When Joe King arrives at a Buenos Aires hotel to fly a movie star to a photo shoot, he’s ambushed by rivals who steal his clothes to detain him. To escape, Joe disguises himself as a showgirl and sets off to save the star and stop a mad scientist taking over the world. Featuring a larrikin hero, Amazonian tribes and booby-trapped temples, you can see the influence of Indiana Jones on Flight of the Amazon Queen and likewise it features some outdated references and terminology, but John Passfield and Steven Stamatiadis’ game is emblematic of the popular 1990s point-and-click adventure genre, which often incorporated cinematic storytelling elements.
It’s inspired by games like LucasArts’ Monkey Island (1990), which use on-screen directions like ‘use’, ‘open’, ‘talk to’ and ‘pick up’ to propel the gameplay. In another daring escape – this time down a laundry chute – Joe ‘picks up’ two sheets and ‘uses’ them to create a rope, just one of the many puzzles players solve.
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me01 and ae01 Harvested on 8/05/2020 by Cynde Moya from ARC000090-1 as part of ARC Play It Again II project