VGEsoterica
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I love a good development hell story. They are always filled with missed steps, confusion...and a little bit of disappointment. Disruptor has got to be one of the wildest development histories I've ever encountered though.
Disruptor was 90%+ finished for the 3DO and it was previewed in magazines / played in the 3DO offices per a friend that worked at 3DO back in the 90's. At the last minute Insomniac decided to move the development of Disruptor to the 3DO M2...until the writing was on the wall that M2 was probably going to die before it was even given a chance to live!
So what did Insomniac do? Pivoted to the PS1! And it was a great game...but did you know the prerendered demos 3DO showed at CES when they unveiled the M2 hardware were in part based on Disruptor? and that ads were even released promoting the game as a 3DO M2 release?
To this day I have never been able to track down a playable alpha/beta of the game for either 3DO platform...but considering it was so close to release I bet somewhere Insomniac has a copy sitting on their shelves. Insomniac do you read NeoGaf? If so...can you slide me an iso? K thanks!
Disruptor was 90%+ finished for the 3DO and it was previewed in magazines / played in the 3DO offices per a friend that worked at 3DO back in the 90's. At the last minute Insomniac decided to move the development of Disruptor to the 3DO M2...until the writing was on the wall that M2 was probably going to die before it was even given a chance to live!
So what did Insomniac do? Pivoted to the PS1! And it was a great game...but did you know the prerendered demos 3DO showed at CES when they unveiled the M2 hardware were in part based on Disruptor? and that ads were even released promoting the game as a 3DO M2 release?
To this day I have never been able to track down a playable alpha/beta of the game for either 3DO platform...but considering it was so close to release I bet somewhere Insomniac has a copy sitting on their shelves. Insomniac do you read NeoGaf? If so...can you slide me an iso? K thanks!