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By the way, [http://www.foxysofts.com/?l=content/gba/anworld.inc here]'s an official freeware GBA port (also playable on emulators, of course).
The official PC version of the game can be bought from [https://web.archive.org/web/20131024011612/http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage Good Old Games.]
An iOS version of the game optimized for both iPhone and iPad, featuring added difficulty levels (both easier and harder) and both the original and remastered graphics and sound, is currently available.
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The PC-DOS port (along with all the subsequent ports) added an entire stage between the scene where Buddy rescues Lester from a long dead-end corridor, but before they enter the gladiator arena. The 3DO version also adds an extended ending which serves as a teaser to ''Heart of the Alien'' (which strangely was never released for the 3DO).
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: Both the SNES and Genesis versions place [http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1166567070-00.jpg extra] [http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1157509583-00.jpg emphasis] on the Beast.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Lester.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: Alien blood and nudity were edited out of the North American SNES version (Chahi cynically defined "nudity" as the censors complaining about "three pixels of too much butt-crack" on a female alien, which were simply required to be shortened rather than removing the actual "nude").
* [[Cardboard Prison]]: Lester and Buddy's ceiling-suspended cage.
* [[The Cavalry]]: Lester is cornered in a room with no exits to his right and the enemies are coming in force from the left. Buddy appears from an above [[Air Vent Passageway]], grabs Lester's arm and saves him not a moment too soon.
* [[Charged Attack]]: Your gun has the ability to charge up into a powerful blast that can destroy a thick metal door in one shot.
* [[Cool Car]]: Lester's black Ferrari in the opening cinematic.
* [[Cutscene]]: There's a few.
* [[Death by Looking Up]]: Lester swinging the cage he's suspended in, causing it to crash on his guard's head. Another clever puzzle involves a balcony above a patrolling guard. His reflection is seen on some hanging globes; shooting at the globe sends it plummeting onto his skull.
* [[Deflector Shields]]: Temporary and stationary force shields that are created by charging the pistol for a second and releasing a newly formed [[Energy Ball]] to create a shield. They only protect Lester from standard shots, charged shots destroys them, and anything else can pass by them. The enemies has access to permanent kind, and are able to make the balls travel a short distance, usually from off-screen, before creating a shield.
* [[Disintegrator Ray]]: The pistol reduces everyone to the scorched skeleton, which then explodes by itself, leaving nothing behind.
* [[Enemy Rising Behind]]: The tentacled monster at the beginning of the game, which will grab you if you don't leave the vicinity of the pool after escaping from it.
* [[Energy Ball]]: Charging the pistol can make two kinds of these: smaller ones for creating Force shields and the bigger ones for discharging a very powerful blast.
* [[Energy Weapon]]: Everyone's gun.
* [[Escape Pod]]: The tank in the gladiator arena has one that Lester and Buddy used to make their escape.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: Probably one of the more extreme examples of this. Even the ''slugs'' in this game are deadly.
* [[Falling Chandelier of Doom]]: See [[Death by Looking Up]] above.
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* [[Gentle Giant]]: Buddy, Lester's alien ally who helps him escape but leaves the fighting up to Lester until the very end.
* [[Gladiator Games]]: The tank sequence.
* [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Grey Skinned Space Babes]]: Near the conclusion of the game, Lester and Buddy crash-land into a swimming pool populated by [[Hartman Hips|distinctly female]] aliens (see [[
* [[Groin Attack]]: How Lester escapes the grasp of a jailer. Some things ''really are'' universal.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Several examples, including the tank button puzzle.
* [[Have a Nice Death]]: ''Heart of the Alien'' includes cutscenes, most of which depict the many ways Buddy got killed.
** The 20th anniversary editions of ''Another World'' has an achievement system (save for the [[GoG]] version). One achievement is called "Free Fall", which is granted immediately after Lester falls from a great height at a certain level. The timing is pretty funny.
* [[Heroic Mime]]: Although pretty much ''everyone'' keeps very quiet (and the alien language is impossible to understand anyway).
**
* [[Homage]]: When fully-charged, Lester's gun bears more than a slight resemblance to a [[Dragonball Z|Kamehameha]]... Incidentally, at the time of development, Chahi was busy reading ''DBZ'' mangas during coding breaks.
* [[Leap of Faith]]
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: When combined with a [[Magical Particle Accelerator]]. Like transporting someone to another world.
* [[The Many Deaths of You]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the sequel. See [[Have a Nice Death]] above.
* [[Market-Based Title]]: Retitled ''Out of This World'' in North America to avoid confusion with the unrelated soap opera ''Another World''. Ironically, there was a sitcom called ''Out of This World'' that premiered around the same time as the game.
* [[Master of Unlocking]]: Buddy is apparently quite good at lock picking, as he jimmies the doors open during the level two prison break using...nothing, apparently? This might go a long way toward explaining why he's in prison in the first place.
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* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: In the finale, Lester {{spoiler|loses his gun and is pummeled senseless by a red-eyed alien. Buddy comes to the rescue, and the two grapple while Lester painfully crawl across the screen and activate the laser, fragging the doppelganger}}.
* [[No Biochemical Barriers]]: Poisonous slugs can kill Lester instantly.
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: Lester is as vulnerable as a newborn on this hostile world. Anything from aliens shooting lasers, rocks falling, even leeches, will kill him instantly on contact. To be fair, most of the things that kill Lester in the game would most likely instantly kill a real human as well, including the poisonous leeches. The aliens also die just as easily to a single laser blast from your stolen gun.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Lester can't talk to any of the aliens and as such doesn't even know his alien buddy's name. As such, he's commonly referred to simply as [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Buddy]].
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: {{spoiler|In the ending cinematic}}.
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* [[Scenery Porn]]
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: The game's ambiguous ending can be interpreted this way, although storyboards for a non-produced ending depict the character surviving and becoming a leader in the alien world. The sequel has him {{spoiler|survive, only to be [[Killed Off for Real]] in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] halfway through the game}}.
* [[Silence Is Golden]]: This game shows a lot, and almost never tells.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[Flashback (video game)|Flashback]]'' (made without Chahi's involvement), ''[[Heart of Darkness (video game)|Heart of Darkness]]'' (a later effort by Chahi).
* [[Stripped to the Bone]]: The alien laser guns instantly reduce anyone they hit to a charred skeleton.
* [[Take My Hand]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]. In the game's final sequence, {{spoiler|Buddy rescues Lester from a plunge off of a ledge. Then smashes Lester against the wall, crippling him! Turns out, that's not Buddy}}! Damn aliens, [[You All Look Familiar]]!
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: The title. Depending on where you lived in the '90s, it could also be Trapped in Out of This World, or Trapped in an Outer World.
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: Many of the game's deathtraps are virtually impossible to anticipate without prior knowledge, and in many cases you'll keep dying until you figure out EXACTLY what the game wants you to do and where and when it wants you to do it, common sense be damned.
* [[Unwinnable by Design]]: Forget to shoot out the pit wall before flooding the caves? You're fucked. Fail to [[Guide Dang It|shoot the lamp chain blocking Buddy in the crawlspace]]? You're also fucked. If Buddy dies, you're also screwed. There are several other possible unwinnable situations, and yes, the game actually has passwords for them, which rates the game as '''Evil''' on the [[Unwinnable by Design|extended cruelty scale]].
** The iOS version remedies this: if you have failed to do something that is necessary to complete the game, you will not activate the next checkpoint.
* [[Updated Rerelease]]: First as a port to DOS/Mac from Amiga which added a new level, then the 3DO version has a different art style (besides the character models), and of course the 15th Anniversary edition which is based on the PC version and has more detailed backgrounds and runs in high-res.
** Followed by the
* [[Videogame Set Piece]]: '''Many''' of them, including:
** The specific places in the game where your ally does something to rescue you;
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** Special environmental features that show up only once each, such as {{spoiler|the floor that grenades can destroy}}, {{spoiler|the bat that the tentacle monster will eat}}, {{spoiler|the vine that you can swing from}}, {{spoiler|the glass globe that you must drop on an enemy}}, and {{spoiler|the aforementioned lamp chain}}.
* [["What Now?" Ending]]: {{spoiler|Lester and Buddy escape, but Lester is badly hurt and it's not clear what awaits them beyond the city or if Lester will ever get home. Worse, some interpreted the ending to mean that Lester had actually died mere yards from freedom, although [[Word of God]] and the eventual sequel countermand this}}.
▲** [[Downer Ending]]: In ''Heart of the Alien'', {{spoiler|Lester is fragged by an electric field and dies}}.
* [[You All Look Familiar]]: The aliens are identical except for occasional helmets or topknots. Buddy can be differentiated from the others only because he's unarmed.
* [[You All Meet in a Cell]]
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