couldn't figure this game out as a kid, nor a teenager. finally beat it as an adult and no joke, it's hands down one of the most brilliant action/platform games ever made. this dude makes it looks so easy lol.
I couldn't figure it out as a kid either, never tried it as a teen though. I want to try it now as an adult and see how it is! I won't even watch this walkthrough because otherwise I'll just know what to do and there won't be a challenge
I remember the glitch in the game. If you faced a locked door, turned around, sprinted and turned back around as quickly as possible, you could run through the door. Made the last level very easy.
I remember playing this on the genesis when I was 7, I didn't know where to go, no explanation where to go, I couldn't find the cube for the longest time lmao, and I just ended up shooting guys in the first level then quitting. Coming back to this game as an adult. I figured out what to do and man was it rewarding! I love games like this, that don't hold your hand the whole game.
This was part of my childhood. Back went you rented games from a store. Loved this one on my sega. I would pay extra to rent it for a extended period of time. Hope everyone is having a great day!
gameplay, music, atmosphere. This game is the best. I remember playing this as a kid in the mid 90's on my mega drive and it always had a lasting effect on me. Still play it to this day on the emulator. I never actually managed to complete it until 2010.
Liam B sa W here,it’s amazing how one particular game can have such a lasting effect. I never officially got past the first level as a primary school kid, but got the cheats and marvelled at how awesome the other levels and cutscenes were. 30 years later I got the game for the iPhone and I am equally impressed how awesome the game is and thankfully I now have the skills to progress😂 amazing how a game so old could still teach a few lessons to developers today!! A game I thankfully never forgot and stayed with me and still does.
Flashback is a masterpiece until this days. A combination of a perfect sci-fi atmosphere plus stunning animation plus amazing story and game play. It’s a pity that sequel is a forgettable game.
When I was in the 6th grade, one Friday night. My parents wanted to try this one Pizza Spot. While my pops was ordering, I noticed the owners son playing this game off to the side. While we waited for the pizza, I stood there... amazed by the story and graphic this game held. I eventually bought the game, most likely from bday money. And played it, still to this day, I will always remember how beautiful this game was. I thought this was a game that no one would ever remember. But seeing this post, after searching far and wide on what this game was called, it's still amazing as I remember. The sound track is one of the best as well. Memory Lane for sure
Bro I remember this game from my uncle playing it 😂. This game looks so good for its age, especially when every other game was cartoonish child games back then
Loved it, I remember back when I was...maybe 8 or 9 we had this game for our Mega Drive. And as we had no one able to understand English (yet) - aside from the general stuff like Jump, Run and Attack - the game was always mysterious, yet mesmerizing.
@@ulysses2162 I am from Croatia and I had same "problem", I started to play when I was 3-4 years old (first on Commodore 64, then Amiga(s), and I could not understood most of games (language vise), so I had to fail try stuff 100 times before I get them right haha. I remember, most time consuming part of Flashback was those Africa, Asia, EU, USA parts, as they had most text, but as "Em", when I was 7,8,9,10, my English was 20 words, so I would just go to each continent 10 times, just random clicking stuff until I clicked EVERYTHING HAHAHAHA... -.-' :) but best gaming period of my life was Amiga times.
When I was a kid, I wasn’t entirely sure of what was going on. But these days, I do - Conrad had his memory preserved since he knew the Morphs would wipe it, and they’d been on to him when Conrad saw Morphs disguised as humans with abnormal molecular densities are planning to destroy Earth.
So many memories of this game from my childhood, nowadays I consider this a classic and this game reminds me of Blade Runner (mostly), Total Recall, They Live, 1984, Akira, and The Terminator
@@MrZillas But it had rarely been used for video games before, and such, Prince of Persia set the template for cinematic platformers. The OP even said, "the character movement was unlike any other *game* at the time."
cant remember when i first finished this game, but somewhere between 1993 or 1994. This is seriously one of the best games in the vast catalog of the megadrive/genesis and I'd put it in a list of the top 100 games ever. Addictive like hell, a engaging story and from a technical standpoint flawless. I came to play the sequel, fade to black, 1996 if i recall well. Hours and hours of fun and joy, good memories. 25 years later I wouldn't have any problem to replay the game if I still had the console.
I think you mean Lester Chaykin from Another World. Definitely not Lester the Unlikely. Lol You really don't want to compare Flashback to "Lester the Unlikely".
23:18 "What do I do here? I guess I walk over here and press the button- OH GODDAMNIT, wait, come back! Great. I guess I'll just wait for the next one. Christ, what an existence."
The Sega version is superior to the SNES version in my mind, not just because the mechanics of the game work better on that controller, but also the music for the holocube sequence at the beginning. Little details meant more to me than I realized.
@@myyoutubepage199 This man knows what's up! At the time of this games release, no console matched the pure power of the 3DO. If you wanted the R.E.A.L. experience, that's where it was!
@@Grail_Quest the 3do was the rich mans console and you get what you paid for. For the time it was the best console out there. Alot of people think that when a console does not sale its because of the games but this console was expensive for its hardware just a gaming pc is compared to a ps5 . I had 2 3dos . I had to work weekends and weekdays after school to get my first one and my second one me and my brother went half on it. I was only 13 working at a carwash. Miss those days
@@myyoutubepage199 Yes! You remember the struggle. Saw the 3DO when I was 13 too and was blown away! How could games look so great!? Had to wait 3 years until I was old enough to start working at McDonalds and saved up to buy one. It was the first console I ever bought with my own money. You never forget your first! Road Rash, Escape from Monster Manor, Shockwave, Burning Soldier, Alone in the Dark, Bust-A-Move. Great times man!
I got this for my 13th birthday (along with Alien 3 on vhs). Got to play it for 15 mins before having to go to school. Literally couldnt stop thinking about it all day until i got back home to play it again.
Used to play this game for hours, I remember it had a glitch where you, came across a locked door or even a solid wall, you could press something then run straight through it, like a ghost
1992, wow! that was a long time ago, but such a great, great game and soundtrack for it's time, even now I play it on my pc using an emulator, it has such a charm to it, thanks for doing this.
oh my god!! after so many years of trying to remember what this game was, i've finally found it!! I remember playing this game one time as a kid but it gave me a horrible nightmare that I still remember all these years later. but looking at this game as an adult i really don't know why i thought this was scary lol
I was extremely obsessed with an fascinated by this game as a kid. For some reason the atmosphere was just so intriguing to me. And it got rly hard towards the end.
orugari Because the gameplay was smoother and the music sounded way better. That rocking tune you hear when you jump down the hole with the gravity belt? Non-existent on the SNES. One of the few games that were better on the Genesis.
+Baximus That's because the SNES version was developed by Tiertex, which was a sluggish developer, while the Mega Drive version was developed by Delphine itself (they also developed the Amiga, PC and Mega-CD versions, while every single other version was developed by Tiertex). And it shows. The SNES version has inconsistent music and it's slow and sluggish as hell, especially during the cutscenes. So much for the SNES CPU or at least in Tiertex's hands.
I really appreciate the art and some of the mechanics they were trying to use, but the layout and how items blend in with the background makes you wonder how you're supposed to know what to do if you don't already know what to do, namely in the jungle level.
Those goddamned morphs! Literally hit & miss for me - I'm either very successful at killing them or down-right fucked. Their planet is the hardest level in the game so far for me, and a very long way from a save point too. :( Regardless, this game is unbelievable. I've had it since 94 :) Favourite game on the Mega Drive
I used to rent this game in 1994. forgot the title and lost track of it for over 14 years. Finally tracked it down in 2008 after searching every Genesis title one by one till I found it. Bought it on Ebay and relived my early teen years :)
As a kid I somehow managed to beat it, still don't know how exactly because English wasn't my 1st language and all I had in assistance was a small dictionary lying near me(internet wasn't a thing back then) that gave me some hints of where to go. Also the last level's ambience, that constant "cat's purring" mixed with rifle(?) shots gave me nightmares as a kid.
1:46:48 You can save the man with the explosives. Place the teleporter receiver in front of the door that's in front of the man. Then when you hit the switch to open the door; teleport; pause; select force field; and the block the shots. It does nothing and you'll receive the explosive when the final level loads. I just like to do it as an easter egg and pretend he's waiting on the ship.
HOLY SHIT I FINALLY FOUND IT!!! ALL I ever remembered of this game was random ass memory of the first like 5 minutes of that jungle area and not knowing where to go and giving up playing it forever lol...holy shit. xD I started to wonder if it was even REAL!
Took me at least three months to beat this game. It was addicting. You wanted to see what happened next. (A cross between Uncharted and Total Recall in this)
+Marcos Marin It's not teleporting. This energy spots... energy mines... whatever you want to call them, taht green flicker at the ground. Encounterd first in the Jungle. Step on it... And this is your death animation.
Such an amazing game with such a sad ending! He saves the human race only to be condemned to floating in deep space, probably for eternity or until his ship powers down and life support fails. Whichever comes first. Sad. Just like real life!
@@Bandit-Darville Hi, curiosity got the better of me. Played on the mega drive last night and you can jump/roll through the green stuff at the end, and teleport back rather than running.