Time After Time
Release type: Shareware
Release date: March 31, 1994
Levels: 5
Author: Antares Bros.
Registration bonus: Complete game + custom character
Registration price: $10-19.00
Related games: Reptalia
Time After Time, aka New Age Warrior, is a result of the entrepreneurial pairing of Paul Callahan and James Russell. With an easy game development kit at hand, Callahan and Russel chose to advertise their services as custom game designers. Send in a portrait of yourself, and they would scan it in, anti alias it, and slap it on a stock militiaman's body to explore some back roads and roam around a dungeon.
Along with the games of Sheldon Chase and Marty Valenti, Time After Time and its sequel Reptalia are amongst a rare few examples of digitization in a Game-Maker game. They are also the least effective, as there is no animation and little attempt to blend the photographs into the surrounding imagery. Also, as a piece of design, Time After Time is kind of lousy. The controls are confusing and unresponsive, the collision is strange, and the terrain is tedious to navigate.
Still, there is a certain weird brilliance to the business strategy. Furthermore, most of the visuals are original. The dungeon design is even sort of experimental. Although its isometric perspective doesn't quite work, it's nice to see a little ambition.
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Contents
Story
Adam, you have been chosen from the elite group of "New Age Warriors" to try to stop the demented Doctor Vladimir Von Technoface from realizing his dream of world domination. Our operatives have discovered that he is a Genetic Physisist, who has been cloning bizzare mutant creations. He has found the secret of time travel and plans to use it to collect the genetic samples needed to realize his wild plans.
First he will travel to Nazi Germany (1945) to take samples of Hitler's brain. Next, Medevil Europe (565) to find the Breath of the Dragon. Then he will seek, in the Jurrasic Period, (145,000,000 B.C.) the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex. Onward, traveling to the future (3500) he will need their technology to finish his monstrosity.
Finally, upon his return to this time he will create an invincible army and take over the entire world.
Adam, you will start near the enterance of his underground complex. The fate of the whole world is in your hands please don't let us down ! GOOD LUCK !
Instructions
Use numbers 1 through 9 on the keyboard for 8 direction movement. Press the "F" key while moving to shoot. Press "D" to bludgeon monsters who are in your face.
The joystick supports moving in 8 directions, shooting in four. Button one shoots. Use button two for bludgeoning.
Press F1 for help or to pause while game is in play. Press F2 for status.
Credits
This game was created by: Paul Callahan and James Russell
AND YOU CAN BE IN IT !!!
Thanks to all the people at Recreational Software Designs for their great Gamemaker software which is the engine that drives this game. Thanks to Haruyasu Yoshizaki for the free use of his LHarc software.
All CMF files included with this software are given freely without charge, and are included for the users enjoyment.
Availability
Available on several shareware compilation CD-ROMs, including:
- Chicago Computer Broker's Current Shareware Volume 2 (July 1994),
- Software Vault: Windows 2 (December 1994),
- Terry Blount's Cream of the Crop #4 (1994),
- PC-Ohio BBS's Shareware Extravagana 4 (1994),
- Software Vault: The Ruby Collection (1994),
- Software Vault: Games 2 (January 1995),
- Game Empire (May 1995),
- Beachware's 1000 Games for Windows and DOS (November 1995),
- International Software Values' Best of Mega Games (1996),
- International Software Values' 10 Tons of Games Mega Collection 1 (June 1997).
Archive History
Added to the archive on July 25, 2010. Located on demu.org during a methodical search for possible Game-Maker games.
Links
Interviews / Articles
Listings
- archive.org entry
- demu.org entry
- MobyGames entry
- New Age Warrior ('90s Hunter)
Misc. Links
Downloads
- Time After Time (288.1 kB)
- Level 0 map (7.0 kB)
- Level 1 map (7.3 kB)
- Level 2 - Easy map (188.6 kB)
- Level 2 - Hard map (185.6 kB)
