The game was also released on October 2023 for the Evercade platforms as part of Delphine collection cartridge and it's based on the original Megadrive/Genesis version.

It was originally advertised as a "CD-ROM game on a cartridge", and features fully hand-drawn backdrops and rotoscoped animation, with unusually fluid movements similar to Prince of Persia from 1989.

As Conrad progresses through the game's seven levels, he is increasingly presented with spatial puzzles, requiring the player to discover how to guide him toward his destination.

While exploring his surroundings, Conrad comes across a recording containing a message made by himself, advising him to find his friend Ian in the city of New Washington on the planet.

The device causes Conrad to recall that he had recently made a visor designed for analysing the density of molecular structures in organic life, but through its use had inadvertently discovered an alien species called Morphs had infiltrated human society.

Seeking to uncover more, Conrad vows to return to Earth to inform his superiors, but is informed by Ian his only hope of leaving Titan is to win a ticket in a gladiatorial deathmatch game known as "Death Tower", alongside acquiring forged papers - the latter requiring Conrad to take on a series of dangerous jobs around New Washington.

After acquiring both, Conrad returns to Earth, but finds that Morph infiltrators were prepared, forcing him to defend himself while breaching their hideout under a local nightclub.

Inside the hideout, Conrad spies on a group of Morphs through a vent, hearing them discussing their plan to conquer Earth thanks to their subtle efforts to give them new technology they can utilize.

Uncovering his diary, Conrad learns Phillip had been manipulated to help the Morphs plans for conquering humanity, and had thus sent blueprints for the visor technology to Titan, hoping someone would attempt to recreate it.

Conrad learns that the atomic charge he was given was designed to destroy the "Master Brain", an entity that controls the Morphs deep within the planet's core.

Unable to navigate back home due to the galaxy he is now in, Conrad puts himself in suspended animation while his ship drifts into space, leading up to the events of Fade to Black.

In the Amiga version, the user can see these scenes by enabling them (although with few seconds of delay every time the animations load) or by playing the game entirely from the hard drive.

[2] In North America, the Genesis, Super NES and Sega CD versions featured a Marvel comic book within the manual in order to explain the initial story.

[6] Flashback, along with Another World, shipped as a single retail package by Microids for the PlayStation 4, Switch and Xbox One in Europe on April 16, 2020.

[23] Computer Gaming World approved of Flashback's "superbly rotoscoped graphics", "fluid movement", and sound card audio.

[10] GamePro, in contrast, argued that the reworked cutscenes "look so awesome that even gamers who've already completed this game on another platform will want to play it again just to see all the new CD footage".

However, he lauded Flashback itself for its graphics, animation and "fiendishly clever puzzles", and said that though the game superficially resembles Another World and Heart of the Alien, it is "in a class by itself that easily surpasses them".

[11] Entertainment Weekly similarly said that Flashback held up well, but that the Sega CD version's improvements seem less significant than its frequent load times.

Flashback makes us feel like we're in that alien world, and with its lifelike animation and excellent moves, we can't help but love it.

They also praised the combination of action and adventure style puzzle challenges, summarizing: "The game itself is a [..] of an experience and the excellent plot also keeps the whole thing incredibly atmospheric.

In early 2013, a game titled Flashback Origins was rumored to be in development, with the French website Gameblog stating that €300,000 of government funding had been granted to Cuisset's VectorCell in 2011.