Total Recall
Based on the movie of the same name, Total Recall puts you in charge of Douglas Quaid, who must find a way to Mars in order to find the answers to his two questions: why is he being hunted, and who is hunting…
Total Recall is a platform developed by Ocean, released 31 December 1990 on Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST/STE.
What Total Recall is
Total Recall is a platform game developed by Ocean and released in 1990. It was published by Acclaim. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Doug Quaid is a mild-mannered construction worker with a gorgeous wife in an apartment on futuristic Earth. Plagued by restless feelings and dreams of Mars, he heads to Rekall, Inc. to purchase a commercial memory implant of a Martian vacation 'cheaper, better, and safer than the real thing'. However, the implant procedure uncovers latent memories of Quaid's real life as a secret agent for the Martian government. Pursued relentlessly by his former employers, Quaid must fight from Earth to Mars in a battle to reclaim his past and secure his future.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Total Recall holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1990 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Total Recall launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound and Colorado. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound, Colorado.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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