I was at a friend’s house when he loaded Another World for the first time on his Atari ST, and the cinematic feel of the game was unlike anything we’d experienced before. We truly felt like we were playing through something special.

To this day I’m still impressed at the clarity of the storytelling, given that it’s told dialogue and text free.

Though the often-brutal, sometimes memory-based gameplay hasn’t aged well throughout, it’s still an appropriately otherworldly experience.

The same can be said for the much more traditional action adventure, Flashback, which – despite its appearance on a cartridge that belongs to the Home Computer Evercade range – is here in its Sega Mega Drive incarnation.

It’s also pretty damn unforgiving, and success can be a bit fussy, requiring a little too much precision from the player, but its animation and overall aesthetic has aged surprisingly well.

As for the other two games on this collection, Future Wars and Operation Stealth, both are point and click adventures, a genre which I fully admit I have little patience for these days (and a word of warning: though compatible with the Super Pocket consoles, the text in these games is especially small on their screens).

Your mileage may vary however, and it’s certainly the case that I think Another World and Flashback, despite their own issues, make this cartridge a worthwhile pick-up on their own.

You can buy Delphine Software Collection 1 from Amazon.

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