#Tomba ps1 demo release date full#
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#Tomba ps1 demo release date full#

So any claims Tomb Raider was ORIGINALLY designed for Jaguar CD is not true, it was designed during MCD era, Core just waited for tech to reach point concept/ideas could be turned into full blown game.Īlso Ross Sillifant wrote us that: “ The Jag Tomb Raider claim? Comes from a SUPPLEMENT MAG, EDGE supplied in a 1-off, back in it’s early days, paid for by ATARI to promote up coming Jaguar games. Interview with Core Design in EDGE issue 41 (Jan’97) Has Jeremy Smith talking of concept of character in a cinematic enviroment, being inital concept for T.R, but they had immense issues designing a system around the character that would let them move within a camera system and Artist, animator and designer at Core, Stuart Atkinson said: ‘We already had the sketches and ideas for the game for about a year before we even finished BC Racers (on MCD). I’m not saying it would have been impossible but it would have taken a pretty good development team to pul it off.Īlso Core in early interview with Edge talk of Tomb Raider starting out on MCD, 12 months BEFORE BC Racers was finished, but could’nt get camera system working. It used OpenGL for 3D and there was nothing like Open-GL for the Jaguar, and few games had made any sort of attempt at texture-mapping the entire display. Tomb Raider, in anything like the form we know, would have been very difficult to do on Jaguar. It seems very unlikely to me… the first released version of Tomb Raider was late 96, even later than Quake’s release. Mike:This is the first time I’ve ever heard anything about Tomb Raider and Jaguar in the same paragraph. This led to Tomb Raider being rescheduled for after Eidos acquired U.S Gold.Īs noted in an interview by Ross Sillifant with Mike Fulton: It has been confirmed that this revision was cancelled.

The expected release date had been targeted for 1st QTR 1996. It has been confirmed that there was an N64 port in progress but this got cancelled due to “contractual agreements” presumably with Sony.Īs Tomb Raider was in development through 1995. It is *rumored* that early revisions of Tomb Raider were to be planned be released on: The original concept showed early drawings of a male character which they changed to a female named Lara Cruz then to the heroine we know as Lara Croft. Tomb Raider was then re-released on the N-Gage Nokia phone to promote the franchise further. Subsequently the game was released early October 1996 on several platforms such as: PC, Sega Saturn and PlayStation. Tomb Raider’s design and concept started in 1994, Core Design, of Derby decided that they wanted to make a video game based on ‘Tomb Raiding’. Thank god…Ĭrash Team Racing CTR, PlayStation Ford Demo Disc Dealership Set, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!.Overview: Tomb raider was not only one of the best selling, early 3D games, but it was the most recognizable icon of the PlayStation brand. The PlayStation deck was sealed, which means the Ford Demo was never in there, proving that there is no system box variant to go along with the demo’s sleeve variant. Since everything but the demo are all 100% off-the-shelf retail items, it’s safe to bet that most people tossed the Demo disc or never got the system box etc. From the brochure, the dealership would have installed the system at time of purchase.

It’s important to note that while this demo was acquired in a 100% factory sealed set of items, there was no outer box keeping everything in place.

What makes this demo all the more elusive is that it is never ever mentioned in the brochure or advertising. The set-up included the SCPH-9001 model PlayStation, Gran Turismo 2, a Carrying Bag, this demo, and a brochure.

This version of the Demo disc was only available through buying the Ford Windstar 2001 with an optional “Family Entertainment System”.

#Tomba ps1 demo release date Pc#

There is a song hidden on the disc! If you place it in a PC / Mac or standard CD player and choose track #2, it’s the song “Empty Heart”.Since there was no outer box to hold it all, you could easily assemble the entire thing in pieces and call it a day. Note that everything apart from the demo and brochure were standard retail items with no variant angle. The PlayStation and items came as part of the “Family Entertainment System” (Wait…that sounds…familiar…) that was an option for the Ford WindStar mini-van. Star Wars: Episode I – Jedi Power Battles Demo.

The opening is a video ad for the PlayStation Underground Magazine, and once you get to the playable demos, you have the following options: While the sleeve is the true variant, the disc is actually a reprinting of the ‘PlayStation Demo Disc 2000’ – which makes this a 3rd variant and the hardest of the 4 versions to find with the Wal-Mart version coming behind it.