It was near-impossible to miss their television ads or piles of free trial CD-ROMs that littered most stores. The most popular of these portals was America Online, or AOL. Ads in the computer enthusiast magazines of the time often promised online access in the form of limitless virtual worlds where users could find anything they imagined or easily meet other people with similar interests.īefore the proliferation of web browsers in the late 1990s, these web portal services were the way most regular folks got online for the first time. The simplified GUI was more appealing to the masses than working with a command line and it was around this time that I first heard of the internet. I was but a young fellow in the early 1990s, but I do remember the surge in popularity for the home computer that kicked in around the time Microsoft pushed Windows 3.1 out into the world. After spending hours with the game, you’ll be glad you live in the future.
Hypnospace Outlaw drops you headfirst into a surreal version of such a portal, offering denizens of 2019 a chance to experience what life online circa 1996 was all about. There were a variety of competing web portals that battled for consumer attention, each offering promises of the ultimate online experience.
What the internet would become and how you interacted with it was something still being worked out by developers. While it didn't give an exact release date, Tendershoot promised that Slayers X is coming "very soon.Before Facebook, Twitter, and smartphones, the internet experience for the average user was drastically different. In it, he must take down the Psyko Sindikate in a fourth-wall breaking adventure (to the point where the fictional developer has a real Twitter account). Set in 2022, Lofton is now 37 and is re-releasing a game he made when he was 14. Slayers X takes the Hypnospace universe in a very different direction, following the character of Zane Lofton from the original game in a Doom-esque first-person shooter that retains the wacky style of Hypnospace. Tendershoot promises a weird and wonderful story that's uncovered through watching videos, exploring websites, and searching files.
The new game see you take on the role of a digital private investigator navigating the dawn of social media. Like Hypnospace Outlaw, Dreamsettler will have players navigating a parodic version of the internet – but where the first game was set in a '90s-like cyberspace, Dreamsettler takes aim at the early 2000s.
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