Game: Lemmings [H.264] (9.23 MB) [DivX] (9.24 MB)
Developer: DMA Design
Publisher: Psygnosis
Released: 1991

Lemmings, those lovely little blue and green critters.

The idea was to guide, the required number of lemmings, safely to the level exit.

To accomplish this, you had a variety of different roles that they could be assigned, such as digger, floater, climber, blockers and others. The lemmings would just keep on walking one particular direction and just bounce off obstructions unless you changed their role. To make it that bit more difficult, the roles available were limited and differed for each level. This spawned a number of sequels and also quite a few “rip-offs”.

Awesome game! Short, simple and effective intro.

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Game: Cannon Fodder [H.264] (12.57 MB) [DivX] (14.3 MB)
Developer: Sensible Software
Publisher: Virgin Interactive
Released: 1993

Awesome point-and-click game. Simple yet very effective concept.

Intro was very simple, but very effective and the soundtrack was very, very catchy. “Stoo” does look too much like Elvis as well.

“War…has never been so much fun!”

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Game: Another World [H.264] [DivX]
Developers: Delphine Software
Publisher: US Gold
Released: 1991

A nice atmospheric, scene setting intro to a truly ground-breaking game.

In some ways a very similar idea to the demo State of the Art because it seems to be completely vector-based animation (I’m sure someone will tell me differently, if it’s the case), but without all the other clever stuff from State of the Art.

Update (14/04/2006): Another World has actually been updated with better graphics (only for the PC sadly) [res. upto 1280×800] and can be purchased for the lovely price of 7 EUR. Get a demo of it here.

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From scouting round the various forums that my site is mentioned, there has been quite a few people hoping for a “Game Intro” podcast.

Seeing as my host (Servage) has kindly tripled my disk space and added an extra 50GB onto my monthly bandwidth I thought this would be an apt time to begin the Game Intro Podcast for all those people who desire such a thing.

I will be making a completely separate feed available, so that the Games/Demos can remain separate…watch this space.