Victor Mildew wrote:I started this a few days ago. Old game quirks aside, the first game holds up so well. Dripping in atmosphere. Just got to the cistern which is a GOAT level, really compact and memorable.
I was saying to my wife how groundbreaking it was at the time. Up until then I had a megadrive/cd/32x, and virtua racing aside my gaming was still in the sonic the hedgehog realm, so going from that to the first tomb raider game was mind blowing.
When the theme music randomly kicks in
I can definitely relate to this, I was a Saturn gamer in the mid ‘90s and Tomb Raider represented a huge step forward from the late gen SNES stuff I was enjoying at the time like Killer Instinct and Yoshi’s Island. I remember playing through the game together with my brother but we got stuck at the Cistern level. We even traded in actual games at Electronics Boutique to get hold of the strategy guide for Tomb Raider. I have no memories of the last few levels (except that Ms Natla was a gooseberry fool boss) of that game as we kept referring to the guide which I regret.
I remember having a sleepover at a friend’s house at the time and he had the same game on his PlayStation. I remember telling him how much better it looked and ran on his console and how proud he was
, smiling and nodding such was the console wars of the time.
I was very sad to find out that he was murdered during covid, brutally stabbed to death. This has nothing to do with Tomb Raider but it did make me sad and I remember that time fondly, like my own personal Stand By Me conclusion.