Babylon 5

[Gabriel]

Since the DVD sets were cheap, I finally ordered them all and have been watching them. I'm in the latter half of season 1 right now. This made me wonder if there had been any Babylon 5 videogames. I don't recall any.

[+remowilliams]

No commercial releases. The one that was in progress got canned. There was/is a large community of modders who did mods for several other existing games to make B5 games.

 

From Wikipedia: (only because I know that they are right in this case )

The website FirstOnes.com continues to track Babylon 5 modifications for other games. FirstOnes.com hosts the site of the Space Dream Factory, an independent project to develop several standalone games. A collection of modifications for the Homeworld platform can be found at The Great Wars Mods website. These modifications try to capture the best battles from the series. Another independently-developed, freely-available modification is The Babylon Project, a total conversion of the computer game FreeSpace 2. The modification features several campaigns set during the Earth-Minbari War and the Raider Wars. Other games with Babylon 5 modifications include Independence War, Star Trek: Armada, Star Trek: Armada II, Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, Vega Strike and Nexus: The Jupiter Incident.

[SeaGtGruff]

Since the DVD sets were cheap, I finally ordered them all and have been watching them. I'm in the latter half of season 1 right now. This made me wonder if there had been any Babylon 5 videogames. I don't recall any.

There was a Babylon 5 game on a Babylon 5 (TV network) web site-- but as I recall, it wasn't all that great.

 

Michael

[Zwackery]

There have only been a couple of released B5 software titles, mostly featuring images, sounds, wallpapers, icons, animated cursors, and encyclopedia/archival materials: an Official Guide to Babylon-5 CD-ROM and the Babylon-5: Shadow Wars Arcade Series Entertainment Utility. On Shadow Wars, one of the features was a little game where you got to pilot a Star Fury through waves of attackers, kind of in the Space Invaders/Asteroids/Galaxian/Galaga vein (if your score got high enough, your Star Fury turned into a White Star).

Sierra Entertainment had announced a B5 game for release in Fall 1998, and I actually got to play a demo of it at Dragon*Con in September of '98, but the game got killed off in 1999 during a company reorganization, with the game only a few months away from final release. Some of the employees who had worked on it went back and approached Sierra about just releasing the game to the public for free some years later, and while things looked positive for a bit, Sierra ultimately chose not to allow the release. I have a poster advertising the game as well as a mouse pad and mock-up of the box.

Edited January 13, 2008 by Zwackery