several things recently have reminded me of this old trailer for a PC game called "Maabus" that i used to watch all the time as a kid. i did think the Advanced 3D Graphics were Super Cool and i did kind of want to know what was up with this weird robot adventure but mostly i was obsessed with this song (Think About The Way by Ice MC, an early 90s eurodance jam). this particular youtube upload cites having acquired it on a Softkey Game Empire shareware disk and i'm 99% sure that was also where i got it.
i'm realizing that in spite of remembering this sometime in the past few years and digging up this trailer then too, i don't think i bothered looking up any gameplay footage, and doing so now gives very few results on youtube. wild. so, as far as i can tell, this game was not particularly popular, and i wouldn't be surprised if more people remember this game from its trailer on shareware discs than from actually playing it. weird to think about lol
