Mercenary – Box Art

Some more 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 to explore an immersive game world. Admittedly that ‘console’ was just a humble Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum.

There’s a pure charm with these early ideas of machine/human interaction mirrored in movies and televison of the time: Tron, Last Starfighter, Airwolf, Firefox all spring to mind.

Image sourced from Mobygames.com, read more about Mercenary here: http://www.mobygames.com/game/mercenary