Spaceship Warlock - Part 1

This is the first ten minutes of Spaceship Warlock, where the player roughs around a Blade Runner-esque city, nabs the bandit Hok Tuey, gets plastered with the reward money, and snags a ride on the luxurious Belshazzar.

Spaceship Warlock has a TON of interesting side areas and activities. The creators really tried to make a fully fleshed-out world. I'll try to highlight the most interesting ones (like going to the bar), but there's plenty of others. You can even call the emergency phone number if you want.

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Spaceship Warlock is a 1990/1991 interactive movie by Reactor Inc. One of the first games to take advantage of its exclusive release on CD-ROM, the game throws players into a battle led by space pirate Captain Hammer to reclaim the Earth - now known as Terra - from dreaded alien Kroll. The remarkable interactive world (for its time) presents opportunities to make allies, fight enemies, talk to others and learn about their lives, and explore the vast confines several planets, ships, and the Warlock, the pirate mothership. Combat plays a large role, letting you fight through most situations with fists and guns.

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[lotar732]

Thank you so much for uploading this!

[Obscuritory]

@lotar732 Pleasure. :) Very glad more people remember this.

[TokyoDawn1984]

Any chance of uploading the music to this game?

[Obscuritory]

@TokyoDawn1984 How I'd love to... getting the raw music files is impossible without having a copy of Macromind Director (not even Macromedia!), but I can attempt to rip a few songs by recording them.

People have requested the music from this quite a bit, as with Robot City. Before I start a playthrough of Eastern Mind, I might do a series of music uploads.

[madmadhatter]

Man, to think that there was a time when this was considered the height of CD-ROM technology. I remember playing this all the time when I was in junior high, must have been around 91 or 92 I guess, one of the first CD-ROMs right?

[Obscuritory]

@madmadhatter Right on! As far as I know, this is the first full-color CD-ROM game. There were other CD-ROM games out, but this one was a milestone for the visuals/multimedia. Most people didn't even have color Macs at the time of its release.

[Obscuritory]

@RiotShield Absolutely. I always keep saying "Sure I'll do this x day," but real-life stuff like work and classes keep getting in the way. But since Day 1 doing Spaceship Warlock, I wanted to do a compilation of all the crazy death scenes.

[RiotShield]

Any plans on showing a deathreel? Those're always fun to watch.

[Ma96MaNn]

Damn, the dancing native on the bar was so fucking hot!!!

[ithakra]

yes!! i had this game for my mac circa 1992 or 93? fantastic game!

[aylmer666]

ah yes, the BELSHAZZAR!

[JunkCCCP]

Hah, I remember this game. I think it came bundled with my first computer (a Packard-Bell running Windows 3.1.1). I could never get past the damn tunnel sequence...

[nannernanner]

I remember getting excited whenever we found a new drink to order + it was fun to annoy the cab driver by saying 'bub' back at him. Brain blast fizz!

[valcaron]

I blame this game for implanting an early-sprouting obsession with 3D graphics and fondness for Blade Runner-like visuals in my head for the rest of my life.

[Kaandorpius]

Oh man, i forgot the name, all i remembered was Belshazzar. Very strange and interesting game.

[JackiePaquito]

Awesome! Thank you for doing this video!! :D

[Ritchian]

I had not thought about this game in more than a decade. I remember playing this on my family's old computer as a kid and loving it. Most of the really old CD games of that era were, well, horrible. But Spaceship Warlock always stuck in my mind as one of the fun ones. I think it was that it gave you more freedom to do things than one would have expected from a game of it's ilk.

Thanks for uploading this. It's a nice nostalgia trip. Wonder if I still have my old CD somewhere.

[duckythebigmouth]

@mrphelps546 yea, you're probably right... but I do remember you were able to get so drunk that your POV became extremely blurry. I used to do that way too much.