Alien vs Predator (Atari Jaguar)

Alien vs Predator

Platform: Atari Jaguar
Release Date: 1994
Genre: First Person Shooter
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Rebellion

Alien vs Predator is a 1994 first-person shooter game that was developed by Rebellion and published by Atari for the Atari Jaguar. It was extremely well-received is considered to be the best Atari Jaguar game. It set the standard for future Alien vs Predator games where you could play as Marines, Predators or Xenomorphs. Rebellion later returned to develop 1999’s Aliens versus Predator and 2010’s Alien vs Predator.

Gameplay

The Jaguar version of Alien vs. Predator is completely different from the Arcade and SNES games of the same name. The Jaguar version takes place entirely on a Colonial Marine Training base. A ship infested with Aliens is found floating near the outer-space training facility. Of course, once the Aliens get inside the base, they kill off nearly everyone. Meanwhile, the Predators dock their ship on the training base as well. They see this as an opportunity to catch an Alien Queen, and bring honour to their clan.

So there are three scenarios in which to play: First, you can play as a Marine. Your job is to find a way to self-destruct the base, and make your way to an escape pod before it blows. The second scenario allows you to play as an Alien. Here, your job is to find and protect the Queen from the Marines and the Predators. Finally, you can play as the Predator. The Predator must simply find and kill the Alien Queen.

The game plays like a first person shooter. The playing field consists of the 5 levels of the training base, plus areas for the Predator and Alien ships. All the areas of the ship are inter-connected, giving the game a huge virtual environment. Depending on the scenario you choose, you will have to choose different strategies based on the capabilities of your character. For example, the Marine will have to make use of his weapons and his ability to use the ship’s computer terminals. The Aliens, on the other hand, will have to make use of their great numbers and ability to cocoon their enemies. And finally, the Predator must fight with honour, and not over-use his invisibility capability.

Development

Alien vs Predator was originally being developed for the Atari Lynx by Images Software. The UK developer created a demo (which you can download and play today) that featured a Marine and a Predator as playable characters. The idea was to use characters and locations from the Dark Horse AvP comics series. It was a first-person shooter but the Atari Lynx game was put on hold and eventually cancelled by Atari as they focused their resources on the Atari Jaguar.

Rebellion was founded in 1992 by brothers Jason and Chris Kingsley and Atari commissioned them to make Alien vs Predator and Checkered Flag. Producer James Hampton picked up the project in Autumn 1992. Atari were wanting to make a port of the beat ’em up Aliens vs Predator for the SNES but he felt that the genre didn’t fit in with the franchise. He submitted a new proposal to 20th Century Fox and Activision to make a first-person shooter with three playable characters that didn’t tie into the comic books. Atari didn’t have any kind of agreement with Dark Horse to use their material anyway. The idea to have three playable characters came from Rebellion founders Chris and Jason Kingsley who wanted to play as either species. Atari then shared some assets and documents of the cancelled Atari Lynx AvP game with Rebellion Developments.

Rebellion originally developed Alien vs Predator internally at Oxford. Mike Beaton programmed the graphics engine. The game initially used hand-drawn graphics using 256-color format but they weren’t realistic enough for the atmosphere of the game. Stuart Wilson and Toby Harrison-Bamfield came up with the idea to use tile panels for the texture-mapped graphics and model figures for the sprites. Production sketches were created for the characters and tiles, and the developers created the tiles. 5×5 inch tiles were created from latex, wax and resin and then airbrushed to add details. These were then photographed using a 35mm camera. Similar materials were used for the character models which were from ready-to-buy and custom-made model kits. Animations seen in the game were filmed using stop motion and digitization.

Alien vs Predator (Atari Jaguar) Atari showed the game off in a very early form at an August 1993 press conference. It was one of the first games to be announced for the Jaguar. GamePro magazine showed some screenshots from the game during its October 1993 issue which differed from the final game and the game was rumoured to be released in January 1994.

Rebellion was expanded to work on Checkered Flag. Andrew Whittaker helped Mike Beaton with programming AvP‘s game engine. Alien vs Predator was scheduled for release in Q2 1994 but the game’s low budget caused a few development issues. Andrew Whittaker and Mike Beaton said in Spring 1994 that they hadn’t been paid by Rebellion because Rebellion had already spent their contracted budget.

At this point, Atari relocated the two Rebellion programmers (Mike Beaton and Andrew Whittaker) to their Atari headquarters in California. This allowed them to work directly with Jaguar engineers to fix the technical issues that the game had. Rebellion was able to use Atari’s design and audio team to create level maps, story work, sound effects and music. Rebellion spent a lot of time into compressing the game into a 2Mb cartridge, and then about a month from completion the cartridge size was doubled to 4Mb. A lot of development could have been saved had they had the 4Mb cartridge to begin with. All of the game’s graphics were compressed by using JagPEG, an Atari adaptation of the JPEG format, which compresses art assets by an 8:1 ratio without loss of quality.

Almost completely finished, the game later appeared at SCES ’94 and later appeared at Autumn ECTS ’94. The game runs 10-15 fps in 16-bit colour format while the cutscenes are in 24-bit color. The cover art for the packaging and the title screen were rendered in LightWave 3D by artist Andrew H. Denton.

Planned Sequels

Alien vs Predator CD

Atari producer James Hampton revealed that an AvP CD version was planned. Atari released the Atari Jaguar CD peripheral in September 1995 which allowed for game sizes up to 790MB, significantly more than a 6MB cartridge. The Atari design team submitted their proposals for CD-Rom version to 20th Century Fox who then passed it back to Rebellion. It took them 4 years to make Aliens versus Predator for PC.

AvP Virtual Reality (CVG Magazine)

Virtual Reality Sequel

It was rumoured that Atari was in negotiations with Beyond Games (developer of Ultra Vortek) to make a sequel to the Alien vs Predator game on Jaguar and it may well have used Atari’s virtual reality helmet which surfaced in 1995 but was never commercially released. Atari was eventually forced to abandon the Jaguar due to struggling sales and exited the video games market. You can view a scan from CVG magazine from 1995 which mentions the sequel.

Covers

UK Cover

Screenshots

Magazine Articles

Gamepro (October 1993)

Gamepro (November 1993)

ST Format (May 1994)

Video Games (June 1994)

Atari Entertainment (1994)

EGM (1994)

ST-Action (1994)

GamesWorld (August 1994)

GamesMaster (September 1994)

Edge (November 1994)

Video Footage

Release & Reception

Alien vs Predator was released on October 21, 1994. The game was also released in Japan on December 8, 1994 by Mumin Corporation where it included an exclusive Japanese manual and became the pack-in title for the system.

Alien vs Predator remains one of Atari Jaguar’s greatest games on the console and was well-received among fans and the press. They praised the tense atmosphere, graphics and sound effects and the diversity between each species. Video Games Magazine praised the graphics and sound giving it 9/10: “Congratulations to the entire A.V.P. development team. I’m still in shock from this game, even with the slight directional confusion. It’s an experience you will never forget.” Next Generation gave it 4/5: “Controls aren’t as easy as they could be… but neither of these quirks stops AVP from delivering some really good play. Definitely the best Jaguar title we’ve seen so far.”

Fangoria praised the atmosphere: “Atari spent a lot of time and money to get this title right, and the game delivers the goods.” Edge was one of the few outlets that were quite critical of the game. They gave it 4/10: “Despite some attractive backgrounds and reasonable scrolling, AVP has turned out to be a lumbering, lame and unfocused imitation of Doom that only the most masochistic gamers will get anything out of. Those people who held on to their Jaguars in the belief that AVP would rescue the machine from mediocrity are likely to be sorely disappointed.”

Lost Dragon Posted April 8, 2018 at 6:16 pm

The C+VG comment from Atari UK’s marketing Manager, Darryl Still, is a throw away..speculation claim.

Beyond Games were a US based company and as Darryl was only in charge of UK marketing, we would need to see proof from Beyond Games and or an Atari Corp project manager or producer.

As for Jane being in charge of Jaguar VR..AVP was Jane’s only project:

/ Alien versus Predator

Pocket : Can you explain us what was you work, with Alien versus Predator at Rebellion and Atari ?
AW : Ok, well firstly, I worked for atari and not rebellion and atari hired me to work with Rebellion on the product.

Pocket : Interesting. So let’s talk about your work. The artificial intelligence is really impressive in AVP. How did tou code it ?
AW : All done on the 68000, all of the gameplay logic is done on the 68000.the AI was the most complicated part of the entire
game, with over 256 strategies for each creature. The 68000 was ideal for that as obviously the GPU is really suited to
graphics processing whilst the instruction set of the 68k lends itself nicely to AI.

Pocket : It is said that you slowed down the game to add “pressure” on the player. Is it true ?
AW : Quite true yes, although not pressure on the player, although that helps. But actually to give more atmosphere and
force the player to use strategy. The idea is not to be a fast action FPS, but a game where you must think carefully and
move strategically.

Pocket : I think AVP did it really well !
AW : Thank you sir
I didnt want people rushing around shooting all the time, the game is about planning. This isn’t Quake, in Quake the creatures
only “come alive” when you get near them, in AVP they hunt you and the more you move, the more noise you make, they can
home in on that. The creatures work together. Sometimes an alien that looks stupid may lead you into a trap of other aliens
for example. They plot and plan different ways of capturing the player, and if you dash around you will die. Its a game of
stealth really, I call the game “Alien Chess” because of the way they think many moves ahead and work together as a team.

Pocket : What was Atari’s power of decision ? Could you really do what you wanted with the game ?
AW : Atari and Sam Tramiel especially were very supportive, they let me make the game I wanted to make. I even used the Atari
office at night to practice Ai strategies, by using Atari staff as aliens and me as the player and trying different ideas
in their building with real people.

Pocket : You had all the time you wanted to finish the game ?
AW : Oh yes, even though it was delayed due to me spending some time in hospital.

Pocket : I played the beta, many things changed in the final version.
AW : Yes, to me the beta was the first draft, when I saw what I had and if it was how I wanted it. Even after beta I made a
lot of changes because I was allowed to do so, many of the wargames with real people happened after beta and I included what
we found out.

Pocket : How do you consider the final game ?
I enjoy it, but there are still things I would change, some graphics here and there.

Pocket : What for example ? Just graphic parts ?
AW : Yes minor graphic tweaks, and maybe another couple of predator AI skills, but all in all I was happyand people seem
to enjoy the game which is good

Pocket : Do you know how many copies of AVP were produced and how many were sold ?
AW : 300,000 or thereabouts, sold.

II/ The Jaguar

Pocket : How did you consider the Jaguar at this time ? Interesting to develop for ?
AW : It was wonderful to develop for, a lot of fun.

Pocket : What were, for you, the strongest and weakest points of the system ?
AW : Weakest was some of the graphics bottlenecks, strongest really was the fact the 68000 could get on with gameplay logic
whilst the GPU was doing graphics, giving a form of multitasking.

Pocket : Back ten years ago, how did you judge the Jaguar ? Atari’s politic ?
AW : I think the jaguar was a great machine, wonderful machine, let down by marketing.

Pocket : What are your favorite games on Jaguar ?
AW : T2k, Iron Soldier and thats about all I play.

Pocket : And you think the Jaguar potential has been fully exploited today ? Or better games can be done ?
AW : On any system games can be improved, even if its just gameplay. Technicaly speaking, the Jaguar was maxed out.

Pocket : Did you code on it later, for fun ?
AW : Yes, nothing commercial though. I did a scrolling shootemup, a few technical things.

Pocket : Do you still have it ?
AW : No unfortunately not, I lost it a while ago in a house move.

Pocket : And did you never though coding again, for fun, on jaguar ?
AW : Always wanted to, never had the time with work projects. This is the problem when projects take all your time in this
industry.

Pocket : Did you look at the latest developments of the Jaguar community these past few years ?
AW : Yes, and I have and offered unofficial advice and support wherever I could. I feel right at home in the community,
more than any other it has made me welcome.

III/ Life after Alien versus Predator ?

Pocket : After AVP, what happened to you ? did you work on another Jaguar game ?
AW : No that was my one and only Jaguar game, I went from there to MGM Studios

So whilst there is indeed more back story. .It isn’t VR related.

Anonymous Posted July 11, 2021 at 9:21 am

Sam Tramiel has come forward to prove Jane Whittaker lied when talking of being made VP of Atari aged around 19/20,messing with his coffee machine etc…

Please don’t be taken in by Jane Whittaker AVP Ancedotes…

https://twitter.com/IllCallYallOut/status/1410867712155344897?s=20

Anonymous Posted July 11, 2021 at 9:09 am

The sooner people STOP using Jane Whittaker as a credible source on social media, to talk about AVP, the better.

Jane’s involvement was not a key as Jane claims, it was never Jane’s game..

Jane was one of 3 coders, poor old Mike Pooler is more often than not, left out by Jane, who makes out only Jane and Mike Beaton had coding roles

Jane did not work with HR Giger on Dark Seed, was not digitized for the main role, did not do the graphics for the Amiga version.

Cyberdreams Patrick Ketchum abd others have confirmed this, Jane’s actual role was a mere few days as a playtester on the Amiga version, whilst at Mirage.

As for Jane’s AVP Ancedotes:

Jeff Minter is the latest industry figure to come forward and point out Jane is lying.

AVP was not being coded by Jane in a cubicle at Sunnyvale, with Jeff on one side of him coding Tempest 2000,John Carmack on the other, coding Doom/Wolfenstein…

Hm, well T2K was pretty much all done in Wales, I used to upload builds to the Atari server in Sunnyvale using a pretty slow modem. I only went out to Sunnyvale with T2K for a few weeks of final test, IIRC for about 3 weeks before Xmas of 1993, then home for Xmas, and for a couple of weeks right after Xmas, finishing in Jan ’94. Don’t think I saw any of AvP at that time (I guess it would have been really early to see any of it anyway in Jan 1994). Don’t recall seeing Carmack there either.

I *do* remember DOOM came out while I was in Sunnyvale pre-Xmas, and I couldn’t wait to get T2K finished off so I could go back to Wales and do nothing but play DOOM for a month.

IIRC the next time I was in Sunnyvale was in June ’94, I’d been supposed to go back there in May to work on VLM, but I got ill with pneumonia and couldn’t fly until that had cleared up enough so I was delayed till June.

That chap definitely seems to have his own unique views as to what went on back in the day.

I was somewhat surprised when one day on his Twitter he just randomly told the world that one of his mates had been a gameplay advisor to me when I was developing T2K.

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/306326-leonard-tramiel-exclusive-text%C2%A0interview-great-commodore-atari-insight/page/2/

Ross Sillifant Posted July 6, 2021 at 4:26 pm

The infamous Gamesmaster TV show review..

Skip to around the 7 mins 22 seconds mark:

https://youtu.be/fwh_F5pDJtU

Ross Sillifant Posted July 6, 2021 at 10:47 am

Gamesmaster TV early preview.

Skip to around 7 mins 50 seconds mark

https://youtu.be/MW926B2LL8E

Ross Sillifant Posted November 3, 2020 at 9:43 am

AvP:Tea Party?

Casual RDT

11/9/94

(DavidB367) writes

>I’ve heard this argument before. Yes, it is a simulation, but it has

some

>playability problems. Predators do get attacked by facehuggers if they

>wander to close to an egg. Then why to grown Aliens and Predators attack

>you instead of each other and you? It’s a bug. Even simulations have

>bugs. The simulation excuse only goes so far. Rebellion (Dan) is very

>good at making excuses (look at the Checked Flag posts.)

Rebellion Developments :

Why thank you 😊

I’d just like to point out at this stage that we

at Rebellion have never posted any of these ‘excuses’ (or whatever you

choose to call them) for ‘deficiencies’ in the gameplay; we’re simply

giving out facts. How you choose to interpret the game is entirely up to

you.

Ask Andy Whittaker — the AI code is his baby, after all, so he’d be the

one for the final word as to what exactly is going on there; I wouldn’t

like to put words into his mouth.

— dan @ Rebellion

DavidB367

11/11/94

I apologize for stating that you had made this excuse. I read the manual

thoroughly and did not get that it was a “simulation”. Many others have

stated the simulation as the reason that of the AvP elements were surreal.

I have sent Andy whittaker an e-mail and he never responded. It would be nice to

have someone at Rebellion clear these points up.

Rebellion :

Unfortunately, as Andy wrote the AI code, he’s the only person who
really knows how and why it works the way it does; we can’t speak on his
behalf (doubly so now he’s no longer working for us), so if you haven’t
had an answer from him, you’re unfortunately not going to get one at all.
Sorry about that.
— dan @ Rebellion

Ross Sillifant Posted September 2, 2020 at 1:47 pm

Rebellion are as bad as Jane Whittaker, when it comes to giving accounts on AVP:

https://archive.org/stream/Gamefan_Vol_2_Issue_06#page/n129/mode/2up

Jasson appears to lie about doing Atari Star Raiders on the Atari 800..that’s Doug Neubar..

Tells the story of Atari approached them after seeing their 3D Engine on PC Eye Of The Storm.

Chris Kingsley claims they went to Atari with a Dragons vs Viking Longboat tech demo, trying to secure contract to do a Falcon title, got given the Jaguar contract.

https://metro.co.uk/2017/12/04/25-years-of-rebellion-from-alien-vs-predator-to-2000-ad-and-beyond-7129407/amp/

Same claim made in Gamestm interview a while back.

Ross Sillifant Posted July 27, 2020 at 8:27 am

“The ultimate aim is to imagine a Virtual Reality helmet and just taking AVP as an example – each player chooses a character from the game, is in a V. R environment on the Nostromo, walking around with their own task and they can meet up, help each other out and stuff like that”

ATARI UK’s Darryl Still not quite getting the concept of AVP it seems 😂

Ross Sillifant Posted June 27, 2020 at 2:35 pm

Slight correction, it was the equally bad Game Pro Magazine that made the Xeno climbing the walls claim.

I find US press too much of a visual overload compared to UK press and confused the 2

Ross Sillifant Posted June 27, 2020 at 12:22 pm

DHGF Magazine were claiming at games preview stage, you’d be able to climb the walls when playing as the Xeno and use your computer skills to out wit the Aliens and Predator when playing as the Marine..

They must be one of the most unreliable sources of Jaguar Game info going 😊

Glad to see the magazine scans I sent over being uploaded..

The Unknown Magazine is a later edition of Atari Entertainment Magazine.

Lost Dragon Posted June 10, 2020 at 5:02 pm

Stumbled across the old Games World Magazine review, 75% and judging by some of the reviewer comments, they (like Gamesmaster TV show) based the review around the unfinished beta.

Talk of walking around for hours without encountering anything, a photo realistic Doom before they put the game play in etc, gave it away.

Ross Sillifant Posted October 25, 2019 at 3:28 pm

Rebellion talking Summer 1994

I’m currently looking at the latest revision of AvP [oh the joys of being
a developer] and I reckon it looks better and runs as fast as DOOM on a
486 66MHx. Can;t tell you much because its not far off launch, but it is
looking seriously scary.
[FX: screaming aliens dying in droves, smart gun blasting, Stuart the
artist saying ‘Where the ***k did that come from !?!’]

Rebellion

The Crestfallen Posted September 10, 2019 at 11:06 am

It is my sad duty to report that Jane Whittaker (Andrew when working on Jaguar AVP) has been exposed as a fraud and is currently under investigation by the BBC.

https://airentertainment.biz/2019/08/30/jane-whittaker-proven-to-be-an-industry-fraud/

https://airentertainment.biz/2019/09/09/jane-whittaker-keystone-games-blue-sock-studios-and-the-exploitation-of-disabled-people/

Any AVP statements made by Whittaker should be considered doubtful at this time.

Another Rebellion source who wishes to remain anonymous has gone on record to say all Whittaker did was code the A.I routines for the game and in such an awful manner, said routines had to be ripped out and replaced.

Ross Sillifant Posted March 27, 2019 at 4:04 pm

Jane Whittaker intetview:

https://youtu.be/iqpkpNoZpOM

Jane kind enough to clear up claim Atari had never paid for work done on Jaguar AVP.

Claim came from someone pretending to be Jane, just to cause trouble.

lost dragon Posted February 16, 2019 at 11:46 am

Daniel.Mitchell
Fwiw — the Gamesmaster review is about as accurate a review as can be
expected given the timescales of the review and ‘real’ (ie post 20th
Century Fox) release dates.
Secondly; the Aliens version of Doom is, um, all very well and good,
but 3D Studio rendered aliens are /not/ the same thing as digitised
images of models of aliens..

Ross Sillifant Posted February 16, 2019 at 11:41 am

Just so y’all know; Skyhammer is well-nigh finished; as ever, it’s in
Atari’s hands, not hours, but it ought to be in production, um, real
soon now. And I mean _real_ soon now. (but that’s just our opinion, of
course).

Plans: like this says (hey, someone got it right for a change), no
plans for anything on the JagCd — no plans for JagAvPII, blah blah
blah. Said it before, and I’ll say it again.

— dan (@ rebellion,

Ross Sillifant Posted November 17, 2018 at 9:56 am

Fm: John Mathieson
To: Jez San @ Argonaut

Hi Jez –

There are two significant differences between AVP on Jaguar and
Wolfenstein on the PC. First AVP has texture mapped walls, floors
and ceilings; whereas Wolfenstein has only the walls. Secondly AVP
uses depth cueing, things get darker the further away they are. These
things are relatively trivial on Jaguar, but the depth cueing in parti-
cular is very hard to do on other hardware. Jaguar can rotate, scale,
skew and lighten/darken in a single blit copy operation, with the pixel
transfer rate effectively limited by DRAM bandwidth only.

I agree that yaw only is easier, but you know as a games writer that
“cheating” especially at things like 3D is the name of the game, and
people playing AVP will not be aware of the yaw only limitation. AVP
begins to look like real video (to some extent anyway) but Wolfenstein
remains clearly a computer graphic. There is no comparison.

– John

Lost Dragon Posted November 4, 2018 at 2:49 pm

Quick look at French Games press:

Joypad: 96 % “Buy a jag to play it !”

i
Console +: 95 % “I have always believed in Atari !”

Player One:85 % “Superb but too repetitive”

Lost Dragon Posted October 19, 2018 at 6:12 am

Andrew Whittaker doing some Q+A back in the day:

Q)So, is it true that the original AI for AvP was so good that the Predators went around and killed all the Aliens, thus making the game too easy?

A) I dont know as it made the game too easy having rampaging Predators, but yes
thats quite true. It was fun tho. You could hear alien screams around the
place all the time :)

Q) How many objects/enemies are actually being tracked and updated in real

A)Everything on the level you are currently on are tracked in realtime. This was the only way to maintain pack strategies wherein all the aliens, marines etc worked in defined groups with well defined objectives. There was over a
couple of hundred strategies per character type. The first one people usually find is “stupid alien” where an alien mills around a room aimlessly,
but is in reality there to distract you from all his pals being on route.

There are loads more. I shall have to discuss them all one day. But the basic point is yes, this is not doom or quake,everything is alive all the
time and plotting and scheming against you.

Q) Why were body armor and the “jump over acid” abilities dropped from the

A)The body armour didnt balance very well in gameplay. The jump over acid was
dropped for two reasons 1) you really have to think about where you kill
things 2) the cart was so full it would have meant dropping something else
to include it.

Ross Sillifant Posted October 13, 2018 at 7:43 pm

James Purple Hampton said in an off camera section of an interview, he’d been talking to Fox to try and get the licence for a Jaguar CD version of AVP…

Dan Macnamee explains why it wasn’t possible:

“Fox has their own software division, and at the time had decided to do Alien and Predator related games themselves so they could get the
whole profit instead of just royalties. Don’t know what happened to any game plans they might have had.

Dan”

Ross Sillifant Posted September 26, 2018 at 6:54 pm

Rebellion put paid to rumours of a Jaguar CD version back in late 1994:

Um, all these people who seem to think AvP is due out on the JagCD would
: appear to know something we don’t — just to squash rumours before they
: get out of hand. Sorry, folks.
: — dan @ Rebellion

Lost Dragon Posted August 19, 2018 at 4:25 pm

Jeff Minter talks about his experience :

Just got AVP at a show in London, it’s on
me Jag now. Cool game… got a sore thumb trucking around that training
maze…the map going away is a *pain* but overall I like it so far. My
dad was playing last night, quite fun to watch him backing down a
corridor blazing away at the xt’s, he’d actually roll back his chair
right across the room with a look of terror on his fizzog… great
atmosphere!
\
(:-)
/

Lost Dragon Posted August 11, 2018 at 9:34 am

Atari’s Bob Brodie explaining why game was delayed:

Atari delayed the game’s release when the “final” version from Rebellion
didn’t feature enough interactivity between the player and the environment
they were in.

For example, you’d walk into a room of face-hugger
eggs and there wouldn’t be much going on. (no Face Huggers scurrying around, eggs didn’t peel open etc).

lost dragon Posted August 3, 2018 at 7:01 pm

Having looked a lot closer into the games development, it’s become clear it had a tortured development cycle to say the least.

Andrew Whittaker has said coding AVP was hard work having to contend
with a tumour, major burns and a bereavement during the course of development!

There is clearly little love between him and Jason Kingsley. ..

And Andrew went onto make a claim Atari hadn’t paid him for AVP sales at one point, something Atari’s Don Thomas strongly denied.

Add in comments from Lance Lewis regarding Rebellion having to be practically forced to watch the films and just wow.

Lost Dragon Posted August 3, 2018 at 5:31 pm