Incase you're still interested about the score, you'll be able to find high quality remakes of the entire score as part of my Titanic AOOT OST Remake project. One cue will be released every week!
The guy who gave Alfred Zeitel his face is an old friend of mine. We wound up working in the same office on a contract project for the government, and we became friends, sharing our employment stories and misadventures. I had no idea about his involvement with this game until he told me.
Just breaks my heart to hear they had plans for a Hindenburg game , AND one as Anastasia in the Winter Palace during the revolution 🤩😢 I would LOVE to play those games , dont care if its 90s graphics, i can just imagine running down the halls of the winter palace, hiding from bolsjevike, using hidden doors and solvind puzzles. Damn i would pay good money for that!
Appleton really screwed the company with the decision to not do this. It was so obvious to keep going with what was working and they did a 180. I had zero interest in anything they did after, and neither did most anyone else.
What an exceptional documentary thank you so much for producing this!!! This game was my childhood and was pivotal in sparking my lifelong Titanic obsession. I cannot thank you enough for making this video. Every Titanic nerd NEEDS TO WATCH THIS!
This was such a great game, but so scary I have no idea how my 9 year old self used to play it. Even now just seeing Zeitel and Vlad still petrify me to this day. Brilliant.
The score definitely added a lot to the creep factor. The Second Class Stairs theme always made it sound like violent murder was just around the next corner.
To everyone super excited about the score: I hear you! I’ve invested a few hundred into making sure I have the best modern virtual instruments and have been hard at work carefully adjusting the mixes and tweaking the instruments to sound as close to their original counterparts as possible. My goal is to make it as close to a 1:1 recreation as I can. To sound like the originals but more realistic, more fresh and a lot higher quality. This will unfortunately take a bit as I don’t want to put something lackluster out. You’ll probably hear it by the end of summer.
Looking forward to it! It was great to hear the recreation of the Café Parisien/B Deck theme at 29:28, probably my favourite track in the whole game. I may just be hearing things, but I think the left hand arpeggio at about 29:40 sounds a little different note-wise than the in-game rendition? I'd go into a bit more detail here but I don't wanna jam up the comments. And not to besmirch your already-excellent work, as I know you'll be putting a lot of effort into it!
@@Foddeur funnily enough that wasn’t from my work lol. I don’t know if David found a midi or something for that. I only finished two tracks for this documentary. Titles and the earlier of the two First Class (C-73) recreations.
@@zshadowofadoubt you should make a discord or something so people can follow your progress and if you need suggestions/help theres tons of us music guys out there willing to give a second ear. on top of that id definitely love to set it up with itunes metadata and custom soundtrack artwork as that's something ive done a lot! of course you still got a long ways to go and some people like to do things completely alone so i get that if thats how you roll, good luck!
I always thought that boat pass was actually a historical thing. It was only quite recently I paid attention to the officer who refuses it and figured out it’s just some weird voodoo and the lackeys running the lifeboats just wanted you (and that creepy card) to get the heck away.
Thanks for an insightful documentary. For me, the key to why the game is so eerie and so unique is that you aren’t just inside the Titanic, you’re inside The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Once you start looking closely at the text and comparing it with events in the game… “Up from Earth’s centre through the seventh gate I climbed, and on the throne of Saturn sate” - is there a point where you climb from the lowest point of the ship, past seven decks, up to the highest? Yup. “The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on” - is there an important clue traced by someone’s finger? There is. “There was a door to which I found no key” - did somebody say Second Class Library? And so on…
I loved this game back in the day. I learned the ship so well that during the Titanic movie I said “Rose, there’s an axe around the corner” much to the annoyance of the other people watching.
I still play Titanic Adventure out of time once in a while the game holds up very well in terms of atmosphere and music and i think the character models faces have a certain charm to them.
I always kept an old computer around so i could still play this game. I was the first person in my family to figure out how to win the game. It is by far my favorite game. I can say most the lines by heart. It got me obsessed with the titanic. The music always puts a smile on my face. Great memories
I've been obsessed with this game since I was 12! I loved how spooky the ship felt. I couldn't wait to play the game at night in our computer room. I think what I loved most about it was how eerie everything felt. With the rest of the ship already gone to bed, you had the run of the place to yourself, with only some crew and a few other seedy characters roaming the decks with you. And the ominous music. I think that's also why in real life I very much enjoyed roaming the cruise ship decks late at night on vacation lol. This game is a timeless classic.
Wow, this is a documentary I didn't know I needed. The stuff about James Cameron asking for their animations (I thought that looked familiar in the movie lol) & the color swatch book they found to match historical accuracy is insane! This was one of the first computer games I ever played when I was 11, and it's still a major favorite to this day. Some of the puzzles were a major challenge to get right too, it's not easy to acquire all the items and get off the ship with them. I'll never forget the creep factor it gave me late at night either 😅
Fantastic documentary! I played this game a lot as a kid but think I was too young to complete it. I recently bought it on Steam and had a ton of nostalgia and wanted to finally finish it. Really enjoyed this video.
CYBERFLIX made a legendary game. Dust and RedJack are also great games by Cyberflix. In the same vein as Titanic Adventure out of Time. Both are underrated.
I cannot explain how much it warms my heart to have rediscovered this gem from my childhood. I was too young to properly play so i watched my dad, but these songs and images are core memories. Thank you
Wonderful job with this documentary! This game touched something deep in a lot of people, and you're clearly one of them! Even as young 10 year-old playing this for the first time, there was something incredibly haunting about the idea of living a wasted life, forever locked in regret, all traced back to simply not acting on one fateful night 30 years in the past. I think that's a universal fear - of missing an opportunity, maybe even without knowing it, that forever puts you on the wrong course. That concept, plus the uncanny valley animations, the intentionally haunting music, the empty ship, the ticking clock, and the knowledge that 1,500 people died in the real-life disaster - it all combines into a bizarre mix of creepy horror, bittersweet nostalgia, and the remote but real possibility of altering the past and changing course. I'll never forget this game, or the feelings it aroused. Really incredible.
Aha, there's my corridor! It's really excellent to see this put together, great work. I remember wanting to get something like this done in around 2017 but I only got as far as emailing Mr Nelson once or twice before I felt like I was being a pest, and wasn't really finding as much neat footage as I wanted (I bought some of it later with the "Beyond Titanic" documentary, and I think I see some of it here in this video, haha). In any case, excellent job, and a great interview with Mr Scheinbaum.
Bugger me, now there's a name I haven't seen in years! Loved your playthroughs of Titanic and Dust from way back when. Glad to see you're still kicking about.
In the Titanic Honor and Glory demo, you can find the Rubaiyat sitting in the coal bunker in the boiler room as well as when you start to climb up the crew passage in the boiler room you can look down and see vlad's package.
@@eringoblah Yess, I noticed that there is a majority that sees them like uncanny or funny, me I see them as "Icones". There is a charm in that and even It's surrealistic in some way, I'm more fascinated and feel the characters as emblematic. It's an aesthetic sight that I'm trying to recreate by making stop motion pictures, and analysing the huge work of Cyberflix on Dust and Titanic.
Love this video, watched it completely till the last second. Love the hallway in the end also. I hope after Honor and Glory is finished, a mod will come out to replay this game with the new graphics.
I like how the original version of the story, at the start of the game before we go back in time....he says he never met his contact (Penny). I'm assuming this is because he got the note from Georgia, a former lover (possible asset/source from a previous mission?) the same night and decided to meet her instead of Penny. Or he just stayed in his cabin. But I love the idea that his horny secret agent screwed up the entire mission because he never met his contact and instead thought he would first go for a quick hookup with an old fling, and then disaster hits titanic and then it's too late. That's what happened in my mind
Definitely ahead of their time. This was one my fave games as a kid. I loved FMV games and loved Titanic (Before the movie) and those memories and excitement I had the first playthrough will always be in my heart. When GOG had it for sale I immediately downloaded it. Countless nights as a kid trying to get a good ending, lol. So nostalgic. Great game & great video! Subscribed!
Very well researched and put together video of this absolute masterpiece! As young as perhaps seven years old, I was playing Adventure out of Time. Exploring Titanic and the different possibilities of the game. (SPOILER) I remember playing it with my brother and my Dad, we took the infamous right turn out of Boiler Room 3 with the Rubaiyat, to then run into Vladie boy. We were shocked when he shot us! I think I speak for many when I say it is something that has stuck with me. It inspired me and so many people. It's truly amazing to see how alive the community still is and how well the game has aged. I look forward to more videos from you in the future.
Wow! What a video. Adventure Out of Time was one of the most iconic (and creepiest) games of my childhood. Even tho I was born in 97, I played the heck out of this game, as it was my dad’s. I had a huge obsession with the Titanic when I was in elementary school. I was always impressed with the graphics and my favorite part was definitely the haunting but brilliant soundtrack.
I’ll never forget when I bought this game. My family and I went to Walmart after seeing titanic for the 4th time when my eye caught this in the pc game section. Needless to say we bought it. I was 11 at the time
For both quality and incredible niche depth, videos like this are why UA-cam sits atop the internet. Very well done. My only note would be that, for a channel called "the Rotoscoper" I'm surprised there was no mention of Jordan Mechner's The Last Express filling the historical adventure game niche that a "sequel" to Titanic:AOoT might otherwise have.
The photo realistic characters made the game better than most games today. I wish somebody would make a game using that style today. Looks a hell of a lot better than CGI.
This was such a cool game. My sister got it when we were kids because, you know, James Cameron’s love story. Fortunate for me there was no Jack or Rose so I ended up playing it. So many memorable lines, characters, and music. I wish we could get something modern.
This game and all the sounds and characters came back to me like old friends. My older sister and I would literally fight over who got to play the game when we were kids!
Such a great game, I remember getting it as a Christmas present in the late 90s. I wrote down anything anyone said that sounded important, because that's what you had to do in those days. In the end I got stuck on the painting ("where am I gonna find a damn cufflink on a ship THIS big!?!?") until I caved and just got the strategy guide (also something you did in those days). Wonderful game that I still play through to this day. A timeless masterpiece.
I've played this game through over 50 times. My dad picked it up for me when I was about 10 or 11 years old. It gave me nightmares at first hahaha, but as I got older and learned to crack the riddles, it got GREAT! I think the biggest breakthrough for me personally was FINALLY understanding how to decode the telegrams with that machine in your trunk. Never have I felt a stronger sense of gratification than that moment :) Thanks for this!
Hey, thanks for the credit! What a great watch! Every time I think I've found every nook and cranny in this game, I always find more (like I had no idea about the message in the Turkish Bath)!
I actually asked Scott Scheinbaum if he had seen your video about Buick Riviera being Lucifer! He said he hasn’t but he liked the idea so much that he said he wished they had thought of that back then!
I absolutely love this game and love that you made such a introspective and thorough look into its creation. Played it a lot as a kid and have never forgotten it. Can't wait to hear all of the recreated music!
Finished playing the game for the 100,000th time last night and then came across this today! Loved learning the history of this amazing game. Great video and looking forward to the music release. 😊
this game scared the absolute hell out of me as a kid. it gave me some really vivid nightmares that i can still freakishly recall lol honestly, this game still scares me and i'm 33 and love horror movies. there's just something about this game that is so unsettling. but i love it! from time to time, i just love playing through it
Wow what an insight into not only an amazing game but also some of what developers went through to build the game for us. Definitely earned a subscribe. Keep it going!
I had heard of this game but hadn't played it myself until last week when I saw someone mention it was available on Steam. I was so excited the other night to hear this video was coming out coincidentally as I was finally delving into the game myself. Great job on this!
Thanks so much for making this. I'm in my 20s now. But when I was younger, say about 4 or 5 years old - my Dad owned a Windows 98 computer, and that was my first experience with computer games. Titanic Adventure Out of Time defined my young life in that way. It got me interested and invested in computers as a whole. As I grew up, I knew that my life would need to revolve around computers - and thus I went to college for computer science - landed myself a job as a software engineer quickly out of college and the rest is history - but this game played an instrumental role in my upbringing and I'll always remember that. Thanks so much for making this. You've filled my heart with sweet nostalgia. Another benefit of this game of course is that it incited a love for history within me. Unfortunately, I can only dream of going back in time and preventing the World Wars but this game makes it a reality!
I still have the original CD ROM, and an old PC connected to a 27 inch CRT TV, and man it sure takes me back to 1996, freshly out of high school. How I miss those times, I certainly was not only mesmerized by the technology but the somber music kept me hooked. Until this day I still revisited every so often, Btw the Steam version is very stable on W10 and have not encountered any issues. If out of curiosity and you are not a gamer, please put this as an item in your bucket list. Highly recommended.
Brilliant documentary! I spent so many hours playing this game as a child and the graphics really are timeless. The music and Vlad still scare me to this day *lol*
Thank you for making this! I have such fond memories playing this as a kid in elementary school! When I got hold of the Rubaiyat I was so scared that Vlad was behind me as I hurried through the boiler rooms! 😂
VR game devs should take note. This “outdated” style of game could work really well, IMO, in VR. It bypasses many of the limitations of VR, just as it did my Apple Performa.
This is a really well researched and beautifully presented documentation! I learned so much about adventure game history and about this game in perticular. The music was perfectly matched! It felt really nostalgic and I really want to go play old adventure games now. Well done, this video deserves more recognition.
Wow! I so appreciate this documentary about this game. I remember when I bought it that I hadn’t even heard of it before, but based on the description on the back of the box and my love of history I thought it sounded like it could be a fun game. And it was! My sister, mom, dad, several friends, and I all became obsessed with playing it and watching each other play making different decisions. By the time the movie Titanic came out we had been pretty immersed in Titanic from this game that we definitely wanted to see the film ... which we’d go on to watch numerous times in theaters taking new friends and family who hadn’t yet seen it to watch it for the first time and then afterwards mentioning that there’s a PC game where you can walk around on the ship! It reminded me a lot of the video game Journeyman Project 2, which had come with my family’s newest PC along with lots of other software like Encarta and other things to show up the CD-ROM. My sister and I were actually just talking about this game a few days ago with my 17 year old niece. She had been asking us about PC games besides Civilization (1, 2, 3, etc), The Sims (1, 2, etc), SimCity (1, 2000, 3000, 4, etc), etc that we liked to play. She’s heard us talk a lot about various console video games, but we only mention PC games connected to ones that are still around and she’s familiar with playing. I assured her we played plenty of other games and she was like: “like what?” And I named adventure games as a genre we liked and she wanted an example. My sister immediately chimed in with this game, although off hand we didn’t immediately remember it’s actual title. It was just “THAT Titanic game!” This documentary gave me a lot of great information about how this game came to be and how they achieved this game. It’s such a wonderful game and this documentary definitely lets the audience realize that. I’m definitely going to share this documentary with my niece so she can see and hear the game. My sister will enjoy learning more about how the game was made as well! And definitely will share with all my friends that played it back in the day at my parents’ house. We spent whole weekends just playing this game and getting lost in the ship and trying to solve the adventure. Thank you for this documentary. And thank you to all those who are recreating the soundtrack! That’s awesome! I also wasn’t aware it could be purchased today! Amazing! And those other games they mentioned possibly making. OMG! I would’ve sooooo bought those knowing it was made by the folks who made this game! They did such a great job with this game that I would’ve trusted them to make other great history related adventure games. Something that was definitely lacking. Most were either sci-fi, modern day, or period pieces without any actual connection to actual history. I think that’s why we also enjoyed The Journeyman Project 2 was because, despite the sci-fi elements, there was some historical parts to it as well. Though I do remember we eventually got bored with it, whereas we didn’t get bored with this game. The only reason we eventually stopped playing it was because we didn’t have our own PCs yet so we could only play when visiting at our parents house. I mean I had a laptop, but the game ran very slowly on it and I remember my parents asking me to borrow the game again, to which they still have it in the case with all the other floppy disks and CD-ROMs of PC games we owned (and they still have the PC, monitor, scanner, printer, webcam, etc, though I don’t think it’s been powered on in ages now). Thank you for the documentary! Well done! I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Amazing game. I've had it installed on every computer I've ever had since the 90s, haha. I've never wanted to uninstall it and I've always made sure to reinstall it whenever I got a new computer. For a period of time that was tricky, but luckily it's easy to get now - and easy to gift to friends to make them play it!
I absolutely loved this game growing up. It had the perfect blend of everything. I've always felt that the Bioshock games kind of shared something with it in the way it feels, interacts, and is designed.
Im from Knoxville myself and we took a tour of the studio back in the 90s. Was very saddened to hear of the closing, after the tour me and my friends from the neighborhood decided to try and make a game using hypercard. It was a hybrid of Myst and Titanic/Dust. It was actually decent for 12 year olds, but probably has been burned in a land fill by now lol. We also trolled people on the Cyberflix forums and would makes posts saying "CAN HELP IF UR STUCK, WILL REPLY IN 5 MINS" just to see the sheer number of replies we would get. We did this all on the local public library computer.
Thanks so much for doing this video! I have always wondered how this unique experience I still play today from time to time was put together. I was desperately looking to find a behind the scenes look. Thanks so very much! All the best from Germany!
Thank you for this fantastic documentary! I would argue that this is one of the most influential games of the modern video game era. It took to the next level some of the things that made Myst so popular. However, its impact on RPG and story-based games is undeniable. It was deeply story-driven, decision-based and had amazing attention to detail. I was so surprised by this game (after buying an old copy from eBay). It was ahead of its time.
It suck that you can’t find Dust anywhere. I’ve checked GOG and Steam and neither of them have it. I remember liking that game as a kid. I wonder why it’s unavoidable
Love the video. As with many others, this is a favorite of mine and was instrumental in igniting my interest in Titanic and her passengers and legacy. Also the music for this game is just spectacular.
WOW! What a fantastic presentation and documentary of a great game! Thanks! Boy do I remember this game when it first came out. I had a temporary subscription to PC Gamer magazine and they mentioned the future release of a game that was set aboard Titanic. I was about 19 or 20 at the time but had been interested in Titanic since I was 7 or 8 (catching the bug from an episode of 'Voyagers' that took place on the ship). When the demo for the game came out I was all over it. I played it over and over again, having fun in developing the pictures that P.P. was after. When it finally released I had to drive 40 minutes to the mall (we lived in the sticks) and the lady at the desk wasn't sure they had it. She also had to warn me that it required 8 megs of RAM (8 MEGS!! lol) When I loaded it up, I was in heaven! What a great experience. It's a memory I will never forget. P.S. I also remember this game came with Free DLC. They were tour packages where characters from the game would discuss aspects and locations from the ship as history lessons. I can't recall if I got them all cuz they would take HOURS to download via dial up. lol. Gawd, do I feel old now.....
AWESOME video! I mean, really, this is absolutely excellent. Was a big fan of this game growing up, and still think about it often in my adult years, so watching this in-depth, behind-the-scenes video was a real treat. Thank you for taking the time to make it!
I have a long, long history with this game. My family somehow got hold of a demo version on a CD with two other games (Timelapse and NCAA Basketball). Found the full game in 2005, got frustrated with it and didn't pick it up again for another 3 years. Found an internet guide to the game, came back and beat the game w/ best ending. This game deserves more credit than its given. It holds a special place in my heart and I would love to see some sort of remaster in the future.
I remember getting this game for my Compaq Presario back in 1998. It was my first computer game and really amazed me for what a computer game at the time was capable of.
What an awesome documentary. I loved this game & the titanic so much as a kid so definitely have some fond memories here. I’ve actually used the nostalgic music to either fall asleep to, or listened to walk throughs whilst I work! I noticed a quick reference to another game I used to love, under the ‘Other titles by Barracuda’ - The game was ‘Timelapse, ancient civilisations’ my goodness that game was magical as well, I wonder if there’s a documentary out there for that one? Fab work again!
43:39 - Amazing!! That almost sounds like a hidden message, since at the time the game was made, few people knew about these suspicious cancellations by those powerful individuals!
Incase you're still interested about the score, you'll be able to find high quality remakes of the entire score as part of my Titanic AOOT OST Remake project. One cue will be released every week!
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I support this!!! This whole game was amazing. Huge part of my childhood. I would love to see a Cyberflix reunion for a small project.
@@AwareWolf777 It's on their UA-cam channel. A few songs are uploaded already!
The graphics were amazing for the time, ahead of its time. But that music was award-worthy. Hauntingly atmospheric.
I had a CD copy back in 1996 in Poland. I still hear the music....
I messaged the composer and told him how much people love his music. He was very grateful and flattered by that
The music had it all suspense atmosphere drama danger
I play it to sleep to sometimes. 😢
The guy who gave Alfred Zeitel his face is an old friend of mine. We wound up working in the same office on a contract project for the government, and we became friends, sharing our employment stories and misadventures. I had no idea about his involvement with this game until he told me.
is he still alive?
That's wild, how's he been doing
Just breaks my heart to hear they had plans for a Hindenburg game , AND one as Anastasia in the Winter Palace during the revolution 🤩😢 I would LOVE to play those games , dont care if its 90s graphics, i can just imagine running down the halls of the winter palace, hiding from bolsjevike, using hidden doors and solvind puzzles. Damn i would pay good money for that!
Not gonna lie. Those both sound amazing. I had no idea those were even an idea that was out there at one point. I would totally play those.
@@ashleyharper3998 Just imagine ! Historical Survival Horror game in the opulent enviorment the Winter Palace is 😍😱
@@moffinpoffin Yup! I am obsessed with anything Romanov-related anyway. It makes me sad that that never came to be. Would have been awesome.
Yup, in addition to the vampire game in 1900s South Carolina!!!
Appleton really screwed the company with the decision to not do this. It was so obvious to keep going with what was working and they did a 180. I had zero interest in anything they did after, and neither did most anyone else.
What an exceptional documentary thank you so much for producing this!!! This game was my childhood and was pivotal in sparking my lifelong Titanic obsession. I cannot thank you enough for making this video. Every Titanic nerd NEEDS TO WATCH THIS!
Hm I know you your channel is awesome
@@joannalumsden9608 thank you so much!
Same bro
Me too this game seriously influenced me as a child!
For whatever reason, this haunting game and its website’s associated chat forum basically launched me into adolescence
My heart _ACHES_ for a high res remaster of this game. Alack and alas.
This was such a great game, but so scary I have no idea how my 9 year old self used to play it. Even now just seeing Zeitel and Vlad still petrify me to this day. Brilliant.
The score definitely added a lot to the creep factor. The Second Class Stairs theme always made it sound like violent murder was just around the next corner.
i'm glad i'm not the only one who still gets chills seeing Vlad and Zeitel lol. Fucks sake even Smethells scared the hell out of me as a kid
@@skippythealien9627They scared the bejesus out of me too.
I think that zoom in towards the priest's face at the beginning triggered my fight or flight response.
You wanna see some scary shit? Miss the last boat when the ship is sinking and talk to him :o
To everyone super excited about the score: I hear you! I’ve invested a few hundred into making sure I have the best modern virtual instruments and have been hard at work carefully adjusting the mixes and tweaking the instruments to sound as close to their original counterparts as possible. My goal is to make it as close to a 1:1 recreation as I can. To sound like the originals but more realistic, more fresh and a lot higher quality. This will unfortunately take a bit as I don’t want to put something lackluster out. You’ll probably hear it by the end of summer.
Please keep us posted on this! Would love to get the score on a vinyl record!
Looking forward to it! It was great to hear the recreation of the Café Parisien/B Deck theme at 29:28, probably my favourite track in the whole game. I may just be hearing things, but I think the left hand arpeggio at about 29:40 sounds a little different note-wise than the in-game rendition? I'd go into a bit more detail here but I don't wanna jam up the comments. And not to besmirch your already-excellent work, as I know you'll be putting a lot of effort into it!
@@Foddeur funnily enough that wasn’t from my work lol. I don’t know if David found a midi or something for that. I only finished two tracks for this documentary. Titles and the earlier of the two First Class (C-73) recreations.
@@ws6206 I can’t commercially release it. I do wish I could make money on this as I’ve invested a few hundred already but I don’t think I can.
@@zshadowofadoubt you should make a discord or something so people can follow your progress and if you need suggestions/help theres tons of us music guys out there willing to give a second ear. on top of that id definitely love to set it up with itunes metadata and custom soundtrack artwork as that's something ive done a lot! of course you still got a long ways to go and some people like to do things completely alone so i get that if thats how you roll, good luck!
“The empty feel of the public spaces.” Couldn’t have described it better myself. 👌🏼💯
Yah that always makes me uneasy I gotta say lol
You don't need to save Rubaiyat and necklace to get perfect ending, they can be lost to Riviera. It is only important that Vlad has neither of them.
Interesting... I'll have to replay and try this.
I always thought that boat pass was actually a historical thing. It was only quite recently I paid attention to the officer who refuses it and figured out it’s just some weird voodoo and the lackeys running the lifeboats just wanted you (and that creepy card) to get the heck away.
That makes sense! Never thought of that...
Thanks for an insightful documentary. For me, the key to why the game is so eerie and so unique is that you aren’t just inside the Titanic, you’re inside The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Once you start looking closely at the text and comparing it with events in the game…
“Up from Earth’s centre through the seventh gate I climbed, and on the throne of Saturn sate” - is there a point where you climb from the lowest point of the ship, past seven decks, up to the highest? Yup.
“The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on” - is there an important clue traced by someone’s finger? There is.
“There was a door to which I found no key” - did somebody say Second Class Library? And so on…
I loved this game back in the day. I learned the ship so well that during the Titanic movie I said “Rose, there’s an axe around the corner” much to the annoyance of the other people watching.
Was that on D deck? Some of the areas dont match up, but I guess they just worked with what they had.
How is no one talking about the perfect Leyland Trask voice you did for this video? That was spot-on!
I still play Titanic Adventure out of time once in a while the game holds up very well in terms of atmosphere and music and i think the character models faces have a certain charm to them.
I always kept an old computer around so i could still play this game. I was the first person in my family to figure out how to win the game. It is by far my favorite game. I can say most the lines by heart. It got me obsessed with the titanic. The music always puts a smile on my face. Great memories
My memories of this game are so insane - the music, atmosphere, and overall feeling. What a game!
This game felt like a reality to Me when it came out. I remember it as though I lived it.
I've been obsessed with this game since I was 12! I loved how spooky the ship felt. I couldn't wait to play the game at night in our computer room. I think what I loved most about it was how eerie everything felt. With the rest of the ship already gone to bed, you had the run of the place to yourself, with only some crew and a few other seedy characters roaming the decks with you. And the ominous music. I think that's also why in real life I very much enjoyed roaming the cruise ship decks late at night on vacation lol. This game is a timeless classic.
Penny Pringle is iconic
Wow, this is a documentary I didn't know I needed. The stuff about James Cameron asking for their animations (I thought that looked familiar in the movie lol) & the color swatch book they found to match historical accuracy is insane! This was one of the first computer games I ever played when I was 11, and it's still a major favorite to this day. Some of the puzzles were a major challenge to get right too, it's not easy to acquire all the items and get off the ship with them. I'll never forget the creep factor it gave me late at night either 😅
Fantastic documentary! I played this game a lot as a kid but think I was too young to complete it. I recently bought it on Steam and had a ton of nostalgia and wanted to finally finish it.
Really enjoyed this video.
CYBERFLIX made a legendary game. Dust and RedJack are also great games by Cyberflix. In the same vein as Titanic Adventure out of Time. Both are underrated.
I wanna make a fan remake of this game
I cannot explain how much it warms my heart to have rediscovered this gem from my childhood. I was too young to properly play so i watched my dad, but these songs and images are core memories. Thank you
Wonderful job with this documentary! This game touched something deep in a lot of people, and you're clearly one of them! Even as young 10 year-old playing this for the first time, there was something incredibly haunting about the idea of living a wasted life, forever locked in regret, all traced back to simply not acting on one fateful night 30 years in the past. I think that's a universal fear - of missing an opportunity, maybe even without knowing it, that forever puts you on the wrong course. That concept, plus the uncanny valley animations, the intentionally haunting music, the empty ship, the ticking clock, and the knowledge that 1,500 people died in the real-life disaster - it all combines into a bizarre mix of creepy horror, bittersweet nostalgia, and the remote but real possibility of altering the past and changing course. I'll never forget this game, or the feelings it aroused. Really incredible.
Aha, there's my corridor! It's really excellent to see this put together, great work. I remember wanting to get something like this done in around 2017 but I only got as far as emailing Mr Nelson once or twice before I felt like I was being a pest, and wasn't really finding as much neat footage as I wanted (I bought some of it later with the "Beyond Titanic" documentary, and I think I see some of it here in this video, haha). In any case, excellent job, and a great interview with Mr Scheinbaum.
For Scotty? He's onboard? Please, come in!
@@MrWillyMrBrightside An iceborrrg, they've run into an ICEBorrrrg, the idiots!
Bugger me, now there's a name I haven't seen in years! Loved your playthroughs of Titanic and Dust from way back when. Glad to see you're still kicking about.
@@TheDeviantGent I'm glad Titanic stuff is still celebrated as well - definitely overdue for more recognition, this game!
The music, the dark atmosphere, the characters. Its etched into my brain.
In the Titanic Honor and Glory demo, you can find the Rubaiyat sitting in the coal bunker in the boiler room as well as when you start to climb up the crew passage in the boiler room you can look down and see vlad's package.
so cool! love those little easter eggs
I still feel scared when you enter D-Deck.
This was a game ahead of it's time. Thank you for this great documentary and thank you Cyberflix for this childhood treasure.
I always liked the animations, they looked like living portraits to me
Me too. I always perceived them as stylized, not weird.
@@eringoblah Yess, I noticed that there is a majority that sees them like uncanny or funny, me I see them as "Icones". There is a charm in that and even It's surrealistic in some way, I'm more fascinated and feel the characters as emblematic. It's an aesthetic sight that I'm trying to recreate by making stop motion pictures, and analysing the huge work of Cyberflix on Dust and Titanic.
It always perplexed me how fast you walk in this game haha
on computers at the time it wasn't quite as bad, but Carlson still fairly jogged along for sure
Back then, people thought you could walk fast in Doom. Obviously, they never played this game.
@@BD12 *georgia voice* I knew you'd come.
The player is an Olympic sprinter turned spy XD
This game blew my mind as a kid. I played it over and over, I loved it so much.
Love this video, watched it completely till the last second. Love the hallway in the end also. I hope after Honor and Glory is finished, a mod will come out to replay this game with the new graphics.
A video I did not know I wanted.
Right!? They frequently are the best ones too!!!
This is the best documentary I’ve ever seen, from this platform. Your presentation is astounding! Bravo!!! 🥂🎥🎞🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
For me, the most creepiest music in the game is in the second class staircases and the Turkish Bath
26:52 seeing those headshots beside their in-game counterparts is the wildest thing, geez. Such a great video!
I like how the original version of the story, at the start of the game before we go back in time....he says he never met his contact (Penny). I'm assuming this is because he got the note from Georgia, a former lover (possible asset/source from a previous mission?) the same night and decided to meet her instead of Penny. Or he just stayed in his cabin. But I love the idea that his horny secret agent screwed up the entire mission because he never met his contact and instead thought he would first go for a quick hookup with an old fling, and then disaster hits titanic and then it's too late. That's what happened in my mind
Definitely ahead of their time. This was one my fave games as a kid. I loved FMV games and loved Titanic (Before the movie) and those memories and excitement I had the first playthrough will always be in my heart. When GOG had it for sale I immediately downloaded it. Countless nights as a kid trying to get a good ending, lol. So nostalgic. Great game & great video! Subscribed!
Any updates on the soundtrack?
Very well researched and put together video of this absolute masterpiece!
As young as perhaps seven years old, I was playing Adventure out of Time. Exploring Titanic and the different possibilities of the game.
(SPOILER)
I remember playing it with my brother and my Dad, we took the infamous right turn out of Boiler Room 3 with the Rubaiyat, to then run into Vladie boy. We were shocked when he shot us!
I think I speak for many when I say it is something that has stuck with me. It inspired me and so many people. It's truly amazing to see how alive the community still is and how well the game has aged.
I look forward to more videos from you in the future.
Wow! What a video. Adventure Out of Time was one of the most iconic (and creepiest) games of my childhood. Even tho I was born in 97, I played the heck out of this game, as it was my dad’s. I had a huge obsession with the Titanic when I was in elementary school. I was always impressed with the graphics and my favorite part was definitely the haunting but brilliant soundtrack.
I’ll never forget when I bought this game. My family and I went to Walmart after seeing titanic for the 4th time when my eye caught this in the pc game section. Needless to say we bought it. I was 11 at the time
I always wanted to see the actor of Willi von Haderlitz. I assume a lot had a crush on him and Limehouse.
For both quality and incredible niche depth, videos like this are why UA-cam sits atop the internet. Very well done.
My only note would be that, for a channel called "the Rotoscoper" I'm surprised there was no mention of Jordan Mechner's The Last Express filling the historical adventure game niche that a "sequel" to Titanic:AOoT might otherwise have.
The photo realistic characters made the game better than most games today. I wish somebody would make a game using that style today. Looks a hell of a lot better than CGI.
This was such a cool game. My sister got it when we were kids because, you know, James Cameron’s love story. Fortunate for me there was no Jack or Rose so I ended up playing it. So many memorable lines, characters, and music. I wish we could get something modern.
This game and all the sounds and characters came back to me like old friends. My older sister and I would literally fight over who got to play the game when we were kids!
Such a great game, I remember getting it as a Christmas present in the late 90s. I wrote down anything anyone said that sounded important, because that's what you had to do in those days. In the end I got stuck on the painting ("where am I gonna find a damn cufflink on a ship THIS big!?!?") until I caved and just got the strategy guide (also something you did in those days).
Wonderful game that I still play through to this day. A timeless masterpiece.
Can’t wait for your friend’s remake of the soundtrack
I've played this game through over 50 times. My dad picked it up for me when I was about 10 or 11 years old. It gave me nightmares at first hahaha, but as I got older and learned to crack the riddles, it got GREAT! I think the biggest breakthrough for me personally was FINALLY understanding how to decode the telegrams with that machine in your trunk. Never have I felt a stronger sense of gratification than that moment :) Thanks for this!
Hey, thanks for the credit! What a great watch!
Every time I think I've found every nook and cranny in this game, I always find more (like I had no idea about the message in the Turkish Bath)!
I actually asked Scott Scheinbaum if he had seen your video about Buick Riviera being Lucifer! He said he hasn’t but he liked the idea so much that he said he wished they had thought of that back then!
@@rotoscopester1580 Really?! Cool!
25:14 the REAL Penny Pringle! So cool.
Great video. Though, now I'm drooling over what could have been with a similar game taking place on the Lusitania or Hindenburg.
I absolutely love this game and love that you made such a introspective and thorough look into its creation. Played it a lot as a kid and have never forgotten it. Can't wait to hear all of the recreated music!
You are my hero for making this video! I LOVED this game as a teenager. I can't recount how many times I played it.
Finished playing the game for the 100,000th time last night and then came across this today! Loved learning the history of this amazing game.
Great video and looking forward to the music release. 😊
this game scared the absolute hell out of me as a kid. it gave me some really vivid nightmares that i can still freakishly recall lol
honestly, this game still scares me and i'm 33 and love horror movies. there's just something about this game that is so unsettling. but i love it! from time to time, i just love playing through it
Got this in a bargain bin around 1998. Excellently detailed representation of the ship and the characters were high quality.
Wow what an insight into not only an amazing game but also some of what developers went through to build the game for us. Definitely earned a subscribe. Keep it going!
Thank you so much for creating this video. Would love to listen to the remake of the soundtrack whenever you or your friend completes it.
I had heard of this game but hadn't played it myself until last week when I saw someone mention it was available on Steam. I was so excited the other night to hear this video was coming out coincidentally as I was finally delving into the game myself. Great job on this!
Thanks so much for making this. I'm in my 20s now. But when I was younger, say about 4 or 5 years old - my Dad owned a Windows 98 computer, and that was my first experience with computer games. Titanic Adventure Out of Time defined my young life in that way. It got me interested and invested in computers as a whole. As I grew up, I knew that my life would need to revolve around computers - and thus I went to college for computer science - landed myself a job as a software engineer quickly out of college and the rest is history - but this game played an instrumental role in my upbringing and I'll always remember that. Thanks so much for making this. You've filled my heart with sweet nostalgia.
Another benefit of this game of course is that it incited a love for history within me. Unfortunately, I can only dream of going back in time and preventing the World Wars but this game makes it a reality!
I still have the original CD ROM, and an old PC connected to a 27 inch CRT TV, and man it sure takes me back to 1996, freshly out of high school. How I miss those times, I certainly was not only mesmerized by the technology but the somber music kept me hooked. Until this day I still revisited every so often, Btw the Steam version is very stable on W10 and have not encountered any issues. If out of curiosity and you are not a gamer, please put this as an item in your bucket list. Highly recommended.
Brilliant documentary! I spent so many hours playing this game as a child and the graphics really are timeless. The music and Vlad still scare me to this day *lol*
This was so interesting. I have lots of fond memories playing the game as a kid!
Thank you for making this! I have such fond memories playing this as a kid in elementary school! When I got hold of the Rubaiyat I was so scared that Vlad was behind me as I hurried through the boiler rooms! 😂
I love this game! The score is wonderful as well! I’m so excited that a revamped version of the score is coming out!
VR game devs should take note. This “outdated” style of game could work really well, IMO, in VR. It bypasses many of the limitations of VR, just as it did my Apple Performa.
Commenting before watching because I have been saving this treat for DAYS.
This is a really well researched and beautifully presented documentation! I learned so much about adventure game history and about this game in perticular. The music was perfectly matched! It felt really nostalgic and I really want to go play old adventure games now. Well done, this video deserves more recognition.
The thumbnail looks like a movie poster.
A movie of this would be great!
Bookmarked for the remastered music! Great documentary. Loved this game.
Wow! I so appreciate this documentary about this game. I remember when I bought it that I hadn’t even heard of it before, but based on the description on the back of the box and my love of history I thought it sounded like it could be a fun game. And it was! My sister, mom, dad, several friends, and I all became obsessed with playing it and watching each other play making different decisions. By the time the movie Titanic came out we had been pretty immersed in Titanic from this game that we definitely wanted to see the film ... which we’d go on to watch numerous times in theaters taking new friends and family who hadn’t yet seen it to watch it for the first time and then afterwards mentioning that there’s a PC game where you can walk around on the ship! It reminded me a lot of the video game Journeyman Project 2, which had come with my family’s newest PC along with lots of other software like Encarta and other things to show up the CD-ROM. My sister and I were actually just talking about this game a few days ago with my 17 year old niece. She had been asking us about PC games besides Civilization (1, 2, 3, etc), The Sims (1, 2, etc), SimCity (1, 2000, 3000, 4, etc), etc that we liked to play. She’s heard us talk a lot about various console video games, but we only mention PC games connected to ones that are still around and she’s familiar with playing. I assured her we played plenty of other games and she was like: “like what?” And I named adventure games as a genre we liked and she wanted an example. My sister immediately chimed in with this game, although off hand we didn’t immediately remember it’s actual title. It was just “THAT Titanic game!” This documentary gave me a lot of great information about how this game came to be and how they achieved this game. It’s such a wonderful game and this documentary definitely lets the audience realize that. I’m definitely going to share this documentary with my niece so she can see and hear the game. My sister will enjoy learning more about how the game was made as well! And definitely will share with all my friends that played it back in the day at my parents’ house. We spent whole weekends just playing this game and getting lost in the ship and trying to solve the adventure. Thank you for this documentary. And thank you to all those who are recreating the soundtrack! That’s awesome! I also wasn’t aware it could be purchased today! Amazing! And those other games they mentioned possibly making. OMG! I would’ve sooooo bought those knowing it was made by the folks who made this game! They did such a great job with this game that I would’ve trusted them to make other great history related adventure games. Something that was definitely lacking. Most were either sci-fi, modern day, or period pieces without any actual connection to actual history. I think that’s why we also enjoyed The Journeyman Project 2 was because, despite the sci-fi elements, there was some historical parts to it as well. Though I do remember we eventually got bored with it, whereas we didn’t get bored with this game. The only reason we eventually stopped playing it was because we didn’t have our own PCs yet so we could only play when visiting at our parents house. I mean I had a laptop, but the game ran very slowly on it and I remember my parents asking me to borrow the game again, to which they still have it in the case with all the other floppy disks and CD-ROMs of PC games we owned (and they still have the PC, monitor, scanner, printer, webcam, etc, though I don’t think it’s been powered on in ages now). Thank you for the documentary! Well done! I thoroughly enjoyed it!
The music of this game was by far the best part… I got this game and duke nukem 3D for Xmas 1996. Still have them today.
So today I learned that the thing Trask is always holding is an Oreo. I always thought it was a pocketwatch.
I remember playing this. Wish this came back or remastered so we could play it again.
It’s available on Steam, I played it yesterday
@@patrickallison1283 Thanks.
Amazing game. I've had it installed on every computer I've ever had since the 90s, haha. I've never wanted to uninstall it and I've always made sure to reinstall it whenever I got a new computer. For a period of time that was tricky, but luckily it's easy to get now - and easy to gift to friends to make them play it!
An hour long video interview just came out with head writer Andrew Nelson about the game. The intro is German but the actual interview is English
Link?
@@philduritza7717 the video ID is: /BpC2N_BCRMc put it after "youtube" in the link
Thx!
@@philduritza7717 so you found it alright? I tried just posting the full link but it got auto deleted by youtube.
I absolutely loved this game growing up. It had the perfect blend of everything. I've always felt that the Bioshock games kind of shared something with it in the way it feels, interacts, and is designed.
I would love to hear this 2021 reproduction of the games original music.
Im from Knoxville myself and we took a tour of the studio back in the 90s. Was very saddened to hear of the closing, after the tour me and my friends from the neighborhood decided to try and make a game using hypercard. It was a hybrid of Myst and Titanic/Dust. It was actually decent for 12 year olds, but probably has been burned in a land fill by now lol. We also trolled people on the Cyberflix forums and would makes posts saying "CAN HELP IF UR STUCK, WILL REPLY IN 5 MINS" just to see the sheer number of replies we would get. We did this all on the local public library computer.
I loved this game and Dust as a kid. I never was able to beat them, but I would love to back and see how they end. Awesome video!!
Congrats on the documentary bro! Incredible, thanks so much for making it 💯
Thanks so much for doing this video! I have always wondered how this unique experience I still play today from time to time was put together. I was desperately looking to find a behind the scenes look. Thanks so very much! All the best from Germany!
Thank you for this fantastic documentary! I would argue that this is one of the most influential games of the modern video game era. It took to the next level some of the things that made Myst so popular. However, its impact on RPG and story-based games is undeniable. It was deeply story-driven, decision-based and had amazing attention to detail. I was so surprised by this game (after buying an old copy from eBay). It was ahead of its time.
It suck that you can’t find Dust anywhere. I’ve checked GOG and Steam and neither of them have it. I remember liking that game as a kid. I wonder why it’s unavoidable
Smettles made me want to cry
Love the video. As with many others, this is a favorite of mine and was instrumental in igniting my interest in Titanic and her passengers and legacy.
Also the music for this game is just spectacular.
WOW! What a fantastic presentation and documentary of a great game! Thanks!
Boy do I remember this game when it first came out. I had a temporary subscription to PC Gamer magazine and they mentioned the future release of a game that was set aboard Titanic. I was about 19 or 20 at the time but had been interested in Titanic since I was 7 or 8 (catching the bug from an episode of 'Voyagers' that took place on the ship). When the demo for the game came out I was all over it. I played it over and over again, having fun in developing the pictures that P.P. was after.
When it finally released I had to drive 40 minutes to the mall (we lived in the sticks) and the lady at the desk wasn't sure they had it. She also had to warn me that it required 8 megs of RAM (8 MEGS!! lol) When I loaded it up, I was in heaven! What a great experience. It's a memory I will never forget.
P.S. I also remember this game came with Free DLC. They were tour packages where characters from the game would discuss aspects and locations from the ship as history lessons. I can't recall if I got them all cuz they would take HOURS to download via dial up. lol. Gawd, do I feel old now.....
I am kicking myself that I never noticed that in my favorite movie Marty’s mom’s holding the Rubiat!
AWESOME video! I mean, really, this is absolutely excellent. Was a big fan of this game growing up, and still think about it often in my adult years, so watching this in-depth, behind-the-scenes video was a real treat. Thank you for taking the time to make it!
Great video! Thank you for this, I've played it a thousand times and I'm still not sick of it 😂
I have a long, long history with this game. My family somehow got hold of a demo version on a CD with two other games (Timelapse and NCAA Basketball). Found the full game in 2005, got frustrated with it and didn't pick it up again for another 3 years. Found an internet guide to the game, came back and beat the game w/ best ending.
This game deserves more credit than its given. It holds a special place in my heart and I would love to see some sort of remaster in the future.
I remember getting this game for my Compaq Presario back in 1998. It was my first computer game and really amazed me for what a computer game at the time was capable of.
Bravo for a great doco on this treasured game! This deserves all the views!!!!!
Hey man, how are things goign with the remade soundtrack? Happy to spend a few bucks on it once it's available.
What an awesome documentary. I loved this game & the titanic so much as a kid so definitely have some fond memories here. I’ve actually used the nostalgic music to either fall asleep to, or listened to walk throughs whilst I work!
I noticed a quick reference to another game I used to love, under the ‘Other titles by Barracuda’ - The game was ‘Timelapse, ancient civilisations’ my goodness that game was magical as well, I wonder if there’s a documentary out there for that one?
Fab work again!
43:39 - Amazing!! That almost sounds like a hidden message, since at the time the game was made, few people knew about these suspicious cancellations by those powerful individuals!