Captain Blood - Atari ST (1988)

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Captain Blood (1988)

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"Captain Blood" ("L' Arche du Captain Blood" in France) is a space adventure game from ERE Informatique (Exxos) released in 1988 on Atari ST.

00:00 Animation
01:20 Title Screen
03:04 Beginning of the game
03:26 Launching OORXX
05:00 Encounter with the alien Migrax
11:22 Hyperspace
12:40 Launching OORXX (avoid homing missile)
15:05 Encounter with the alien Torka
20:28 Encounter with the alien Turbular Brain 4
24:33 Teleport Migrax into the Ark
25:44 Disintegrate Migrax
25:54 Destroy Planet

The titular character of the game is a 1980s video game designer, Bob Morlock, who had picked "Captain Blood" as a nickname in tribute to the film starring Errol Flynn of the same name. Morlock develops a new video game about aliens and space travel. While testing for the first time his new project, he becomes warped inside the spaceship of the very game he had designed. Soon after, Blood is forced to go into hyperspace mode and, due to an incident, gets accidentally cloned 30 times. For 800 years, Blood tracks down every clone, as each one took a portion of his vital fluid. When the game begins, Blood successfully disintegrated 25 clones but he needs to kill the last five clones who turned out to be the most difficult to track down or he will lose his last connections with the human species.

The objective of the game is to track down and disintegrate five clones of Captain Blood. To find them, the player must speak to various aliens and gain their trust. Communication with aliens occurs via an icon-based interface known as UPCOM. This consists of around 150 icons, each representing a different concept. As each alien race discovered speaks its own language and reacts differently, the player must learn to negotiate using these UPCOM concepts in a style that suits the races.

The player starts the game at the bridge of a biological ship, the Ark. The ship begins in the vicinity of one of four predetermined planets, each inhabited by a single alien. To make contact with an alien, the player launches an OORXX - a biological probe - to the planet's surface. The player must successfully navigate the probe over a fractal landscape, eventually reaching the alien at the end of a valley. The UPCOM interface then appears so that the player may talk to the alien and find out more information—most importantly, the coordinates of other inhabited planets.

The Ark also has the capability to hyperspace to other planets, scan planets for defences, destroy planets and teleport aliens to an area known as the Fridgitorium, for disintegration or transportation to another planet. An alien can only be teleported to the Ark after it has consented to do so.

The title tune is a stripped down version of "Ethnicolor" by Jean Michel Jarre.

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Music : "Ethnicolor" by Jean Michel Jarre ("Zoolook" album)

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