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''It Came From The Desert'' is an 1989 UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} game by Creator/{{Cinemaware}} about a young man discovering the existence of [[Film/{{Them}} giant ants hell bent on taking over the world]]. With help from a scientist and some friends, he will need to collect evidence within a time limit to convince the mayor to take action. Gameplay segments include interacting with [=NPCs=], knife fighting with a gang member, disabling giant ants with your pistol before getting attacked, fending off said ants with the help of thrown explosives, and eventually infiltrating the ants' base and blowing up the queen.
While mainly an Amiga game, with a follow up made for the system, it was also released for the UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer. Two remakes were completely different: a Turbo Grafx CD version InteractiveMovie [[VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert1992 version]] that had little to do with the original game (''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LVTS9ft4MU&list=WL76E87FF4DC3B5F2A riffed on it]]), and a UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis [[VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert2001 version]] that was an over-head shooter and was canceled by Creator/ElectronicArts when almost finished.
While mainly an Amiga game, with a follow up made for the system, it was also released for the UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer. Two remakes were completely different: a Turbo Grafx CD version InteractiveMovie [[VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert1992 version]] that had little to do with the original game (''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LVTS9ft4MU&list=WL76E87FF4DC3B5F2A riffed on it]]), and a UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis [[VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert2001 version]] that was an over-head shooter and was canceled by Creator/ElectronicArts when almost finished.
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''It Came From The Desert'' is an 1989 UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} Platform/{{Amiga}} game by Creator/{{Cinemaware}} about a young man discovering the existence of [[Film/{{Them}} giant ants hell bent on taking over the world]]. With help from a scientist and some friends, he will need to collect evidence within a time limit to convince the mayor to take action. Gameplay segments include interacting with [=NPCs=], knife fighting with a gang member, disabling giant ants with your pistol before getting attacked, fending off said ants with the help of thrown explosives, and eventually infiltrating the ants' base and blowing up the queen.
While mainly an Amiga game, with a follow up made for the system, it was also released for theUsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer.Platform/IBMPersonalComputer. Two remakes were completely different: a Turbo Grafx CD version InteractiveMovie [[VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert1992 version]] that had little to do with the original game (''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LVTS9ft4MU&list=WL76E87FF4DC3B5F2A riffed on it]]), and a UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Platform/SegaGenesis [[VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert2001 version]] that was an over-head shooter and was canceled by Creator/ElectronicArts when almost finished.
While mainly an Amiga game, with a follow up made for the system, it was also released for the
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* ShoutOut: To other Creator/{{Cinemaware}} games. If you visit the drive-in cinema while it is open but the Hellcats aren't there, it is showing VideoGame/RocketRanger and VideoGame/{{Wings}}.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Bert Lamont at the ''Desert Star'' is implied by other characters to be one of these.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Bert Lamont at the ''Desert ''Lizard Breath Star'' is implied by other characters to be one of these.
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* {{Prospector}}: Geez, who brings you the first clues. In full Wild West garb with a grey beard and a donkey.
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* ImmoralJournalist: Bert Lamont at the ''Desert Star'' is implied by other characters to be one of these.
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* RedHerring: Some of the clues are red herrings, such as the [[spoiler:mysterious lights out at the pump station]].
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* NuclearMutant: The game's antagonists are carpenter ants mutated into giant size by a radioactive meteorite.
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* NuclearMutant: The game's antagonists are carpenter harvester ants (''Pogonomyrmex rugosus'') mutated into giant size by a radioactive meteorite.
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* MagicMeteor: The source of the ants' mutation is not nuclear testing like in {{Film/Them}}, but rather the meteoroid ''Stohlheinz A221357'' which impacts just outside the town of Lizard Breath, California.
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* NuclearMutant: The game's antagonists are carpenter ants mutated into giant size by a radioactive meteorite.
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''It Came From The Desert'' is an 1989 UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} game by Creator/{{Cinemaware}} about a young man discovering the existence of [[Film/{{Them}} giant ants hell bent on taking over the world]]. With help from a scientist and some friends, he will need to collect evidence within a time limit to convince the mayor to take action. Gameplay segments include interacting with [=NPCs=], knife fighting with a gang member, shooting an Ant's antenna disabling giant ants with your pistol before getting attacked, fending off said ants, ants with the help of thrown explosives, and eventually infiltrating the ants ants' base and blowing up the queen.
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* NonLethalKO: No matter what happens to you - car crash, losing a knife fight, being chewed on by a giant ant - up until the end you won't actually die. The worst thing that'll happen is you'll end up in the hospital and lose time.
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* NonLethalKO: No matter what happens to you - car crash, plane crash, losing a knife fight, being chewed on by a giant ant - up until the end you won't actually die. The worst thing that'll happen is you'll end up in the hospital and lose time.
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** Hospital Escape: A [[StealthBasedMission stealth-based]] mini game where you need to sneak out from the hospital without the staff catching you.
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** Hospital Escape: A If you end up in the hospital, you can either accept the time loss or try to get out early by escaping. If you choose the latter, you play a [[StealthBasedMission stealth-based]] mini game where you need hide from hospital staff and try to sneak out from the hospital without the staff catching you.while they have their backs turned.
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* HintSystem: The town's fortune teller acts as an in-game hint system for what is happening and what you should be doing on any given day.
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* TimedMission: The entire game is a timed mission: you have 15 days to avert the antpocalypse.
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* GreaserDelinquents: The local gang known as "The Hellcats" will make your life hell on the roads until you defeat their leader.
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* MayorPain: The local mayor is incompetent and cowardly, and convincing him that there is anything amiss takes a ton of evidence.
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* MiniGame: Not surprising, as it was released in the golden age of mini games.
** Face-to-face shooting: When you encounter an ant at a location, you have to fight it with your trusty pistol. Unless you successfully [[spoiler:shoot its antennae off]], you'll get chewed on and end up in the hospital.
** Firefighting: If you pick ''one'' specific action on ''one'' specific day (the first), you have to use a hand-held extinguisher to try to extinguish a house fire before it lands you in the hospital.
** Flight: You can rent a plane at the local airfield and fly around the entire map to e.g. try to look for the location of the nest.
** GameOfChicken: Until you fight and best their leader, the local greasers will regularly interrupt your travels to challenge you to a game of chicken. Swerving will cost you several hours of time and crashing will land you in the hospital - you need to make them turn first.
** Hospital Escape: A [[StealthBasedMission stealth-based]] mini game where you need to sneak out from the hospital without the staff catching you.
** KnifeFight: Certain characters can turn hostile and pull a knife on you. Interesting in that even a small amount of damage will make you (or the opponent) start bleeding out, so it isn't so much about ''directly'' lowering your opponents' health bar to zero as getting a few blows in and then surviving long enough for it to drop to zero by itself.
** Top-down ant-fighting: After an ant attack, you usually have to fight more ants coming to the scene by throwing hand grenades and dynamite at them. If you manage to kill enough of them, the rest will flee. If you manage to convince the mayor of the seriousness of the situation, you also gain access to tanks and airstrikes.
** Face-to-face shooting: When you encounter an ant at a location, you have to fight it with your trusty pistol. Unless you successfully [[spoiler:shoot its antennae off]], you'll get chewed on and end up in the hospital.
** Firefighting: If you pick ''one'' specific action on ''one'' specific day (the first), you have to use a hand-held extinguisher to try to extinguish a house fire before it lands you in the hospital.
** Flight: You can rent a plane at the local airfield and fly around the entire map to e.g. try to look for the location of the nest.
** GameOfChicken: Until you fight and best their leader, the local greasers will regularly interrupt your travels to challenge you to a game of chicken. Swerving will cost you several hours of time and crashing will land you in the hospital - you need to make them turn first.
** Hospital Escape: A [[StealthBasedMission stealth-based]] mini game where you need to sneak out from the hospital without the staff catching you.
** KnifeFight: Certain characters can turn hostile and pull a knife on you. Interesting in that even a small amount of damage will make you (or the opponent) start bleeding out, so it isn't so much about ''directly'' lowering your opponents' health bar to zero as getting a few blows in and then surviving long enough for it to drop to zero by itself.
** Top-down ant-fighting: After an ant attack, you usually have to fight more ants coming to the scene by throwing hand grenades and dynamite at them. If you manage to kill enough of them, the rest will flee. If you manage to convince the mayor of the seriousness of the situation, you also gain access to tanks and airstrikes.
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* PointAndClickMap: The map uses a cursor for selecting which location to travel to. Each location does have a certain amount of time that passes while traveling, but waiting on the map also costs time.
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While mainly an Amiga game, with a follow up made for the system, it was also released for the UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer. Two remakes were completely different: a Turbo Grafx CD version InteractiveMovie [[VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert1992 version]] that relied heavily on FullMotionVideo and had little to do with the original game ({{WebVideo/Retsupurae}} (''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LVTS9ft4MU&list=WL76E87FF4DC3B5F2A riffed on it]]), and a UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version [[VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert2001 version]] that was an over-head shooter and was canceled by Creator/ElectronicArts when almost finished.
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* StealthBasedMission: Trying to escape the hospital has the player character run from medical staff to escape, who will chase him if they see him. He can also hide under beds to avoid detection.
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* StealthBasedMission: Trying to escape the hospital has the player character run from medical staff to escape, staff, who will chase him if they see him. He can also hide under beds bed covers to avoid detection.
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-> ''"The desert. Unchanged for millions of years. Yet witness to a biblical prophecy come true that one day, the meek shall inherit the earth."''
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->''"The desert. Unchanged for millions of years. Yet witness to a biblical prophecy come true that one day, the meek shall inherit the earth."''
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-> ''"The desert. Unchanged for millions of years. Yet witness to a biblical prophecy come true that one day, the meek shall inherit the earth."''
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''It Came From The Desert'' is an 1989 UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} game by Creator/{{Cinemaware}} about a young man discovering the existence of [[Film/{{Them}} giant ants hell bent on taking over the world]]. With help from a scientist and some friends, he will need to collect evidence within a time limit to convince the mayor to take action. Gameplay segments include interacting with [=NPCs=], knife fighting with a gang member, shooting an Ant's antenna before getting attacked, fending off said ants, and eventually infiltrating the ants base and blowing up the queen.
While mainly an Amiga game, with a follow up made for the system, it was also released for the UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer. Two remakes were completely different: a Turbo Grafx CD version that relied heavily on FullMotionVideo and had little to do with the original game ({{WebVideo/Retsupurae}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LVTS9ft4MU&list=WL76E87FF4DC3B5F2A riffed on it]]), and a UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version that was an over-head shooter and was canceled by Creator/ElectronicArts when almost finished.
In 2017, a low-budget [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4288674/ film]] was made, changing much of the story. It does play snippets of the original Amiga game during the end credits.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* ClearMyName: The sequel has the main character on the run from being accused of starting the incident. [[spoiler: Turns out the Antheads are spreading this to quietly resume their invasion.]]
* MissionPackSequel: At the time, to get the sequel to the original game "Antheads, It 2", you had to contact the publisher and purchase it from them directly. The story continues off right after the first game and has the same engine.
* MsFanservice: The busty candy-striper who is obviously flirting with Dr. Bradley when he's recovering in the hospital. [[NotDistractedByTheSexy But he must escape: there is work to do!]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: In ''Antheads'', you have the option to pez any human you suspect to be an anthead. The option? '''PEZ HIM/HER'''.
* NPCScheduling: One of the first games to feature this. Learning where everyone is going to be at what times is crucial to conducting your investigation.
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-->-- '''Opening narration'''
''It Came From The Desert'' is an 1989 UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} game by Creator/{{Cinemaware}} about a young man discovering the existence of [[Film/{{Them}} giant ants hell bent on taking over the world]]. With help from a scientist and some friends, he will need to collect evidence within a time limit to convince the mayor to take action. Gameplay segments include interacting with [=NPCs=], knife fighting with a gang member, shooting an Ant's antenna before getting attacked, fending off said ants, and eventually infiltrating the ants base and blowing up the queen.
While mainly an Amiga game, with a follow up made for the system, it was also released for the UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer. Two remakes were completely different: a Turbo Grafx CD version that relied heavily on FullMotionVideo and had little to do with the original game ({{WebVideo/Retsupurae}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LVTS9ft4MU&list=WL76E87FF4DC3B5F2A riffed on it]]), and a UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version that was an over-head shooter and was canceled by Creator/ElectronicArts when almost finished.
In 2017, a low-budget [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4288674/ film]] was made, changing much of the story. It does play snippets of the original Amiga game during the end credits.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* ClearMyName: The sequel has the main character on the run from being accused of starting the incident. [[spoiler: Turns out the Antheads are spreading this to quietly resume their invasion.]]
* MissionPackSequel: At the time, to get the sequel to the original game "Antheads, It 2", you had to contact the publisher and purchase it from them directly. The story continues off right after the first game and has the same engine.
* MsFanservice: The busty candy-striper who is obviously flirting with Dr. Bradley when he's recovering in the hospital. [[NotDistractedByTheSexy But he must escape: there is work to do!]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: In ''Antheads'', you have the option to pez any human you suspect to be an anthead. The option? '''PEZ HIM/HER'''.
* NPCScheduling: One of the first games to feature this. Learning where everyone is going to be at what times is crucial to conducting your investigation.
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