dinosaurgerms, 4 months ago

I can't believe I've never featured a laserdisc game before?? Anyway, "Firefox" serves as an origin story for the Firefox web browser, which sees the plucky application commanding a hypersonic jet and duking it out with the likes Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Wow!

dinosaurgerms, 4 months ago

... okay, terrible joke aside, it's based on a Clint Eastwood movie I never heard of where I think he, like, flies a jet, or something

dinosaurgerms, 4 months ago

I feel like this sort of game works best with animated footage (Dragon's Lair, Road Blaster/Road Avenger), since there's less of an "uncanny" vibe to the whole thing. Still, "Firefox" looks pretty impressive for its time, esp. compared to stuff like "Astron Belt" (below)

Gif from "Astron Belt" (gameplay, full-motion video). The player controls a sprite image of a spaceship that is (kinda crudely) superimposed on laserdisc video of space ships. The player "shoots" one of the space ships, which immediately causes the laserdisc video to alternate to a gigantic (stock) explosion.

dinosaurgerms, 4 months ago

You vs the experimental hypersonic fighter jet she told you not to worry about

Gif from "Firefox" (cutscene, full-motion video). High up in the atmosphere, a fighter jet zooms from out of frame into the frame. At the same time, another fighter jet (this one clearly a sprite superimposed on the full-motion video) slides into the opposite side of the frame, following the first jet.

dinosaurgerms, 4 months ago

When you beat the game, you're promised "a cold one" when you get home. If this game came out twenty years later, I would assume this was a Homestar Runner reference

Hundstrasse, 4 months ago

@dinosaurgerms I'm so suggestible . It's impossible to read that now without hearing it in StrongBad's voice.