When I was a kid I was a big fan of B movies and Them was one of them. I never owned an Amiga but I had a C64 or a 386 when I went to a friends place who had It Came from the Desert, and I immediately wondered if it was about giant ants since those came from the desert in Them! I think you said It Came From the Desert is more like a sequel to Them!, but actually its more like a retelling of the first half of Them!, as after they destroy the queens nest in the desert in Them! they find out a some new queens has already left, with one queen getting in a fight at sea with a battle ship and another flown to the city where they have to get the military to get them out of the sewers. Sorry, I should have mentioned 'spoilers' for anyone that hasn't seen a 60 year old movie yet... although I'm guessing anyone watching this video has as they're probably fans of It Came From the Desert. Aside from the Red Alert reference, there is also a fairly significant game reference in Space Quest 4 called It came for Dessert in the software bargain bin... which is funny because Space Quest 4 for the Amiga is one of the worst ports of any game ever made, but its all in good fun. So, I feel your video skipped over a few reasonably high level parts of the Cinemaware and It Came From the Desert story as I'm about to explain. So, firstly, you sort of skimmed over any reference to Defender of the Crown, another massive Cinemaware hit and its relevance will become significant in a moment. As we all know, Defender of the Crown really put Cinemaware on the map, it had an okay Amiga version, and a superb C64 version. It was later remastered by Cinemaware who had been fighting with Commodore over getting Compact Disks onto the platform, and Commodore were dragging their feat. So, through much tenacity they got a release for Defender of the Crown on CD, which is notable because 1. it was the second game CD ever released for computers in North America 2. it was the first ever game CD released for MS-DOS, with the first disk being The Manhole on Mac. This is all back in 1988 So, Cinemaware decided to capitalise on this new technology they had fought so hard to get their foot in the door for. Now, Defender of the Crown mostly changed by having a redone CD redbook audio orchestral backing track, and Cinemaware wanted to get into the multimedia computing industry (which probably was not yet a word at the time). So they went back to It Came From the Desert to give it live action scenes as part of a CD-ROM remaster. So they had actors reprising roles from It Came From the Desert characters, made recorded voice audio tracks etc So you might ask yourself "where is it? Why haven't I played this remaster?". Again, this is the INTERESTING part of the story of It Came From the Desert. In the end the game was only released for the Turbografx 16 which had nearly no marketshare in any western country. After it turned out that being THE pioneer in games featuring live action video was the most expensive thing a computer game company could do in 1989 and despite some limited success selling traditional games, Cinemaware had to surrender to a 20% buy in from NEC who had then insisted on the formerly platform agnostic game would be exclusive to their hardware. And because the Turbografx only had an 8 bit CPU rather than the 16/32 bit found in an Amiga or an IBM PC compatible, the console wasn't fast enough to run the original game, so it had to be simplified down. Not to mention, the colour depth of the Turbografx paled in comparison to the VGA standard the game had been made for. So, with lacklustre sales on their most expensive project to date, Cinemaware had no choice but to dissolve the business and sell off its technologies. It Came From the Desert went from one of the companies best selling products to the product that ultimately caused them to have to close up shop. So.... I guess my comment is that the story of It Came From the Desert is really the story about the the challenges of the beginning of that tumultuous era in computing where compact disks and high definition storage were poised to reinvent the computing industry.... but in order to find any of that information you really have to read your video's comments now.
You would probably have a lot more engagement if you had better mics. You both sound like you are in a cardboard tube with a mouth full of marbles to the point where I actually had to stop the audio to write this comment before turning it off.
