The Big Red Adventure

The Big Red Adventure is an adventure game developed by Dynabyte and published by Core Design for the PC in 1995. It was released for the Amiga computers in 1997 by Power Computing on CD-ROM.[1]

The Big Red Adventure
Developer(s)Dynabyte
Publisher(s)Core Design
Platform(s)PC, Amiga
Release1995
Genre(s)Adventure game

The Big Red Adventure is a sequel to Dynabyte's Nippon Safes Inc., a title that had been "a moderate hit all around Europe", according to Hardcore Gaming 101. It was developed in Italy.[2]

Gameplay

The Big Red Adventure is a graphic adventure game controlled with a point-and-click interface.[1]

Plot

The Big Red Adventure follows the protagonists of Nippon Safes Inc.—Doug, Donna and Dino—as they find themselves in post-Soviet Russia. The villainous Doctor Virago hopes to revive Vladimir Lenin to help him revert Russia from capitalism to communism.[2]

Development

While The Big Red Adventure's predecessor Nippon Safes Inc. had featured pixel art graphics, that game's artist had left Dynabyte before the sequel's creation. As a result, the team digitized drawings done on paper to create the game's sprites.[2] The game was designed to use SVGA visuals.[3]

Developed in Italy, The Big Red Adventure was published by the British company Core Design.[2]

Reception

Writing for Amiga Format, Andy Smith called The Big Red Adventure "a jolly good game, accessible to people who don't normally play adventure games and yet convoluted enough for people who do."[1] Coming Soon Magazine praised the graphics and humour.[4] Generation 4 gave it 35%[5] while PC Joker gave it 36%.[6]

Hardcore Gaming 101 offered the game a generally negative review in 2016, citing its "obscure puzzles, lame humor and heavy-handed satire".[2]

References
  1. Smith, Andy (June 1997). "Review; Big Red Adventure". Amiga Format (98): 36, 37.
  2. Tiraboschi, Federico (November 2, 2016). "Big Red Adventure, The". Hardcore Gaming 101. Archived from the original on September 14, 2020.
  3. Staff (March 1995). "Big Red Adventure; Desde Rusia con humor". PC Manía (in Spanish) (29): 30, 31.
  4. "The Big Red Adventure - PC Review - Coming Soon Magazine". www.csoon.com. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
  5. http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Generation%204/generation4_numero077/Generation%204%20-%20077%20-%20Page%20124.jpg
  6. "Kultboy.com - DIE Kult-Seite über die alten Spiele-Magazine und Retro-Games!". www.kultboy.com. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
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