The full title of Flashback, identical to the base game. Pick either, the content and quality are the same as under the short name.
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Action Adventure1 player12+
Description
Daniel Quest battles enemies and recovers his lost identity in this American version of Delphine Software's masterpiece. Published by Sega, released in the United States in January 1994. Cinematic action-adventure with gunfight, rotoscoped animations and puzzle solving in a sci-fi universe.
Flashback - The Quest for Identity review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Delphine Software animates its hero from live footage traced frame by frame, giving the run, the jump and the roll an unusual weight. The scenery is built from hand-painted planes, the jungle of Titan, a vertical city, a television studio, and the cutscenes take up the framing of comics.
A man wakes with no memory on a moon of Saturn, his only clue a message he recorded himself before the erasure. The quest for identity doubles as a graver discovery: creatures able to take human shape have already infiltrated the seats of power. The story advances through dry revelations, never lingering.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
Q1 damagedQ6 completeQ10 new
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Collector interest
Flashback The Quest for Identity NTSC is the American edition of the Delphine game, distributed by U.S. Gold with the Quest for Identity subtitle specific to the US market. Its collector value comes from this unique Western naming and from the fact that the cartridge remains one of the most memorable Delphine productions of the 16-bit era.
Is Flashback - The Quest for Identity still worth playing in 2026?
A cinematic platform adventure by Delphine Software, Flashback offers an atypical narrative experience inspired by Another World with sublime rotoscope animation and exploration based puzzles. The Mega CD version benefits from redrawn cutscenes and a redbook soundtrack that transform the atmosphere. Difficult but deeply immersive, the title keeps a unique evocative force and remains one of the great narrative games of the nineties absolutely worth discovering in this enriched version for genre fans today still on the console truly.
