figgler Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Recently picked up these 2 titles and I remember reading soemwhere that the they were the first games that were linked - part of the same story. I don't think the manuals don't really make it clear how the 2 are connected, just something about atlanteans on the cosmic ark. What's the story? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Marketing. Cross-sell. I doubt there was anything more to it than that. (Certainly nothing within the games themselves.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scmor92 Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 When your game of Atlantis ends, you see a little ship take off and escape into space. That ship is the Cosmic Ark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scmor92 Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 When your game of Atlantis ends, you see a little ship take off and escape into space. That ship is the Cosmic Ark. See, I knew being a member of the Numb Thumb Club would pay off someday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Funny, I could have sworn that the little ship was identical to the one that flies away when the Cosmic Ark gets destroyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 And at the end of Cosmic Ark there is the same ship again (though much smaller of course ). So the end was still open and Imagic could have done another sequel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phosphor Dot Fossils Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 We might need to ask Rob Fulop on this, but wasn't there a third game at least at the concept stage to feature that little ship? Or maybe after a while it gets to be like a James Bond villain - at the end of every future Imagic game, we would've seen that damn little flying saucer take off. Lost your game of Shooting Gallery? Wheeeeee! There goes the little ship. Or maybe not. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Ah yes, I remember that connection now. (I have never really liked Atlantis, so I don't play it much.) OK... so you've got a little ship that flies away at the end of both games. That's a pretty weak connection. I suppose if the Atlantis world is destroyed, the people who escaped could then explore the galaxy looking for creatures to steal from their home worlds to use to populate a new one of their own. (Come to think of it, Cosmic Ark's concept is rather disturbing. At least it's fun to play! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcostin Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 The little ship that escapes in the end of Atlantis looks like the one you use to beam up the various critters in Cosmic Ark. I always figured the Cosmic Ark dropped in to rescue a couple of inhabitants when Atlantis was destroyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 http://www.digitpress.com/archives/arc00132.htm DP: Is there some kind of connection with Cosmic Ark and Dennis Koble's Atlantis? RF: Oh, right, the little space ship! At the end of Cosmic Ark, this little space ship flew away, and we wound up putting it in Atlantis. We were going to put the ship in a bunch of games. my guess: a cute visual that Koble and Fulop came up with that was turned into a gimmick by the marketing department. The magazines of the time suggested that after Atlantis is destroyed, the Ark is sent out to repopulate the planet. Who knows if this was Imagic's story or something a bored game reviewer came up with? Now have fun with THIS quote RF: The little green saucer, which appears in Cosmic Ark, flies around somewhere in Fathom, but I don’t recall how to trigger it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 RF: The little green saucer, which appears in Cosmic Ark, flies around somewhere in Fathom, but I don’t recall how to trigger it. IMO that's only a rumour. I have searched the code hunting for that EE and found no traces of a saucer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Well there you go. Why would the dolphin be riding a spaceship anyway? At least they didn't try fitting the saucer into Fire Fighter and Riddle of the Sphinx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrizzLee Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 I have protos of both of Cosmic Ark and Atlantis (How I aquired them is an interesting story). In the proto version of Cosmic Ark, the little saucer is missing. I recall asking Rob Fulop about this at World of Atari. He told me this was added at the last minute to tie the 2 games together. Ala.. a marketing gimmick. BTW: I Even have the protoype instructions typed up on Imagic letterhead. Complete with typos and such If there is interest. I'll post them somewhere. Probably have AtariAge host them if they won't mind along with the bin images for folks to play with. Perhaps they may show up at CGE , in the museum. Take care, -Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 lee: I'd love to see that! I love both of those games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Yancey Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 The little ship that escapes in the end of Atlantis looks like the one you use to beam up the various critters in Cosmic Ark. I always figured the Cosmic Ark dropped in to rescue a couple of inhabitants when Atlantis was destroyed. Wow! I never thought of it from that angle! This is a very interesting concept-- an ark which never lets any species go truly extinct in the universe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krytol Posted July 22, 2003 Share Posted July 22, 2003 Wow! I never thought of it from that angle! This is a very interesting concept-- an ark which never lets any species go truly extinct in the universe! It's a good thing it's not the same ship that takes off at the end of E.T.! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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