Photoboy

Photoboy was game released for the Turbo Grafx 16 and was a video game that centered around taking pictures of things going on around the main character. It featured interactive environments in which the player could interact with and photograph.

Story

Photoboy's parents are killed in a horrible plane crash, and he is fostered into the care of a well known magazine editor who trains Photoboy from his youth to be an expert photographer. The expectations his foster father lays upon him are at times more than he can handle. Photoboy finds it increasingly difficult to please his foster father as he progresses through life.

As he is ordered to new locations to photograph the surroundings he learns more and more about life and grows as a human. In his time photographing suburbia he finds that mundane lifestyle has made many of them aloof and perverse. Then in his video documentation of the inner city he is shocked by the crime and poverty that exist so close to the neighbouring suburbs. He is marvelled at the culture of ancient civilizations as his job takes him to the museum of history, he finds the joy of life while photographing a circus which is in town, and experiences a whole new world and broadened horizons as he ventures under the sea to catch fish and undersea life in their natural habitat.

Gameplay

Players must guide Photoboy through the given level attempting to photograph rare or exceptional occurrences which transpire around him, all the while evading obstacles that may injure Photoboy.

External links

*Screenshots from VGmuseum: http://www.vgmuseum.com/images/tg16/01/photoboy.html
*Review: http://www.namakoteam.com/news.php?id=159