Little Big Adventure

Little Big Adventure
European MS-DOS cover art
Developer(s)Adeline Software International
Publisher(s)
Electronic Arts
Director(s)Frédérick Raynal
Producer(s)Randall Breen
Designer(s)
Programmer(s)Frantz Cournil
Olivier Lhermite
Serge Plagnol
Frédérick Raynal
Laurent Salmeron
Artist(s)Didier Chanfray
Yaél Barroz
Jean-Marc Torroella
Writer(s)Jean-Jacques Poncet
Composer(s)Philippe Vachey
Platform(s)MS-DOS, PC-98, FM Towns, PlayStation, Android, iOS
Release
1994
  • MS-DOS
  • PC-98
    • JP: 15 December 1995
  • FM Towns
    • JP: 15 December 1995
  • PlayStation
    • JP: 19 July 1996
    • UK: 28 March 1997[4]
  • Android, iOS
    • WW: 27 March 2014
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single player

Little Big Adventure is a 1994 action-adventure game developed by Adeline Software International. It was published in Europe by Electronic Arts, and by Activision in North America, Asia and Oceania under the name Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure. Over 500,000 copies were sold by 1999. The game was initially released on CD-ROM and some time later on floppy disks; the CD-ROM version features full-motion video, music and speech whereas the floppy disk version has MIDI music files and still images to replace the videos. The game was later ported to the PC-98 and FM Towns and was released in Japan in 1995. It was released for the PlayStation in Japan and Europe in 1996 and 1997 respectively, and to Android and iOS devices in 2014.[5]

In 1997, a PC-only sequel was released under the name of Little Big Adventure 2 (also known as Twinsen's Odyssey).

On October 20, 2015, an "Enhanced Edition" developed by DotEmu was released on Steam, alongside a re-release of the original game.[6] In October 2021 both Little Big Adventure 1 and 2 engines source code were released under the GPL.[7]

  1. ^ Wynn, Aidan (22 November 1994). "Just add humour for an interactive romp". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 33. Retrieved 28 June 2024. Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure was released by Electronic Arts on November 18 for 486 or faster computers.
  2. ^ "Little Big Adventure". Jeuxvideo.com. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Little Big Adventure". Wishaw World. December 16, 1994. p. 18. Retrieved June 28, 2024. One of the best PC CD games of the year hits the gaming shelves this week.
  4. ^ "PlayStation Games". Staffordshire Newsletter. 28 March 1997. p. 488. Retrieved 28 June 2024. Little Big Adventure...all just in stock.
  5. ^ "Nineties PC Adventure Game Little Big Adventure Gets an Android Port". AndroidShock. 27 March 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-04-08. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  6. ^ "LBA on Steam". Store.steampowered.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-28. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Little Big Adventure 1 & 2 get open sourced under the GPL". 27 October 2021.