Nostalgia is a dangerous thing. We remember Out of this World’s beautifully animated alien vistas and a cinematic and narrative edge conjured up with nary a syllable of the written or spoken word.
What we don’t remember, however, is the hours we must have spent as a 12-year-old screaming and shouting as the game forcedus to replay the same bastard-hard cavern jumping sequences after a cruel one-shot kill from a lumbering monkey-man guard. Games just used to be harder, and we were used to repetition back then. Whoever patented the quicksave must be rich by now…