#pacific softscape

Generations Lost, 1994

Generations Lost

Generations Lost is a mystery of a video game. There aren’t even any sources to tell when exactly it was released. In clarifying this mystery, the game affords two approaches, the first being to look at the parties behind its creation. Between Time Warner’s involvement as publisher, the frequent invocations of “from the creators of X-Men [the 1993 Genesis game]” in advertisements, and the game’s high production values, what’s clear is that those involved with its creation had significant plans for Generations Lost. But what exactly were those plans? And what is one to make of Pacific SoftScape, the developer behind the game? Outside their ambiguous connections with Western Technologies, Generations Lost was their first game, and their only notable project outside some minor Sega Channel work. So unfortunately this approach raises more questions than it answers.