Final Countdown - Amiga - Investigating the files
1. Intro Final Countdown is a relatively obscure Amiga game that is often compared with Impossible Mission (a game I don’t know), created by German developers Demonware. The entire game is a kind of big puzzle; the protagonist, Laira Tyrik, is a human scientist (wearing unusual clothes for a scientist) in the year 2437 that is transported to an “asteroid” to investigate. The asteroid is actually a spaceship coming to our solar system, and it seems unfriendly. Laira has to avoid obstacles that can kill her, and find information about how to disable the asteroid’s systems so it does not destroy Earth. She can try to access the computers that are available in many places in order to manipulate the ship systems and gather information. The game is hard to figure out, and there is no guide anywhere on the internet about how to finish it. After watching Eric from Cosmic Effect play the game and get stuck in it, I tried to play and got stuck the same way. So I decided to look in