, Wachenda" 😂😂😂 he is clearly calling for help and showing that Lester is trying to scape but I would like to know what did he exactly said
Yes, you get to control the buttons - the only one you need to press is the top-left green (which activates the ejector). The rest fire various laser cannons and missiles into the arena - it's a rare moment of humour as you're the one with all the power at that moment.
I never knew the name of this game, only remembered the sounds made by the characters.. Didn't worked well, I bought it (diskettes) in argentina... I saw it in a MOMA Ted talk about video games as art... I can't believe this.. The internet is awesome
Love this game and would love to finally complete it in this lifetime, but I just cannot get past the two big bastards that get you in the pincer movement at 15:24.....looks easy in the video, but it always takes too long for me to set up the forcefields and power up the gun for the big shot and I get zapped in mid-action..... :(
4:26-Wait. Wait a flipping minute. That sound the beast makes. It's the same as that tunnel worm in Alone in the Dark! That game used that creepy-ass sound AFTER Another world did?
I'm a bit late to the party here, but I was wondering something. How did you capture the game footage? I'd like to do some Amiga playthroughs for my channel, but can't seem to capture games full-screen.
True, this video is not 50 fps as it claims in the title, it's 25 fps, but Amiga could work in 25 interlaced mode if a game was so coded, which is basically 50 fps at half resolution...
@@maricallo6143And was it ever really used? I just get a bit grumpy by all these retro gaming videos that proclaim 50 or 60 FPS before that was ever a thing. Most of these games are probably only even rendering something 17 FPS, which is enough to establish basic motion that was smooth enough for the time.
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Another World Longplay (Amiga) [50 FPS]: Face the unknown perils of an alien world in one of the most beautiful games ever made.
Read the video description for my review!
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Honestly but far the best amiga game. It just oozes class
My sharooba
that's not a game. it's a masterpiece.
indeed
several games have DIRECT references to this game, to mention 'Black the Fall' and 'Little Nightmares', perhaps showing some respect in such a way
Pssshhh
Yes
It builds such suspension right from the start
This game's art direction aged weirdly well, it still looks like a modern indie title
Thats because indies copy these old games like the hipsters they try to be
Boomer
wtf
It's a Masterpiece
It was done with vectors, I think that is a huge part of it
The game was - still is - amazing. And even after so many years it STILL looks great!
no it does not look great come on
It has a unique look and style. I still think it is a very good looking game till this day.
As a game developer in 2022 it amazes me how complex a game from 30 years ago can be. Those developers really were something else
*developer
@@chunkymilk ?
@@milesromanus7041 eric chahi did everything except for the music.
@@chunkymilk oh, damn
That looks like a lot of work for a single guy
@@milesromanus7041 definitely. took him 2 years. genius.
Designed by: Eric Chahi
Programmed by: Eric Chahi
Artwork: Eric Chahi
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@@dawids1979 why noone has upvoted this? this is amazing!
Feelings: Eric Chahi
A Eric Chahi Game
Thanks to: My self
Played on my Amiga more then 30 years ago and still remember this game
Masterclass in art. How to create such an atmosphere in 8 shades of blue, grey and a splash of red
Bob Ross would have been proud of him. Just would have asked for some tiny little trees.
It's truly amazing!
I must have watched the first 5 minutes of this game 20 times - all I had was the PC demo at the time and it looked incredible but I never found out what happened next ... until now!
same, I Had this game on PC too.... never got beyond the arena scene because the game froze all the time.
Same!
Parents are young, my brother and I get up in the middle of the night, put a blanket around the door so no light will seep thru the door. We would play it until I fall sleep watching my brother play. Childhood is somerhing else. Even when I was a child, I was aware of this. Good times, this calms me down.
I'm glad you had a good childhood.
One of the favorite games of my childhood. The puzzles and action-packed scenes were great. Even the story was well told, all without saying a word.
A movie about this game would be bad ass
Who stayed til the end? Death sequences are awesome :)
I remember finishing it... endless sleepless nights
Still one of the best intros in a game ever (and cool looking!)
So glad I found it back. My chidlhood, in my friend Omar's room, playing on his Amiga. We were amazed by Another World, Im sure its part of the reasons why my life has been so fullfilled by visions, other worlds, other dimensions, shamanism, second states etc etc etc. The great escape.
You forgot a death sequence that almost nobody knew about! After the cage falls and your friend leaves, try standing still for several minutes! There is a surprise that has been there for 30 years!
What is/was it?
Really cool game for it's time, I'm surprised someone hasn't made a movie based on it yet.
The hero is a white male. He would have to be replaced by a Diversity. Also the alien population lacks diversity also. Just seems all wrong for a modern movie.
I only recently noticed that this version (just like the Atari St one that I noticed years ago) lacks a whole sequence starting @19:00. On the PC/Snes/Genesis versions, your alien friend actually doesn't drop you in front of the tank but rather in a different, upper part of the building and from there you have a pretty decent and intense sub-chapter to complete before you finally get to the tank.
This was/is the absolute PINNACLE of Amiga gaming.
one of my favorite games, music is great too
Yeah, the music is awesome....
I still remember (probably same year it came out) seeing the same intro those with also showing part of 1st level on a window of a computer shop, and I had still C64 back than. Fluency of animation of main character so amazed me, it was nothing like that I've seen before. As a long time computer user and a gamer, similar experience I had like this are extremely rare. Well done Chahi.
Best intro of a videogame ever..
Watch the trailer for eternal castle
@@alainmartinez6798 you compare a trailer of a game made in 2019 to something that was made more than 30 years ago in a pair of floppies..ok..
Last time I checked, "ever" includes a little more than 30 years @@Trikipum
I remember playing this classic game on the Amiga 500 when i was 8 or 9 years old. It's still awesome!
The era when one man could design and program a game, do all the visuals and still make a rocking game....
stardew valley, LISA, return of the obra dinn, undertale, axiom verge, papers please, spelunky, thomas was alone
all released after 2010
Yeah it's actually more possible to do that nowadays than it was back then. Free game engines mean you don't have to write your own in assembly like Eric had to XD
One of the greatest intros ever
It is a playable graphic novel. Excellent!
Many yeears ago.. I remember getting stuck in the underground tunnels. Then some other day I played again and this time passed the tunnels. I got inspired and finished the whole game and called my friend to tell him about it :) The feeling of playing this game is magical in my memory. 💖💖💖
Holy crap, at 19:02 it skips a whole massive section in the city that's in the DOS version. Amiga version got jipped! I guess he was able to add it for the DOS release after he finished the Amiga one.
Sound and music suck in the DOS version, in DOSBox at least
@@stephanemignot100 it's all digital sound, it's identical
@@Domarius64 Not really, you have to use SoundBlaster 1 or the sound is full left or full right, don't remember, so sb1(mono) is the way. And the intro is a crackling fest, in DOSBox again, to be clear. I should mess with other options, no MT-32 support so I don't really care anyway, Amiga it is
Seeing this intro for the first time on my cousin's Amiga, blew me away. One of my favorite gaming memories.
Daaaaamn, cutscenes and everything
SOOO COOL! As a Kid, I never got very far at all in this game.
Thx Mr Éric Chahi
Just slapped me in face and took me back to being a kid wow memories
As for me, the *best sound* version is here, on Amiga - so crispy and laconic. 💪🔥
The icon of sifi games.
Most powerful (in game) gun ever, btw.
I was a kid when this game came to amiga -- never finished it and it was a great pleasure now to watch it finally! Thanks! Cheers from Finland.
"My inspiration for the art style came partly from the technical choice to use
polygons for the graphics and also from my love of fantasy illustrators such
as Michael Whelan and Richard Corben. The Amiga was a revolution for me;
its power and versatility allowed me to create Another World in a very fluid,
improvisational way. I would often randomly sketch and explore different
combinations of pixels to find the right feeling for a face or a shape. Deluxe
Paint allowed me to do this very quickly. In fact, the software was so ahead
of its time we were still using it on Heart of Darkness in 1997."
-- Eric Chahi, designer, programmer and graphic artist (Another World/Out of this World, Amiga)
Imagine this as a movie nowadays😮 this game was the toughest i ever played on the amiga 500 when i was 8years old
I remember my cousins had this game but I couldn't remember it. I finally found it after several years! Looks just how I remember!
Talk about being back memories. I completed this in the end and the finishing scene is incredible
I’d love to see a movie made based on this game
I tried it on the A500 mini, I had to replay the first seconds of the game for about 30 times. I couldn’t get past those snails while I was jumping. My timing was off. Now I see that I have to stamp on it. Dammmm.
I also had no idea you could just kick the slugs... just played through it on a PS5 at normal. Died a bunch of times on the slugs when trying to jump over them and finally succeeded. The controls are so sluggish tbh, pun intended. Puzzle solving needs a definitive mindset and a bit of knowledge how these games generally work.
I must agree with Retrogaming. This game has been and always will be my favorite game. I think it was released onto one of the consoles at one time.
This and flashback .
Nice cut scenes at the end 😂
Thank you so much... I loved this hard game
Hmmm... experiment gone wrong, opens portal to another dimension, lands on alien planet. HALF LIFE? That cave ceiling monster with the tentacles also occurs in HL
Que des souvenirs en famille autour de ce jeu 🤍🤍🤍 merci
Wow thanks for this what a game I loved this, BASS and Flashback as a kid
My childhood, thanks for posting this video
This shit blew me away back in the day and it still does
Thank you for this video. Gave a pretty look at the game!
I would watch my cousin last century play this game. It was pretty cool. Watching it now and thinking I am back in the 1990’s on a Saturday evening.
meraviglioso, un gioco che ti faceva "vivere" veramente un'altra dimensione. Che nostalgia
Remember playing this, never did finish it, didn't realize it was so short lol
I remember when i watched this game at my friends house. He had a IBM PS2. I was really amazed!
This could be the greatest game ever...the graphics aren't pixels..its all polygons ...a true masterpiece.
incredible game for the Amiga, never reached far but when i looked this video i was so impressed what the game was about.
I remember playing it around 1993 or so, being a pre-schooler. I had NO IDEA how to play this game - I think I managed to get as far as the big beast runaway in the beginning xD
Sooo much of an obvious influence on Ico. The fact that a game even comparable to that one was released in the same year as Super Mario World and Sonic 1 is just nuts.
and all that without any kind of hud overlay or any distracting thing. loved that game, though it took ages to uncover some things. love(d) it. a lot.
That game felt like a flash game
oh, man
that's a... flashback
If only I could experience the revolution this game was then, with todays games.
Im almost certain that the Oddworld game series was inspired by this!
Probably the first cinematic platformer/adventure game was Karateka, then Prince of Persia and then Another World. The difference is that Another World had more sophisticated animations and cutscenes never seen before. And it was made in the year when most people still had 8-bit computers and consoles unable to render any sophisticated animation.
AMAZING! OH THE MEMORIES! after prince of persia! So groundbreaking at the time, an class soundtrack! born 74 these games were the soundtrack to my childhood !!! ONE LOVE!!!
Played on Genesis and SNES. It was an amazing game when it came out.
how could this game with those kinds of visuals have been created in 1991 like why didnt diffrent people who made games also use such good graphics for that time ?
5,43: "Albersta, Albersta.. Wachenda, Wachenda" 😂😂😂 he is clearly calling for help and showing that Lester is trying to scape but I would like to know what did he exactly said
I remember... as kids we called this: "the game with the pepsi" 1:58
Nothing like playing this as an 11 year old at night with the lights off...
Had this on Sega Megadrive 32 Bit Console.
Interesting. What is happening when they drive the tank into the coliseum? Are you controlling what buttons he's pushing?
Yes, you get to control the buttons - the only one you need to press is the top-left green (which activates the ejector). The rest fire various laser cannons and missiles into the arena - it's a rare moment of humour as you're the one with all the power at that moment.
I never knew the name of this game, only remembered the sounds made by the characters.. Didn't worked well, I bought it (diskettes) in argentina... I saw it in a MOMA Ted talk about video games as art... I can't believe this.. The internet is awesome
Love this game and would love to finally complete it in this lifetime, but I just cannot get past the two big bastards that get you in the pincer movement at 15:24.....looks easy in the video, but it always takes too long for me to set up the forcefields and power up the gun for the big shot and I get zapped in mid-action..... :(
😂 The slapfight at 21:45 was hilarious. Honorable mentions included endless lasers & rolling around through tight spaces
4:26-Wait. Wait a flipping minute. That sound the beast makes. It's the same as that tunnel worm in Alone in the Dark! That game used that creepy-ass sound AFTER Another world did?
I'm a bit late to the party here, but I was wondering something. How did you capture the game footage? I'd like to do some Amiga playthroughs for my channel, but can't seem to capture games full-screen.
I wonder if they flew to France. That's probably what happened.
I videogame di una volta in confronto a quelli di oggi non sono niente, ma a quei tempi erano bellissimi
Great video quality! Would you be okay with me using your ending sequence for one of my next retro game music videos and adding my piano cover to it?
I wonder why they removed that random beetle from the first level in later versions of the game.
Removed the whole animation to make room for the new levels on the future ports
The ending felt a bit weird as if the game was only an experiment.
Good and advanced for its age though. Despite what today's youngsters say.
6:02 what is said there, always thought it sounded like my toolbox
We used to mimic this sound in high school when this game was brand new. We'd say something that sounded like 'Might-suuu-bah'
God, I remember playing this back in the day on my Atari ST....
What does the alien say at 6:00? :o)
Avesta voochella ! (July 2019) :-)
partivce accelarators, chemtrails, this game has it all...never made it past the first monster tho lol
So it was "Matsuba" all along.
Since the developer was French, I think he said "moi tu vas" which is like " me you go".
What happened with music 😢
One of the greats.
Way better than flashback
31 years later... I know I wasted all that time and missed this ending? Haha...
"Back to you, pal!"
Beautiful game!
I have played this game on NOKIA，my memories！
6:01 - My toolbar!
Why the 50 FPS notice? Isn't the Amiga only pumping out 25 FPS, as is PAL standard?
True, this video is not 50 fps as it claims in the title, it's 25 fps, but Amiga could work in 25 interlaced mode if a game was so coded, which is basically 50 fps at half resolution...
@@maricallo6143And was it ever really used? I just get a bit grumpy by all these retro gaming videos that proclaim 50 or 60 FPS before that was ever a thing. Most of these games are probably only even rendering something 17 FPS, which is enough to establish basic motion that was smooth enough for the time.
@@johnknight9150 I believe platformers and side-scrolling games made the most use of it....
Had this on my a600 completed it too
The slug kicks 😍
I was 15 at the time, how was I supposed to know this all?:)
@TMoD7007 😂😂😂 me too
Trial and error.
cult but very short game - total 26 minute on all walkthrow!
Это была шикарная игра!