[MrFlibble]

Just found this little review of Duke Nukem 3D that includes a pre-release screenshot from Shadow Warrior which can also be found here, but in GIF quality.

[MrFlibble]

An archived Age of Empires fan site with an intact screenshot gallery:
http://www.heavenweb.com/age/

Pre-release StarCraft: Brood War screenshots:
http://starcraft.org/gameinfo/broodwar/screens.shtml

[MrFlibble]

A preview of Hexen II: the Portal of Praevus from a somewhat obscure website, with some screenshots intact:
http://bird.taponline.com/eidolon/previews/pc/hexen2mission.html

The same site also has a preview of SiN:
http://bird.taponline.com/eidolon/previews/pc/sin.html

No exact publication date is provided for the article but it seems to be from mid-to-late-1997. Not all screenshots have been preserved.

[Robman]

MrFlibble, on 01 November 2016 - 10:50 AM, said:

a pre-release screenshot from Shadow Warrior which can also be found here, but in GIF quality.

And here ;D

[Fantinaikos]

Trucks is a quite obscure almost open-world 1997 DOS/Windows game developed by Microfolie's and published by Microïds. What is it? Substantially Big Rigs that works, and most of the things it should have been. I am not aware that it was highly publicized but there is this promo for the italian version (strangely sold together with an album of soccer related songs) which ingame radio boasts the participation of the famous and still active DJ Albertino.



Translation of the spot, just for those who are curious:

TRUCKS.

The real toughs of the street compete at the wheel with the heavier vehicles of the galaxy.

TRUCKS.

This delirious universe will make you sweat, you will eat dust, you will breath gasoil.

TRUCKS, with the voice of DJ Albertino of Radio Deejay and Soccer Compilation at an incredible price: 59.000 + postage.

DJ Albertino voice fragment from the ingame radio: But it isn't fantastic all this?

But you will not find this offer in the stores, you have to phone at the number that you see overlay. The CD-Roms are original, this offer is valid until stocks last.

Link Multimedia: Fun at pure state.

[MrFlibble]

Robman, on 28 January 2017 - 08:08 AM, said:

MrFlibble, on 01 November 2016 - 10:50 AM, said:

Just found this little review of Duke Nukem 3D that includes a pre-release screenshot from Shadow Warrior which can also be found here, but in GIF quality.

And here ;D

Hmm, the page that you have linked to doesn't have this shot which I was referring to. Also why did you put all screenshots together into one image and JPEG-compress them?

A while ago I submitted all Shadow Warrior screenshots I know about to the promo art section at MobyGames. However some images from your page seem unfamiliar. Were they bundled with some registered release of another Apogee/3D Realms game? (Would be nice if your page mentioned the source of these images, if only to establish the date of their publication.)

[Fantinaikos]

NORMALITY, 1996 3D first-person graphical adventure developed and published by Gremlin Interactive. Published by Interplay for North America.

Official Trailer


Promo Video


The more detailed promo video contains a sorta of "hoax", when Dai appears (the man in yellow coat) you can see a rendered model that moves with fluidity while he talking to you but in reality, like in the rest of the game, excluding cinematics ALL the characters and objects are classic stop-motion animation sprites obtained from models, the great majority are even one-sided without rotation.

Interesting fact about voice acting: They made two different versions of the english dub, one american and one United Kingdom (this has been also distributed around Europe where only the manual was translated. The only foreign version completely localized it's the german version)

Follow playtroughs to make a comparison by yourself. Personally I prefer UK.

US dub
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKgN-bJ1GuLtiC-AOphgc35lSBfcZj43c

UK dub
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFA43EF6A278BB792

GE dub
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-rsaUPrBpQ

[MrFlibble]

A pretty large gallery of Quake II preview screenshots at PC Gamer:
http://www.pcgamer.com/features/quake2/index.html

[Robman]

MrFlibble, on 31 January 2017 - 07:40 AM, said:

Hmm, the page that you have linked to doesn't have this shot which I was referring to.

Yes it does...

MrFlibble, on 31 January 2017 - 07:40 AM, said:

Also why did you put all screenshots together into one image and JPEG-compress them?

I didn't.

MrFlibble, on 31 January 2017 - 07:40 AM, said:

A while ago I submitted all Shadow Warrior screenshots I know about to the promo art section at MobyGames. However some images from your page seem unfamiliar. Were they bundled with some registered release of another Apogee/3D Realms game? (Would be nice if your page mentioned the source of these images, if only to establish the date of their publication.)

I had just posted the images I had come across, they can or could have been found on various sites on the way back machine.

[MrFlibble]

Robman, on 05 February 2017 - 07:57 AM, said:

Yes it does...

Right, that's because I was completely oblivious to the existence of the interactive gallery on that page with JavaScript turned off Apologies.

Robman, on 05 February 2017 - 07:57 AM, said:

I had just posted the images I had come across, they can or could have been found on various sites on the way back machine.

It's still a good idea to document sources even if they're secondary. Nyerguds' Command & Conquer beta gallery is a perfect example:
http://nyerguds.arsa...hive/beta1.html
http://nyerguds.arsa...hive/beta2.html

[Robman]

MrFlibble, on 07 February 2017 - 12:35 PM, said:

It's still a good idea to document sources even if they're secondary. Nyerguds' Command & Conquer beta gallery is a perfect example:
http://nyerguds.arsa...hive/beta1.html
http://nyerguds.arsa...hive/beta2.html

Well, it's true I could have documented some things more thoroughly.. but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a more thorough Shadow Warrior Website
I've pissed more time of my life into that game than I'd like to admit.

The 10mb per file limit on the free account is kind of a pain in the arse. I'd have all the shareware versions up there if I could.

[MrFlibble]

Robman, on 07 February 2017 - 01:54 PM, said:

The 10mb per file limit on the free account is kind of a pain in the arse. I'd have all the shareware versions up there if I could.

Gah, there goes my idea to suggest mirroring shadowwarrior.com and the Apogee/3D Realms development pages in their entirety :-\

[Robman]

MrFlibble, on 08 February 2017 - 01:12 AM, said:

Gah, there goes my idea to suggest mirroring shadowwarrior.com and the Apogee/3D Realms development pages in their entirety :-\

I wish I could save them all

Though I do have the development updates here
There seems to be different sets of development updates floating around the web which is kind of annoying.

[MrFlibble]

Just found what appears to be the earliest pages of Fallout at Interplay's website:
http://www.interplay.com:80/gurps/

The game is still called Fallout: A GURPS Post Nuclear Adventure.

[Player Lin]

MrFlibble, on 23 July 2017 - 08:22 AM, said:

Just found what appears to be the earliest pages of Fallout at Interplay's website:
http://www.interplay.com:80/gurps/

The game is still called Fallout: A GURPS Post Nuclear Adventure.

http://fallout.gamep...clear_Adventure

Yeah, it's the game was became the Fallout we got, but it was not using SPECIAL but GURPS system.

[Daedolon]

The Terminator: SkyNET (1996) - Concept Art

[MrFlibble]

Awesome find, I think I've seen some of this before in a magazine scan but in lower quality. Will you contribute these to MobyGames?

[Daedolon]

They're already there

[MrFlibble]

Some GamesDomain previews and reviews featured official screenshots, although it appears that the site tried to use own screenshots whenever possible. The only way to determine official stuff for sure is to use external sources like game packaging, magazine articles/ads or other websites. Some examples:

• Magic Carpet 2: smaller versions of same images shown at Gamespot
  
• Sandwarriors: the central image is featured on the back of the UK box

As usual, previews are more likely to contain official images, but again, some are based on pre-release demo versions (either public or press only) and may contain screenshots by the GD staff from these versions.

[MrFlibble]

Just found a preview of Command & Conquer: Red Alert which has a rather rare screenshot with the NATO logo on the Allies' sidebar, in good quality:

[MrFlibble]

Two screenshots of Raptor: Call of the Shadows were published with the Game Bytes Issue No. 16 (21 January 1994):


For reference, Raptor shareware v1.0 was released on 1 April 1994.

Game Bytes issues can be downloaded here:
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/p...games/gamebyte/

[UPD] And Issue No. 17 has these two shots from Hocus Pocus:

[MrFlibble]

Early Strife screenshots dated April 1995:
https://imgur.com/a/HbOUI

[MrFlibble]

Lots of screenshots from early LucasArts' Star Wars games (X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Rebel Assault 1 & 2) can be found here:
http://www.lucasarts.com/images/sw/

Curiously most of them seem to be not used on any of the pages at the site which were archived.

[MrFlibble]

Here's some Wayback Machine pages with official screenshots from Carmageddon & Splat Pack:
http://www.sci.co.uk/carmageddon/index.html
http://www.sci.co.uk/carmageddon/carmageddon.html
http://www.sci.co.uk/carmageddon/3dfx.html
http://www.sci.co.uk/carmageddon/index_splat.html
http://www.sci.co.uk/carmageddon/splatshots.html
http://interplay.com/carma/carma.html
http://www.interplay.com/carma/info.html
http://www.interplay.com/carma/splat/index.html
http://interplay.com/carma/maxpack/index.html
http://www.buka.com/product/carma.htm

[Altered Reality]

Take a peek of a little something I'm gonna put online "when it's done".

Spoiler

[Daedolon]

Hopefully you'll also cover the cell phone game!

[Altered Reality]

I will mention it in the timeline, but the focus of the site will be the game that was in development from 1995 to 2006.

[Daedolon]

I have been trying to find a copy of that game for some time now, there's very little information about it anywhere

[Altered Reality]

Daedolon, on 29 December 2017 - 05:27 AM, said:

I have been trying to find a copy of that game for some time now, there's very little information about it anywhere

Years ago I found an archive that was labelled as "Prey+Mobile+(SmartPhone).rar" and I archived it into my Prey archive, but I never tried it. I don't even know what kind of smartphone it's supposed to be compatible with (surely not iPhone, because MachineWorks Northwest mentions Prey Mobile way before mentioning the release of Prey Invasion on iPhone).
All I know is that the archive contains two files: one is called setup.exe and the other is called PreySetup.msi (18918 KB), and if I open PreySetup.msi with 7zip, I can extract these files:

[cybdmn]

Altered Reality, on 29 December 2017 - 07:05 PM, said:

All I know is that the archive contains two files: one is called setup.exe and the other is called PreySetup.msi (18918 KB), and if I open PreySetup.msi with 7zip, I can extract these files:

An MSI is an windows installer file, it's an database file, and 7zip just extracted the tables. If you can send me the MSI file, i can take a deeper look for what is really inside.
My assumption is, that it is maybe a game for Windows CE, which came as sometimes as an MSI file. You had to install them via Active Sync or Windows Mobile Device Center.

The setup.exe is just an wrapper, which calls the windows installer, i guess. This is a very common.