Screenshot of the video game L'Arche du Captain Blood (1988, Ere Informatique)

And at one point in the movie, I couldn't help but think of a gameplay sequence from the video game Captain Blood 💜

One of the most beautiful scenes in the movie (there are so many!)

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#ProjectHailMary #ProjetDernièreChance #CaptainBlood #EreInformatique #RetroGaming #SciFi

L'Arche du Captain Blood (1988)

Purple Saturn Day (1989)

Kult (1989)

Just to clarify, Exxos is not actually a company but a label created by Ere Informatique, which was only used for three games: Captain Blood (but not in the early editions), Purple Saturn Day and Kult ✨

ATA ATA HOGLO HULU !

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#Exxos #EreInformatique #RetroGaming #CaptainBlood #PurpleSaturnDay

Exxos logo

Glory to the god Exxos! 😈

One of my favorite video game company logos ❤️

#Exxos #EreInformatique #CryoInteractive #RetroGaming #PixelArt

Back of the Teenage Queen game box (1988, Ere Informatique)

And the back of the box! ♣️ ♦️

With screenshots of the different versions (except for the Amstrad CPC version)

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#TeenageQueen #EreInformatique #StripPoker #RetroGaming #BigBoxGames #AtariST #Amiga #DOSGaming #AmstradCPC

Contents of the Teenage Queen game box (1988, Ere Informatique)

The contents of the box 💾

I must admit that I didn't really understand the rules of poker. But I may have managed to access all the images 😇 (with a cheat code? I can't remember)

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#TeenageQueen #EreInformatique #StripPoker #RetroGaming #BigBoxGames #AtariST #Amiga

Teenage Queen box (1998, Ere Informatique)

"Tu viens jouer avec moi ?" 👀 ♥️ ♠️

Very happy to own the Teenage Queen box 😀

A very nice strip poker game that I used to play on Atari ST.

The box is as beautiful as the game 🖌️

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Le disque vinyle de l'Arche du Captain Blood était collé sur la page de droite où il y a une publicité Métal Hurlant Logiciels pour trois jeux Ere Informatique : Clash, Trauma et Bubble Ghost.

Pas de disque dans mon exemplaire.

Mais j'avais trouvé le vinyle (souple) il y a quelques années 😀

Un disque promotionnel de L'Arche du Captain Blood qui était collé sur la page de droite 🌌

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#CaptainBlood #EreInformatique #RetroGaming #AtariST #AmstradCPC #Commodore64

Atari ST daily pixel art

« Teenage Queen - end picture », 1988

by Jocelyn Valais / Ere Informatique
Atari ST, 320x200, 16 colours

#atari #atariart #ataripixelart #demoscene #atariST #atariSTe #320x200pixels #16colours #Neochrome #DegasElite #JocelynValais #EreInformatique #TeenageQueen

Macadam Bumper ! 🪩

L'un des quelques jeux que mon père m'avait achetés sur Amstrad CPC 😀

Voici un lien si vous voulez consulter le magazine :

➡️ abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag....

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A short video of the demo mode of L'Ange de Cristal 💖 (1988)

The full video is here: youtube.com/watch?v=5Csn...

#LAngeDeCristal #CraftonAndXunk #GetDexter #EREInformatique #AtariST #AmstradCPC #RetroGaming

L'Ange de Cristal / Crafton and Xunk 2 / Get Dexter 2 (1988, ERE Informatique) - Back cover

L'Ange de Cristal / Crafton and Xunk 2 / Get Dexter 2 (1988, ERE Informatique) - Novel

On the back of the sleeve, there's a short comic strip and some screenshots from the game. And there's a novel of about thirty pages (all illustrations are by Michel Rho)

I will treasure this game 🥰

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Warranty card, floppy disk, novel, and inside cover of the game L'Ange de Cristal. The story and game instructions are on the left side. On the right are biographies of the two creators: Rémi Herbulot (code) and Michel Rho (art and graphics).

Like Captain Blood, it is a vinyl-sized sleeve in which documents and floppy disks can be stored.

I really like the cartoon-style design! 😀

(more info in the image description)

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L'Ange de Cristal / Crafton and Xunk 2 / Get Dexter 2 (1988, ERE Informatique)

I'm so happy to have this game back in my hands 😍 ❤️ ❤️

L'Ange de Cristal (Crafton & Xunk 2), a childhood game that my father bought on Atari ST and that I loved.

I'll post some more photos 🙂

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The map shows connections between inhabited planets. There are 49 of them.

Galaxy map of the adventure game Captain Blood 🌌 ✨

Published with a guide in issue 15 of the French magazine Amstrad Cent pour Cent 🖥️

#CaptainBlood #EREInformatique #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #RetroGaming #AmstradCPC #AtariST #Amiga #DOSGaming

This early flipper video game is pure gold. (Macadam Bumper, 1985, Ere Informatique) #games #ereinformatique

The in-game version is truly faithful to the original composition! 🎵

➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=15lm...

I wonder who did the chiptune. Jean-Louis Valero himself? (or Philippe Ulrich?)

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Did you know that the music for Crafton & Xunk was composed on the piano? 🎹

Composer Jean-Louis Valero has posted it on YouTube:

➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DNy...

I really like it! 😀

#CraftonAndXunk #GetDexter #EreInformatique #JeanLouisValero #VGM #RetroGaming #AmstradCPC #AtariST #Piano

Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts 👨‍✈️

"Hyperspace activated!" 🚀 🌌 ✨

(clip from my longplay: youtube.com/watch?v=NMQr... )

#CaptainBlood #LArcheDuCaptainBlood #EreInformatique #AtariST #Amiga #AmstradCPC #C64 #DOSGaming #RetroGaming #AdventureGame #PointAndClick

Les liens vers les pages en haute définition pour faciliter la lecture :
- download.abandonware.org/magazines/Jo...
- download.abandonware.org/magazines/Jo...

via le site abandonware-magazines.org

#StéphanePicq #ScienceEtVieMicro #EreInformatique #CryoInteractive #RetroGaming #JoystickMagazine

J'ai retrouvé l'interview la plus cool de Stéphane Picq 😀

C'était dans le Joystick n°61 (juin 1995). Par le journaliste Cyrille Baron (Moulinex).

Un entretien passionnant et instructif ❤️ 🍺

#StéphanePicq #ScienceEtVieMicro #EreInformatique #CryoInteractive #RetroGaming

Purple Saturn Day for Atari ST front box cover

I love the touch "colour systems only". That wouldn't be much of a purple day if played in monochrome high res, right?

#PurpleSaturnDay #AtariST #Retro #RetroGaming #EXXOS #EreInformatique #Infogrames

Macadam Bumper (1985, ERE Informatique)

Alien 8 (1985, Ultimate Play the Game)

Hunchback II (1984, Ocean Software)

I notice that the only games I remember owning on Amstrad CPC date from 1984 and early 1985: Hunchback II, Alien 8 and Macadam Bumper.

At that time, there weren't many games available in France on this computer 🙂

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Johan K. Robson (design), Patrick Dublanchet (code) and Michel Rho (gfx) each talk about their work on Kult.

We learn that a 200-page document was written and that the source code is 250 Kb! 💾

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#Kult #Exxos #EreInformatique #AdventureGame #RetroGaming #AtariST #Amiga #DOSGaming #GameDev

I found this 4-page article on Kult in the French magazine Atari! (May 1989)

You can see the sprites and also how the scenery elements were assembled 🧩

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#Kult #Exxos #EreInformatique #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #RetroGaming #AtariST #Amiga #DOSGaming #GameDev

Like an urge to play this game again 😀

#RetroGaming #Kult #EreInformatique #Exxos #AdventureGame #PointAndClick #AtariST #Amiga #DOSGaming #BigBoxGames

Macadam Bumper (1985)

Crafton & Xunk / Get Dexter! (1986)

Kult: The Temple of Flying Saucers / Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess (1989)

Extase (1990)

The art of Michel Rho in four title screens! 💖

#MichelRho #PixelArt #MacadamBumper #CraftonAndXunk #GetDexter #Kult #Extase #EreInformatique #Exxos #CryoInteractive #RetroGaming #AtariST #Amiga

Le Fétiche Micro nous propose un longplay sur un jeu que j'avais en disquette crackée sur mon Atari ST et qui me fut sans documentation totalement cryptique.
#Kult #EreInformatique

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHyx...

Exxos logo

Cryo Interactive logo in the game Extase

In Extase (Cryo Interactive's first game), the logo refers to the company's previous logo (Exxos)

Can you find the reference? 😀

#CryoInteractive #Exxos #EreInformatique #RetroGaming #PixelArt