And thanks to you (collectively) I got to play it too because I won a copy in the competition you had in Zzap! issue 3.

Those were the days..."we're proud to be able to offer 100 copies as prizes.". 100 copies!

Be thankful that you never have to go through Nintendo's Lotcheck. It was an absolute nightmare, especially trying to validate the save storage to determine if it was blank, valid, or corrupted. And that was just 1 out of hundreds of requirements. It was even worse if you were doing wireless play.

There's a lot of mocking in this thread, but this is an astonishing technical achievement.

I worked at Psygnosis and I don't even remember seeing it. How about you @scubachris72.bsky.social ?

Not really. Sony bought us in 1993 for the purpose of being Sony's European game division.

Have a look at Eternal Psygnosis on Facebook. We posted the Star Wars footage there.

From 1992 to 1999 in Liverpool.

The voice recording session was provided on an audio CD. I had to record it onto my computer, then follow the script and cut it up into individual named files. I don't speak German, nor do I speak French and Spanish, but I had to do those languages as well. It was three weeks of mind-numbing tedium.

As @rpwbrowne.bsky.social said, it wasn't until Dracula for the MegaCD that the artists were filmed, digitized and edited for the character animations. It's pertinent to understand that original crop of Psygnosis artists were all graduates from fine art courses at University.

South Harrington Building:
maps.app.goo.gl/TMpbD8SJDhY1...

Century Building 1 (not sure of the exact door):
maps.app.goo.gl/5owNQawX2pnr...

The Warehouse:
maps.app.goo.gl/ESyaj3PcV1Qr...

The space where the artists worked was the nice Century office. Our office was awful on pretty much every level. When we were leaving, we found a bin bag behind one of the desks that had been there so long that it had burned through the carpet and men in hazmat suits had to come and disinfect it.

Now imagine all that, but while being caged in Century Buildings.

It was Psygnosis staff in the Microcosm intro, but not Krazy Ivan. They were professional actors and you can see them in IMDB. One of the auditions for Ivan was from Nick Moran who went on to play the lead in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Also, the game was nearly called '40ft Hard'.

It was actually 40% of all European titles across all formats.