20181009

gee bee air rally farmer's daughters (1988)

one of my most memorable/unexpected amiga experiences was playing activision's "gee bee air rally" (a fun plane race game set in the 1920's), and stumbling into this rather sexy and well-drawn post-parachuting sequence. usually you landed in a tree, a scorched desert or a mud filled pigpen (at least you hope that's mud). but here... well, you might not be wanting to get back to the race for a while!

anyway, to my frustration decades later, there were zero screenshots of the amiga version of the scene to be found online, save a small jpeg whose lossy compression naturally destroyed the true pixel-level art (always use gif or png for these things, guys). so i installed an amiga emulator, downloaded the game disk image, hunted around for kickstart roms, fiddled with configurations, played the game for two hours until i got to the sequence in question (which naturally wouldn't appear until you had the emulator set for 100% compatibility), and finally capped it for posterity:


you're welcome. (on a related note, i also finally completed the commodore 64 "farmer's daughter" x-rated text adventure: god, those old grue-filled parser games were soooo maddening. and even don't get me started on the babel fish dispenser in infocom's version of hitchhiker's guide...)