Heaven/TQA Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Just read the ABBUC Magazine and the small letter from David Fox & Chris Crawford greeting ABBUC for 25th anniversary. Cool. If you missed RG #44 regarding Rescue on Fractalus you can find the article on David's website: http://electriceggplant.com/media/RG44_RescueOnFractalus.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Interesting that Atari funded lucasfilm's entry into videogames to the tune of 1m USD (possibly another 'Atari' spin off, alongside Activision, imagic, amiga and others) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted December 29, 2010 Author Share Posted December 29, 2010 same with Microsoft & Sony paying some bucks for having exclusive titles for their platform... so nothing changed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 same with Microsoft & Sony paying some bucks for having exclusive titles for their platform... so nothing changed... Too bad Atari didn't have the same leverage when the Jaguar was out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 A million bucks was a buttload back then. Would probably have covered the budget for doing a dozen or more games in 1984. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 A million bucks was a buttload back then. Would probably have covered the budget for doing a dozen or more games in 1984. Or just one if the game was ET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Yeah... I just meant the dev part though, not the decision to make 50 times more copies of a crap game that would have been needed to satisfy sales demand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 It's also interesting that Atari was apparently responsible for leaking pre-release versions of the games. I remember the first time I saw BallBlaster. I'm pretty sure it was the first time I'd seen convincing 1st person action on the Atari. I 'bout crapped my pants. Here's a little more info from David Fox (interesting what he says about the bright flashes in Fractalus): http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/FOX.HTM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomSW Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Hmmm... Why no greetings from Cindy Crawford? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Hmmm... Why no greetings from Cindy Crawford? I'll ask her. Oh, darling... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+StaxX28 Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 I found a PC remake of ROF, still in development : http://www.lsdwa.com/projects/fractalus/ enjoy ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Hello ThomSW Hmmm... Why no greetings from Cindy Crawford? You're probably mistaking David Fox for Samantha Fox. sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miker Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 hahaha ++ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 You're probably mistaking David Fox for Samantha Fox. sincerely Mathy Yeah - that's a fairly easy mistake vs. Had to - just for the eye-candy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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