Games for Windows 95 - Meltdown
Channel: Rayko Diarghi
Date: 2020-07-12

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I guess this is what you do when you are a proud studio, pushing forward what's possible in an era where some of these features are rare and mind blowing.

This is the first demo (according to the order I visit each demo), in the list. Combine cool music, some interesting graphics and you get a neat little demo.

The video here is in 2 sections: the first one showcasing the iconic Monolith's nuclear symbol, also shown in loading screens and other places in the Manhattan Space Station, bouncing around in the screen, with fireworks going off all over the place. The background is controllable with some keys, to make it rotate faster or slower, zoom in and out, and rotate in either direction.

The second part covers a few extra applications included in the demo's folder that aren't accessible from the station's menu. Maybe a small reward for those that dig deeper. Once again, we are presented with some music (which it's actually quite neat to hear), and some controllable graphics.

All in all, these were probably some tech demos from Monolith to showcase some of the things the studio was capable of doing with the brand new Windows 95 platform and the, quite revolutionary at the time, graphics and sound cards.

Monolith is the studio behind the space station, these demos and some games even, a studio funded in 1994, a year prior the release of Windows 95, that is still relevant today with titles such as Blood, Alien vs Predator 2, Tron 2.0, F.E.A.R and Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, to name a few. However, Warner Bros acquires the studio back in 2006 to take on a new direction under the WB flag.

Enjoy!

Monolith Productions Inc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith_Productions

Monolith Website
https://www.lith.com/

Return to Manhattan Space Station
https://youtu.be/ncX_sbIGxv8?t=190