Time Traveler is an interactive movie video game released in 1991.
Plot[]
Marshal Gram, a wild west cowboy must travel through various time periods in order to defeat the evil time lord Vulcor and rescue Princess Kyi-La.
Gameplay[]
The game consists mostly of quick time style events in which the player must input the correct controls in order for Marshal to dodge traps and shoot antagonists. Missing a prompt will often lead to a unique death animation.
Players start with three lives and a single Time Reversal Cube which can undo one mistake if they miss a button prompt. More Time Reversal Cubes can be bought from the trader for real life coin inserts.
Marshal will travel through seven time periods:
- 1873: Marshal's own time period, enemies in this include cowboys, bandits and native americans.
- 50,000 bc: A prehistoric time period in which Marshall will mostly face off with cavemen and cavewomen.
- 1998: A slightly 'futuristic' version of 1998 in which Marshal will face off with gangsters, drug dealers, gangs and zombies.
- 2173: A futuristic level in which the main enemies are robots, people with alien technology and plasm wisps.
- Mystical: A magical arabian inspired time period in which Marshal faces off with snake charmers, knife throwers, fire breathers, genies and sorcerors.
- 1350: A middle ages themed level in which Marshal will face off with knaves, knights, wizards, ninjas and shaolin monks.
- 2552: The final level which is full of traps. The only true opponent is Vulcor himself.
Upon defeating Vulcor and rescuing Kyi-La, the player will be treated to images of the cast dancing to celebrate the players victory, as well as the staff waving to them and a clip of Rick Dyer and his young son.
Trivia[]
- This is often mistaken to be the first holographic game, as the actual first holographic game was Road Runner (1971, not to be confused with the 1985 arcade game of the same name)
- It was also one of the first games to utilise live action rather than sprites or animated characters.
- The display works because of a concave mirror inside the cabinet, which reflects a specially framed image produced on a standard monitor. As a result of the mirror, the focused image appears as if it is floating in mid-air allowing for a holographic feel.
- Due to the way this game's hardware works, the backgrounds needed to be completely black to pull off the illusion.
- This was the first game released for Sega's Hi-tech hologram theater cabinet.
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