Unreleased Dave Dorman Alien Interactive Game

Started by Corporal Hicks, Mar 09, 2015, 11:55:09 AM

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Corporal Hicks

Jamie Warr over at the Weyland-Yutani Bulletin on Facebook has posted up some gems sent from Dave Dorman about an unreleased interactive game that was in development for a short period of 6 months:

“I was called in by Mike Richardson (head of Dark Horse Comics) in the summer of 1992 to produce production designs and physical art for an Alien DVD [Dave has since commented that he misremembered and it was CD-I format, not DVD) game produced by Dark Horse in collaboration with Total Vision. The game company was to be called Dark Division Interactive. Alien was to be their first game. Now remember this is 1992, before Xbox, PlayStation, or Game Box. I believe only Atari had a popular working game machine at the time. What Dark Vision wanted to was utilize the potential game playing power of the DVD player. Using the DVD hand controller and its buttons and cursor to move through the game and execute commands.”

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Dave Dorman would have overseen the design aspects of the game. Games of a similar nature did indeed appear for the DVD players. The content provided to Jamie doesn’t reveal many details on the actual storylines. You would have chosen between 2 characters/stories, one of which was “crew-story” and an “explorer” storyline. One would have been a fast-paced approach whilst the other was “more educational”. The idea was that it would have been a complex story driven venture.

You can find more art and a little bit about the game over at Xenopedia. Prior to this an “interactive comic” game was released for Aliens, simply titled Aliens – A Comic Book Adventure. You can find an entire gameplay video on YouTube. I have included everything Jamie posted down below and Jamie will be relying any questions for Dave about the project.

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Visceral_Mass

1992 had Nintendo and Sega consoles, Atari was a thing of the past. ;)

Darkness

I thought Atari used cartridges anyway?

Corporal Hicks

I think the Jaguar was CD.

TMLS

TMLS

#4
Wow Visceral, were you not around for the Jaguar?  It was awesome!

Atari should have been a bigger player, and yeah - there was a CD add-on for the Jagua, similar to the Mega CD or what the PlayStation was meant to be ;)

Visceral_Mass

I've been around since Pong.

Wasn't the Jaguar released in 1993 (and Atari never had the most popular machine since the 80's)? We are talking 1992 when Atari consoles were still a thing of the past. ;)

Quarax

Oh, cool. I wrote an article about it a while ago (http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Aliens_Interactive), but there wasn't much info available then.

Corporal Hicks

Original post has been updated with some more pictures from Jamie.

Corporal Hicks

Updated with a couple more.

Jman

Jman

#9
Too bad they hadn't developed the game further, so it could be enjoyed by fans through emulation, like AvP for the Atari Jaguar.

Corporal Hicks



Added another one up.

OpenMaw

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 09, 2015, 08:30:55 PM
I think the Jaguar was CD.

There was a CD addon(Like the Sega CD for Genesis), but the Jaguar used carts by default.  :)

Corporal Hicks

Corporal Hicks

#12
Genesis was the Mega Drive, right?

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Corporal Hicks

Jamie has posted up some of the story documents.












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