 flashback, released as flashback: the quest for identity in the united states, is a 1992 science fiction cinematic platform game developed by delphine software of france and published by u.s. gold in united states and europe, and sunsoft in japan. the game was directed, written/designed and partially programmed by paul cuisset, who had previously created the adventure game future wars. flashback was initially released for the amiga in 1992, then ported to ms-dos, acorn archimedes, sega mega drive/genesis and super nintendo in 1993. cd-rom versions of flashback for the mega-cd, 3do, cd-i, ms-dos, apple macintosh and the fm towns were released during 1994 and 1995, together with a cartridge version for the atari jaguar in 1995. originally advertised as a "cd-rom game on a cartridge", the game features fully hand-drawn backdrops and all animation is rotoscoped, giving movements an unusual fluidity, similar to that of the earlier prince of persia. the capture technique of flashback was invented independently of prince of persia, and used a more complicated method of first tracing video images onto transparencies. the game was a commercial and critical success and was listed in the guinness world records as the best-selling french game of all time. it was followed by a sequel titled fade to black in 1995. in 2013, a flashback remake by vectorcell was released for the pc and consoles. ==gameplay== frame|left|conrad, left, fighting two corrupt cops (sega mega drive/genesis version) as a cinematic platformer, flashback features gameplay similar to that of 1989's prince of persia, 
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