Developer: | Metropolis Software House | | | Release Date: | 1995 | | | Systems: | DOS, Amiga |
This month on
Super Adventures I'm playing another point and click adventure game! But this time there's a twist: I have absolutely zero idea what this is. All I know is that GOG.com gave it to me for free when I signed up and the graphics looked a bit amateurish in the screenshots.
One thing I'm sure of though is that it's got nothing to do with the 1991
Teen Agent movie (called
If Looks Could Kill in the US). This is
Teenagent, one word; totally different thing. I'm guessing that it's probably a play on the word 'teenager'. It might also be a play on the word 'newsagent' but I'm kinda hoping it isn't as I'd rather jet around the world immersing myself in international intrigue than sell crisps. In fact I'd better check Wikipedia to make sure...
...oh that's interesting, it turns out that
Teenagent was the first Polish game to be released on CD, though it seems GOG's given me the floppy disk version without the voice acting because those voices were all in Polish. I'm not considering that to be a problem. Plus it's running through ScummVM, but that's not a problem for me either.
Wikipedia also tells me that developer Metropolis Software isn't quite as obscure as I thought, as they made games like
Gorky 17 and
Infernal. In fact it was one of the longest operating game development studios in Poland before getting bought by CD Projekt in 2008 and shut down in 2009. Another fun fact: it was founded by opinionated video games bloke Adrian Chmielarz, who did programming and writing for
Teenagent, before going off to make
Painkiller and
Bulletstorm for his new company People Can Fly, and
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter for his newer company The Astronauts. So that's interesting.
Okay I'm going to take screenshots of the first hour or so and write words under them now.
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