kerzain
5269
Gah! I remember that face! I was working at an electronics stores in the mid 90s and we had a couple of these staring at me on the PC game shelf. Oh good god, I can’t remember the name.
It was something like:
“Titanic… Something?”
I remember a boat and ice bergs. Arg, my brain.
Prisoner of Ice was the name I think.
Yes! I think that’s it! Shadow of the Comet was the first game, right?
Pod
5272
Got it! (Which is a shame, as I had a “helpful” reveal lined up exposing the boat and some ice bergs :))
I’ve not played this, but have played Shadow of The Comet, which was an interesting adventure game. (It was against a time limit, and you ‘drove’ the character around rather than the genre convention of point-and-clicking, if I remember correctly?)
The only reason I remember it is a company I worked for in 1996 were agents for the developers negotiating with publishers. The game sat behind me on the shelf at work.
I’ll see about getting a new cover up later today!
Rock8man
5274
Thanks for revealing it the way you did. When I look at the complete cover, There’s such a heavy emphasis on the book and the face, I would have missed the tentacles coming out of the crate.
I actually have Prisoner of Ice behind me right now:)
Recently replayed it, not that good in 2020. Still interesting at times though. The first part with a submarine in Antartica was cool.
Was I-Motion an Infogrames imprint? They seem to share a logo. Don’t have any recollection of that game though.
Pod
5279
I hadn’t noticed it wasn’t Infogrames! It’s only the US cover that has that, all the others are Infogrames.
Mobygames has this to say about I-Motion:
I•Motion, Inc. may have been a publishing label for Infogrames in North America. Located in Santa Monica, California, its logo appears on game covers for United States releases dating from 1992 (Alone in the Dark) through 1996 (Time Gate: Knight Chase).
The label was linked almost entirely with Infogrames when credited on game cover art. However, in 1995 I•Motion published Titus’s game Virtual Chess and Artdink’s C.E.O. and Infogrames wasn’t mentioned.
Rock8man
5281
I’m still not sure what I’m looking at. These are pretty abstract excerpts we’re seeing.
It’s a pretty abstract box cover.
Nope! Right neighborhood though.
No guests - not even a 7th.
robc04
5287
That was going to be my guess so I’ll say Phantasmagoria
No, but also a good guess.
I realized something about this particular game that makes me think no one will ever get it, so I’m going to throw a Hail Mary.
