Out Of This World
Out Of This World

Out Of This World

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One stormy night, physicist Lester Knight Chaykin runs a particle accelerator experiment, lightning strikes, and in a blink he is waist-deep in an alien pool with tentacles reaching up from below. Out of This World, released in Europe as Another World, wastes no time showing you what kind of game it is: cinematic, nearly wordless and ruthless, with death waiting a few steps into almost every screen.

French designer Éric Chahi built the original almost single-handedly, and its flat-shaded polygon art, lifelike animation and complete absence of on-screen meters gave it the feel of an interactive film years before that idea became a genre. Lester survives by running, jumping and, once he gets his hands on one, using a laser pistol that can fire shots, raise protective shields and blast through enemy shields with a charged burst. He escapes captivity alongside a hulking alien companion, a friendship told entirely through gestures, and every escape sequence plays like a puzzle you solve by dying and learning.

Interplay handled this Super Nintendo version, released in North America in 1992. It opens with the same wordless, rain-soaked introduction of Lester arriving at his lab that set the tone on computers, but it plays a little differently from the computer original. It adds more enemies and a stiffer challenge, in step with console expectations of the day, and Nintendo's standards of the time saw some content toned down, with blood recolored green. Those quirks make the SNES cartridge a distinct version of a landmark game rather than a simple copy.

Its influence runs deep: designers including Fumito Ueda, creator of Ico, have cited it as an inspiration, and its minimalist, show-don't-tell storytelling echoes through atmospheric platformers like Limbo and Inside. Playing it on original hardware shows how a game with almost no dialogue built an alien world that players still talk about more than thirty years later.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1992
Publisher
Victor Musical Industries
Developer
Delphine Software
Players
Single player
About the game

The version of Out of This World (Another World) released for the SNES and Apple IIgs was ported by Interplay. This version was made more difficult, including more enemies, since it was normal for console games to be difficult in order to take longer to beat. The American SNES version has a fair amount of censorship, including blood being painted green. The Apple IIgs version is basically the same as the SNES version, due to the similar hardware (without censorship).

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