CAPTAIN BLOOD | The Future Hits the Shelves in 1988 

Captain Blood was my favorite game on my Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Still is

Great video! I never was aware of this artistic marvel, because i never liked the name, so i never looked deeply into this game. But thank you for making a separate episode specific for this game! I think this is one of your best videos. I like your "special effects".

😎 I enjoy his laid back style and overall quality of his videos.

It’s interesting how this game uses fractals so much to draw identifiable things like planets, mountains, and explosions, I’m used to them being used for more abstract things. Also having music by Jean Michel Jarre is neato

What a fascinating and beautiful looking game! Great camera work too!

Dropping the disk in just for some Jarre music was also a thing.

Still have great respect for this game after all these years, a timeless masterpiece of digital 80s art in my opinion. Did a lot of interesting things that haven’t been repeated really. The phonics of the glyph driven language of course, not even implemented in any of the ports from ST. But even the crash of the Oorx in the fractal landscape does something to throw the monitor sync off, like you (Blood) really lose the remote connection to it. You can see it happening in the video, it also causes modern scan converters like the OSSC to drop sync for a second when it occurs.

This is some quality video documentation of original hardware. Great tip on using an android app to eliminate flicker 10/10

I'd love to see a modern developer try to create something similar to this that retains the retro aesthetic. Sounds like a Devolver kind of thing

Captain Blood was among a number of games I used to love playing when visiting my Aunt and Uncle and playing on their Atari stfm. Captain Blood, Defender of the Crown, Starwars, Barbarian, Terrorpods and Startrek Rebel Universe.

Love this video. Loved the game but never understood it well. I will be revisiting

I remember this game on the c64, I thought is was impressive at the time but could not understand what I had to do. I would wonder the universe for hours. Old times when we pirate games and had no manuals. This was a game that needed a manual (surely in the box) or internet which we didn't have in 1988

Cracking game! Cracking video review! I had this back in the day on the Atari520STFM just re-ordeted the big box for my restored Atari. Thanks for reminding me. 👍

Great video, I like your style and approach, more on personal connection to the games rather than a technical dissection of it. It is refreshing! I played Captain Blood on my 520 STFM from the Precious Metal compilation. I was like you completely immersed,and mesmerised by the language system, I haven't seen anything like it ever since then I think. It did not feel like a dialog through a tree of multiple choice of answers, which many games still use even today. It really felt like like you were talking to sentient beings. I never understood why people find this game weird or hard to understand, when most play much more complicated games like Dungeon Master or Populous and find it completely normal. Captain Blood was easier to grasp for me than these games... Maybe that says something about me, I don't know 😅

Funny... I heard the music on a demoscene program but didn't realize it was from a game! This game does look really cool and I like hearing your personal connection to it. Very well done video

Reminds me a little of Rescue on Fractalus. But given a whole new dimension. I had it for tye Amiga back then but didn't get far. Sounds like the ST version is the best. Professional quality review BTW, nicely done and thank you much!

And now we have "Scorn". Seriously, Captain Blood should me remade for VR. The closest feel to Captain Blood in VR is : A Rogue Escape VR. I think you forgot to mention that the music is composed by Jean-Michel Jarre. Just listen to this on RU-vid "Ethnicolor (Remastered)" at 7:00 by Jean-Michel Jarr,e this is the original music that was digitized for the game. And the voice sample in the music is from an affrican tribe, there is a video on youtube that show how he sampled it.

On the St Exxos games were some of my favorites. Good sounds, great visuals and they were a bit weird which I loved :)

It was my favorite game on CPC. Then came No Man's Sky and I couldn't help but think the devs must have been fans of Captain Blood. The original version of NMS has very similar gameplay mechanics.

I never really made it very far in Captain Blood back when I first played it on Amiga in the early '90s. It was fascinating, but too complex for the tween me.

Very good production. Might try it on an emulator. Thanks

The arrows have nothing to do with overheating AFAIK. They indicate you are detected by the planet's defence systems, which can be avoided by staying low and slow. And your version seems to have an issue with your hardware/TOS configuration bc that hand should not be shaking that much that early (which is a known issue on emulators).

so this is a tutorial, sort of like the film The Last Starfighter? This game looks highly impressive, and a bit terrifying.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rDLUVaqCP0A.html This is the original song by Jean-Michel Jarre that was digitized for the game.

Crt rulez!

How many 1435s did this game destroy with that damage hit flash?

I'm interested in the game, nice that you covered it. But those shaky shots of a keyboard and constant shaky zooming to some mess of pixels is not very good to show the actual subject here.. too much "effects" for my liking.

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