What should have been a fun virtual vacation for industrious construction worker, Arnie Schwarzenegger, posing as a secret agent sent on a covert mission stationed on Mars, turns into the epitome of bad trips. Quaid's routine procedure at Rekall triggers dormant, suppressed memories of his former life as a genuine undercover operative, leading him to question the veracity of every aspect of his fragile, ostensible existence. Disentwining fact from fiction draws Quaid into conflict with his former employer, governor Vilos Cohaagen, exposing an espionage plot that can only be elucidated via a recording of himself pre-memory wipe. No wonder he's been suffering from recurring nightmares!Ocean Software's accompanying action-platform game endured a rocky road to release having been worked on by a third party who spent many months maintaining a facade of developmental progress without actually achieving anything tangible. Eventually rumbled, at the 11th-hour Total Recall was re-designed by a rapidly assembled in-house Ocean rescue team and ultimately published while the source material remained a relevant, viable bandwagon. What emerged is an amalgam of scrolling platform stages traversed on foot and combative driving missions, complemented by some of the Amiga's most atmospheric, captivating music.