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HIBERNATED 1 (Amiga/C64)

HIBERNATED 1

Almost a year ago, in the Italian version keeps on drifting through the cosmic of RetroMagazine, we published a in- void, which is something it seems to depth insight into this game by Stefan be doing for thousands of years now. Vogt and Pond Software. Back then This is a tomb in-between the stars, the choice was made to “only” review which Olivia has to enter to extricate the unboxing of the physical edition, herself from this interstellar trap. Io, since the game is a text-adventure the navigation robot of the Polarisand, as such, it is kind of difficult to 7, is probably her only friend. Far review visually. That physical edition away from home and surrounded by was just way too good to go unnoticed death and decay, she found the answer since it basically contains formats to one of the greatest questions of and media for anything in the late mankind. Are we alone? The answer 80s/early 90s: tapes (yes, tapes!), is: yes, out here, we are more alone 5.25" and 3.5" floppies, and even a than ever." Micro SD card, just in case you were The adventure dates back to 2018 out of physical disk drives to try the and, one year later, Pond Software game on and you were in need of published an add-on for the game using an emulator. (named Eight Feet Under) unveiling As Tony wrote back then, it is sure further details on the story. The game difficult to write about a text adventure, is available on itch.io but, despite it but I recently finished this game and being a stand-alone product, it is thus I simply had to report back. strongly advised to play the main Actually, in the last couple of years, adventure first, to avoid spoilers. For I did write about text-adventures, the same reason, I won’t delve further namely Zork and Leather Goddesses into the story, but let me just say that of Phobos, but this is the first time a sequel has recently been announced. that I review a C64 game (meaning I really can’t wait to play it. What that I played it on a real C64, but that about you? Just be patient, and keep was just my personal choice). the flame alive. I think that the best choice here is to let the author speak, so here are his words: "Have you ever dreamed about a journey far beyond the known regions of the universe? Hibernated 1: This Place is Death is a science-fiction text adventure for C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST, and PC DOS. It is the first interactive story of an epic trilogy centered around Olivia Lund, who has been sent on an interplanetary exploration mission by the Terran Alliance. After being in hypersleep for more than 200 years and with more than 800 light-years by Gianluca Girelli being traveled, her ship, the Polaris7, crosses paths with a gigantic alien RetroMagazine has established a vessel and is captured by a tractor strong collaboration with AmigaGuru: beam. Olivia soon finds out that this https://blog.amigaguru.com/a-lookmay not be her only problem. There at-hibernated-1-all-in-one-edition/ is no communication and there are https://blog.amigaguru.com/ no signs of life. hibernated1-review/ The extra-terrestrial spacecraft just RETROMAGAZINE ENGLISH YEAR 1 - ISSUE 0 Developer: Stefan Vogt Publisher: Relics Year: 2018 Platform: Amiga/C64 Genre: Adventure

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