![]() Hypnospace Outlaw whisks you back there, in a time machine crafted with fastidious care. Dialling download speeds of more than 3.5kbps was respectable - I nearly had a heart attack when my friend topped 60kbps with broadband. Netflix was a DVD-by-post company, broadband still a fledgling thing. There was no discernible Google, no Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Twitch. It was a bold new frontier and an innocent one, a high street with no chain stores, no ubiquity. Availability: Out now on Itch.io/GOG/Steam.Oh, those halcyon days! The music blaring from every page! The fields of animations twirling in a never ending dance! The chaos, the garishness, like a teenager's bedroom over and over again. Incremental change is hard to spot day-by-day but when seen all at once, in some kind of dieting Before picture, it's brazen. It's remarkable how different things were. And you solve it by surfing - rifling through the internet as it once was, looking for clues. But it's also a detective game with a story rippling through it, and there's a mystery here to solve. ![]() Hypnospace Outlaw is an early internet simulator, a recreation of the world wide web from the 1990s - a thing not everybody used all the time. A witty and smitten recreation of a time gone by, which you'll forgive tedium if you share in the nostalgia.
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