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- ====== GT Interactive - Press Releases Screen Shots and Release Schedule =======
- ---------------------------- (1998-03-16 press kit) ----------------------------
-
- Dumped By: Cut Into Fourteen Pieces
-
- Released By: CVLT OF OSIRIS
-
- CVLT OF OSIRIS presents a small collection of press releases and screenshots
- for GT Interactive titles on a floppy disk from 1998-03-16.
-
- As the source media was a floppy disk, this release includes a Redump disk
- image created with a regular 3.5" floppy drive as well as a full Kryoflux
- preservation image.
-
- Includes full press releases for two games:
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- * Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency
- * Z and its expansion pack
-
- Includes single-paragraph promotional text for the following titles:
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- * 9: The Last Resort
- * Imperium Galactica
- * Puzzle Bobble
- * Sensible World of Soccer ΓÇÿ96/ΓÇÖ97
- * SPQR: The EmpireΓÇÖs Darkest Hour
-
- An Excel spreadsheet on the disk contains the release schedule through the end
- of 1998.
-
- Highlights of the release schedule:
-
- Duke Nukem Forever is listed for November 1998, 13 years before a game with
- that title was finally released.
-
- "Total Annihilation 2" is listed for October 1998 (seven months after this disk
- was created), with "Cavedog" listed as the developer. This does not refer to
- Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency, which has its own entry under April
- 1998. That expansion pack was released on schedule, and is clearly described in
- the schedule as an "Add on pack". There is no entry in the spreadsheet for
- Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics even though it was released in June 1998
- (four months before the date listed for "Total Annihilation 2"). Total
- Annihilation Creative Director Chris Taylor left Cavedog in March 1998. Perhaps
- a full sequel had been in progress, but the publisher lost confidence without
- him. Alternatively, perhaps the studio cancelled the in-progress sequel and
- this triggered Taylor's exit.
-
- Rebel Moon Revolution is listed for July 1998, but was never released.
-
- July 1998 contains an entry for "Broadside" by Devil's Thumb Entertainment,
- likely a working title for Tides of War.
-
- October 1998 includes Hordes by System 3, which was cancelled before release.
-
- November 1998 lists Quake for the PlayStation, with Williams listed as the
- developer. No version of the first Quake game was ever released for that
- platform. Lobotomy Software developed a PlayStation port, but could not find
- a publisher. Activision released Hammerhead's PlayStation port of Quake II in
- October, 1999. Perhaps Williams also attempted to port the game to the
- PlayStation?
-
- December 1998 includes a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine title that was never
- released.
-
-
-
- The Office documents demonstrate the danger of deleting the text from an
- existing Office file to use it as a template: two of the Word documents
- contain one or more copies of this text:
-
- "As I was a total addict to this game in the arcade it was only natural than
- when a nearly finished version turned up on the Total 64 doorstep one morning
- the duty of giving it the once over fell upon"
-
- Others demonstrate metadata leakage, such as the full UNC path to the file,
- with the machine name "GTISUK1RES1", and what seems to be a shared network
- printer on that server, "\\GTISUK1RES1\HP5_MKT"
-