Mercenary - Box Art
Some more 80’s nostalgia - Retro Game Box Art from 1985; Mercenary was a very early attempt at FPS Sci-Fi adventuring with 3d wire-frame vectors to describe the game world as shown above. The whole design is of course a stab at virtual reality using an ‘advanced console’ and HUD (heads up display) to explore an immersive game world, ok that console might only of been the humble C64 or Speccy, but that’s not really the point. There’s a pure charm with these early ideas of machine/human interaction mirrored in movies and tv of the time; Tron, Last Starfighter, Airwolf, Firefox etc - more on these soon…..
Image sourced from Mobygames.com, read more about Mercenary here: http://www.mobygames.com/game/mercenary
