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6About Hypnospace Outlaw
. Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the corporatocracy sleeps, outlaws are out there committing terrible transgressions all across our beloved Hypnospace, and these virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!. . Hypnospace Outlaw is a '90s internet simulator in which you scour Hypnospace's wide variety of weird and wonderful websites to hunt down wrongdoers, while also keeping an eye on your inbox, avoiding viruses and adware, and downloading a plethora of apps that may or may not be useful.. . As part of your job as a Hypnospace Enforcer, you'll be watching out for copyright infringement, internet bullying and more, with reports and rewards coming direct from the Hypnospace Patrol Department to your inbox. In your spare time, you can customize your HypnOS desktop however you see fit, with a variety of downloads, wallpapers, screen savers and helper bots to keep you company.. . So slip on your Hypnospace Headband™, and keep these key directives in mind:. . Crawl through Cyberspace: Scour the darkest corners of the Web for scumbag users who violate Hypnospace law!. . Dangers and delights: Download groovy GIFS and MIDI
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It's kind of hard to explain Hypnospace Outlaw
It's kind of hard to explain Hypnospace Outlaw. It is, at heart, a game built out of the now-antiquated concept of digging up old files on a hard drive by various search methods. It really does boil down to 'find thing, catalog appropriately, move on' and that's it. However, that game is wrapped in one of the most brilliantly conceived packages. Those who weren't around for the late 90s internet really did miss out on something special - most web pages were independently hosted and owned, CSS hadn't become very popular yet, blogs weren't a thing, everything had a bootstrapped amateur quality to it that resulted in everything from atrocious assaults on the senses to path breaking innovations in page design that are with us today. It was before the term 'meme' entered popular consciousness and things like hamster dance were still new. Most of it's gone, now, the last known archives of a lot of what is called 'Web 1.0' material now long gone. It can't come back, and the current ownership structure and technology of the internet ensures that it won't happen again, nor is this newer web any better at preserving things, as the internet seems to be in a kind of freefall decay as search engines fail, archives fail, and old services just die. So Hypnospace is a chance for the old ones to be a bit nostalgic and look back while the young ones get a chance to see a world that is forever gone, like photographs of dead mining towns whose names are lost. It was a time when people had web pages and built them by themselves, often poorly, sometimes entertainingly so, before the new millennium and the whole world and pop culture got stuck on fast forward forever.
- Graphics4.5
- Gameplay4.5
- Story3.5
- Value3.5
I wholly recommend Hypnospace Outlaw if you:
I wholly recommend Hypnospace Outlaw if you: -marveled at the wonders of Geocitie/Angelfire pages in the years of 1998 and 1999 -are a recovering victim of irony poisoning -enjoy jokes that range from silly to nightmarishly chaotic -click 'random' on wikipedia and then click through multiple links on an article you know nothing about, wishing to dive deeper and further into each experience This game is transfixing and there's still more I need to uncover. An absolute gem.
- Graphics4.0
- Gameplay4.5
- Story4.0
- Value4.0
Before I replay this again, I'd thought I'd share some thoughts
Before I replay this again, I'd thought I'd share some thoughts. I feel like I've either known, or was, every character in this game. If you were online in the late 90's, you will feel it hit on so many levels. It perfectly captures the feeling of the time it was written for. It was an awkward time, but also a time of pure expression- before the internet was turned into a giant shopping mall. It's a reminder that the internet is ours. Today, it's more straightforward and user friendly, but also a shadow of its former self in many respects. We spent this time giving shape to something that had no shape. Everything today looks cleaner and more user friendly compared to then, but we lost something along the way. This game is reminder of the internet's former innocence. It calls to the edgy teenager in me, spending days at a time on chat programs and bulletin boards. The identities we forged, the connections we made, that would only fade into the static of memory. In short, this game is a classic, and will never receive the appreciation it deserves. It also has a kickass soundtrack. I love everything about it.
- Graphics4.0
- Gameplay5.0
- Story4.5
- Value4.5
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