Flashback: The Quest for Identity
Throughout the 20th century, an unprecedented political and economic crisis afflicted Earth, leading to the systematic disabling of it's programme to conquer outer space through lack of funding. The highest…
Flashback: The Quest for Identity is an adventure developed by Delphine Software, released 1 December 1992 on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Atari Jaguar, Sega CD and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
What Flashback: The Quest for Identity is
Flashback: The Quest for Identity is an adventure game developed by Delphine Software and released in 1992. It was published by Tec Toy. It is available on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Atari Jaguar, Sega CD, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Famicom, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, DOS, Mac and Philips CD-i.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Throughout the 20th century, an unprecedented political and economic crisis afflicted Earth, leading to the systematic disabling of it's programme to conquer outer space through lack of funding. The highest priority now was to carryout research into new energy sources, preservation of the enviro- ment and maintenance of the cultural heritage. However, at the dawn of the 21st century, provision of considerable funds from an unknown source released by the politicians of the new, unified government, permitted a return to the space research programme. The conquest began gradually with the construction of huge, manned artificial satellites. Several lunar bases were created with the view to…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Flashback: The Quest for Identity holds a critic score of 35 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1992 averaged 67, so it scored 32 points below the year average. Players rate it 59, 24 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Flashback: The Quest for Identity launched on 1 December 1992, within three weeks of Streets of Rage 2 and Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Streets of Rage 2, Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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