Alpha Waves

Alpha Waves (also released as Continuum) is a 3D platformer video game published in 1990 by Infogrames. It was released for the Atari ST, Amiga, and MS-DOS-based home computers. The player explores a labyrinth by moving their craft around a world, bouncing on platforms. The game has a new age theme in presentation and marketing.

It was developed initially for the Atari ST by Christophe de Dinechin for Infogrames. Inspired by Starglider 2 (1988) by Argonaut Games, Dinechin began working on how to create 3D graphics for the Atari ST which he pitched to Infogrames, and the company hired him to develop it into a full game. The game was ported to the Amiga and MS-DOS by Frédérick Raynal.

The game was given a new age theme by Infogrames, which Dinechin and Raynal later felt was a mistake. It was later released as Continuum by Data East. Reviews for the game complimented the games originality, with some publications giving mixed reception to the long lasting appeal of the game and its new age themes. Dinechin would not make another commercial video game, while Raynal said that working on Alpha Waves "made [him] think in 3D" and would later apply his knowledge of 3D games to his adventure game Alone in the Dark (1992).