Let's Play Beneath a Steel Sky

A Blind Let's Play

Platform: PC/DOS

Released: 1994

Genre: Adventure

Setting: Cyberpunk

Developer: Revolution Software

Publisher: Virgin Interactive

Playlist:

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First Video in the Series:

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Come along with me as I begin this journey through a dystopian city, with my little robot, Joey, as my only companion. Why is the council after me? How do we escape the city and exact bloody retribution upon them for killing off my entire tribe? Marvel as I face Officer Reich (who must be from Brooklyn), gab with two silly guards, feed a cat and steal from a dog, and get a hole drilled in my head... voluntarily. All that and more, for the low price of... nothing!

[Total Game Time - 8:34:06]

Selected Comments From YouTube:

• Is that a girl playing/narrating?

• I finished this game! Developers have created a very interesting main character. The game is full of great humor! 90' was a great time for adventure games! 

• Thanks for the great videos!

Links of Interest:

Download Beneath a Steel Sky for Free on GOG.com

Download Beneath a Steel Sky at ScummVM's Website

Beneath a Steel Sky's Official Website

Beneath a Steel Sky Remastered's Official Website (For iPhone and iPod Touch Only) 

Beneath a Steel Sky on Wikipedia

Beneath a Steel Sky on MobyGames
 
Review on Adventure Classic Gaming

Review on Adventure Gamers

Review for BASS Remastered for iPhone and iPad Touch on Adventure Gamers


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Let's Play The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge

A Blind Let's Play
Platform: PC/Windows
Released: 2008
Genre: Adventure
Setting: Fantasy/Weird
Developer: Jonas Kyratzes
Publisher: Self Published
Version: 1.0

Playlist: 

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First Video in the Series:

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Written and developed by Jonas Kyratzes, this is the prequel (of sorts) to The Book of Living Magic. You are contacted by a talking picture frame from the Lands of Dream, and charged with the task of finding the owner of the house, Old Man Bill. Along the way, you encounter a dinosaur in the garden, a political turtle, a pair of Giant Hamsters of Doom, a spiderpig, mushrooms who say "excellent" a lot, a paranoid rabbit, and many other strange characters. We make potions, decipher encrypted journals, turn a chicken into a duck, and many other strange activities.

[Total Game Time - 4:58:06]

Links of Interest:

Get the game here:  http://landsofdream.net/games/the-strange-and-somewhat-sinister-tale-of-the-house-at-desert-bridge/

Jonas Kyratzes' games and blog

Jonas Kyratzes' Video Interviews on Matt Chat:    Part 1   Part 2   Part 3

TSASSTOTHATB on MobyGames



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Let's Play Eye of the Beholder

A Blind Let's Play
Platform: Amiga
Released: 1991

Genre: RPG

Setting: Fantasy/Dungeon Crawler

Developer: Westwood Studios

Publisher: Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI)

Version: 1.09 AGA  WHDLoad Version: 0.2

 Playlist:

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First Video in the Series:

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A year after this game was released for IBM, it was ported to the Amiga. No surprise to many, the sound was superior. What was surprising was that the graphics were not. The graphics were based on the old ECS chip, and didn't utilize the more advanced AGA chip at all. Fast forward to 2006. A programmer named CFou! refurbished the game with 256-color graphics from the IBM version. In essence, here is the game in all it's AGA glory. There's also an automap. Let's kill us some monsters!  ;)  

[Total Game Time - 22:14:20]

Selected Comments From YouTube:

• I remember when disk drives sounded like that

• Wow, I love that you're playing the Amiga version of this game! It makes a nice change from the usual SNES or PC playthroughs you find on YouTube.

I found this from searching for blind LPs, and have always been fascinated by the style of these kinds of games, but I've only ever played Undercroft on iOS... older games like these feel too intimidating for me. That's why I love blind LPs, I get to see everything the game has to offer, without committing to any frustration myself. :D

• I like the fact you are playing this old game. I've played it considerably myself. I hope you enjoy it, I remember it being very hard later on!

• Thank you for this Let's Play.  EOB is rarely done, and it has never been done blind. I'm already loving it... :-)

• oh yeah. no maps on those style games is chore. i remember playing warriors of the eternal sun and trying to map it all on homemade graph paper. lol.

• This game started my fear of all D&D spiders also. Baldurs Gate helped not at all to alleviate that.

• I find myself talking, giving you advise and wonder about your spear fetish but you never seem to hear me. I have that effect on women.. Really though I have watched the whole series up to this point and am enjoying it. I do wonder why you dont keep a useful scroll handy in Goldmoon's weapon slot since she cant smack anything with her mace. Starting to view this episode now, plan on watching your other series when I finish this one. Thank you for doing these play through videos! 

• All the Drow look like Hulk Hogan, all that is missing are them wearing the Hulk-A-Maniac tear away shirts and his theme music. 

• 4 day watching marathon complete! Watched each episode and enjoyed it very much. Good job on defeating the game and thank you for doing this Lets Play series!

Links of Interest:

Eye of the Beholder AGA Fan Project Page

Eye of the Beholder Fan Page (with many other useful links)

Eye of the Beholder on Wikipedia

Eye of the Beholder on MobyGames

Review in Dragon Magazine # 171 (July 1991) (PDF - Pages 58 & 59) Large File!

Review in Amiga Action # 21 (June 1991)

Review in Amiga Format # 24 (July 1991)

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Let's Play The Book of Living Magic

A Blind Let's Play
Platform: Online/Flash
Released: 2011
Genre: Adventure

Setting: Fantasy/Weird

Developer: Jonas Kyratzes

Publisher: Jay is Games

Playlist:  

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First Video in the Series:

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Join me as I play this funny, short, odd Flash game by Jonas and Verena Kyratzes! We play the part of the unfortunately named Raven Locks Smith, as she searches for The Book of Living Magic.This is the second game taking place in The Lands of Dream. It's not exactly a sequel to The Strange and Somewhat Sinister Tale of the House at Desert Bridge (taking a deep breath now), but The Book of Living Magic was created and released after that game, so if you want to think of it as a sequel, then feel free.

[Total Game Time - 1:47:49]

Selected Comments From YouTube:

• What an odd "game". Really more like an illustrated story... Very soothing music and voice and cute graphical style combines with the quirky sense of humor to create a very enjoyable experience.

• Thanks for the commentary, it took bit over an hour to watch these all but it was totally worth it. There is whole another dimension to this when someone else is reading the story for you, thanks for that :)

• I dont know if it's just me, but after playing the game myself few weeks earlier, i find it nice just to close my eyes and come back to book of living magic once more. Thanks for that :)

 

Links of Interest:

Where to Play the Game

Jonas Kyratzes' games and blog

The Book of Living Magic on MobyGames

Jonas Kyratzes' Video Interviews on Matt Chat:    Part 1   Part 2   Part 3

"The Making of The Book of Living Magic" Videos:   Part 1   Part 2   Part 3   Part 4   Part 5

Play The Book of Living Magic on Jay is Games

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