Greetings from David Fox & Chris Crawford

[Heaven/TQA]

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

[carmel_andrews]

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)

[Heaven/TQA]

same with Microsoft & Sony paying some bucks for having exclusive titles for their platform... so nothing changed...

[+Stephen]

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.

[Rybags]

A million bucks was a buttload back then. Would probably have covered the budget for doing a dozen or more games in 1984.

[+Stephen]

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

[Rybags]

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.

[Bryan]

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

[ThomSW]

Hmmm... Why no greetings from Cindy Crawford?

[Bryan]

Hmmm... Why no greetings from Cindy Crawford?

I'll ask her. Oh, darling...

 

[StaxX28]

I found a PC remake of ROF, still in development :

 

http://www.lsdwa.com/projects/fractalus/

 

enjoy !

 

 

[Mathy]

Hello ThomSW

 

Hmmm... Why no greetings from Cindy Crawford?

You're probably mistaking David Fox for Samantha Fox.

 

sincerely

 

Mathy

[miker]

hahaha ++

 

 

 

[+Stephen]

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.