Operation Flashpoint -- Installation
147Installation of Operation Flashpoint; developed by Bohemia Interactive, released in 2001 by Codemasters. A tactical military combat shooter that has since been re-released by Bohemia Interactive as "ArmA: Cold War Assault".
The memorable installation procedure of the original release plays several original quotes from Cold War era politics, set to the Soviet national anthem (followed by a piece of the original OFP soundtrack). For this video, the copying of files was deliberately slowed down in order to let the music play for a while longer (as it would have on slower systems of the day).
This is a first attempt at documenting the "backstage" elements of older computer games: autorun menus, installers, setup programs, registrations, bonus features...
I've long advocated that classic gaming is not just about the games themselves, and that you can't just isolate the actual software from its context. As much as its physical delivery (packaging, documentation, etc.), seemingly menial elements like installations and setups, that might have even been a nuisance when the games were new, have invariably become part of people's memories about these games. The more special, interesting ones that I will present in this series can evoke just as many nostalgic memories as the games themselves.
I greatly enjoy and support that through sites like GOG.com, older games can become publicly available again. The downside of them being delivered online and adapted for newer systems is that the original presentation, installation and configuration are most often lost. These videos are therefore also for new players, in order to give them a sense of the first few minutes that proud new owners of the game spent with it.
Can you believe the original, lossless copy of this video (without sound) is just 3.81 MiB in size? x264 for the win!
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