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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Goober5000 on April 15, 2008, 09:29:11 pm

Title: Iron Helix
Post by: Goober5000 on April 15, 2008, 09:29:11 pm

Anyone remember it?  I just rediscovered the CD in my pile of old gaming stuff, and fired it up on my Win98 machine.  Still fun to play 15 years later. :)

Title: Re: Iron Helix
Post by: Inquisitor on April 16, 2008, 07:28:19 am

I was never able to finish it, the security robot (or whatever that was) always found me and killed me.

Title: Re: Iron Helix
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 16, 2008, 09:46:19 am

Never heard of it, let alone played...

What genre / publisher ? :)

Title: Re: Iron Helix
Post by: CP5670 on April 16, 2008, 10:16:33 am

I played a demo of this that came on a games CD with my 1990 Mac. I can't remember much about it now though.

Title: Re: Iron Helix
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 16, 2008, 10:22:37 am

1990?   I was eight years old....................   
Atari 7800,with ASter01ds :yes: that was my first console and i was about nine so Pass on this :D



Cheers for the nostalgia trip though ;)

Title: Re: Iron Helix
Post by: Goober5000 on April 16, 2008, 10:51:53 am

Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Helix

15 years ago was 1993, not 1990. :p

Title: Re: Iron Helix
Post by: Colonol Dekker on April 16, 2008, 11:04:46 am

Quote from: CP5670 on April 16, 2008, 10:16:33 am

I played a demo of this that came on a games CD with my 1990 Mac. I can't remember much about it now though.

I was misled  :p

Title: Re: Iron Helix
Post by: CP5670 on April 16, 2008, 11:23:25 am

There was a demo of some sort on that CD in any case. :p I still have the CD somewhere. It's possible that the Mac version came out earlier, or the demo was just a trailer of some sort. I can't remember exactly now.

There were a couple of these Director-based adventure games back then that looked really good, but were far too slow to play on that Mac. Spaceship Warlock and The Journeyman Project were some others. I got the full games at some point, but have never managed to play through either one since they're extremely slow on that Mac and won't run properly on the Basilisk emulator for modern systems. :(

Title: Re: Iron Helix
Post by: Roanoke on April 16, 2008, 12:20:14 pm

I like the storyline  :yes:

Title: Re: Iron Helix
Post by: Inquisitor on April 16, 2008, 01:44:57 pm

I think that's why I got it, it was a director based game, and I was running development shop that did director based stuff :)