YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO GET IT UNTIL LATER! Maybe I should have revealed a palm tree like I originally planned, before I switched to a radar because people were saying Descent and Comanche etc?
(ps, the watermark was obviously not present in the original. pps what a waste of hud space that camouflage is. ppps Actually is it even camouflage? It looks more like a microscope image of evil bacteria)
I actually had guessed that game for another one a while back, and I was trying to remember its name (which is pretty generic, really) on the first frame. It’s a game that sticks to you once you played it, like Herzog Zwei!
There is an excuse for the cropped HUD: you aren’t supposed to play the game alone, but in split-screen while punching your friend!
For years I simply knew it as “The game where the jeeps tyres popped on water” *. Then, after repeatedly googling, finding out the name and forgetting it again, I learn that it’s the sequel to Fire Power. So I can vaguely remember the name now as it’s Return (to) Fire (Power). Apparently the designer of both those games is ‘Baron R. K. Von Wolfsheild’ !
I come out of all this, filled with regrets: if only I had figured I could become a millionaire making CPUs from scrap when I was 16! I take comfort knowing that I still come up with better fake names in my RPGs.
Honestly it was the right eye (the Clown’s left eye, I guess). Something about it was super memorable. I also don’t like clowns, so I remember where I see them, I guess. :)
And here I thought I was being clever by choosing a screenshot with a clown, as that wasn’t a very big part of this game.
I recently replayed this game (I think GOG or Steam (maybe both?) have it) and I really had memories that were far fonder of it than the actual game ended up being, I bought this and Myst on the same day I bought my first CD-Rom drive. One of those games is a classic…it’s not this one ;)