Maximum Surge [3DO/Saturn - Unreleased?]

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7 May 2008

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Maximum Surge is a cancelled game by Digital Pictures. Planned for release in 1996 for the 3DO, MAC, PC and Sega Saturn. It featured full-motion video in the same way that many of Digital Pictures’ releases of the time did. The game featured Walter Koenig, Yasmine Bleeth, and Michael Champion. The game was directed by William Mesa, and written by J. Garrett Glover & Charlie Ogden. The game stars you as an unnamed soldier, as you join forces with Jo (Yasmine Bleeth) against Drexel (Walter Koenig), who is trying to replace humanity with evil cyborg beings which transfer information by means of umbilical data cords. It is up to you to destroy his bases and ultimately face him in the final battle. Many internet sources disagree on the existence of this game. Flash Film Works, the people responsible for the special effects used in the game, claim that it was unreleased; however, the ESRB lists it as having been released on different game consoles, and even gives it a rating. [Info from Wikipedia]

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3 Responses to Maximum Surge [3DO/Saturn - Unreleased?]

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Celine

April 23rd, 2009 at 9:48 pm

Ultimately, Maximum Surge was never released. Two months before the projected release date, focus groups produced enough good suggestions that Digital Pictures delayed the game another six months to implement them all. Unfortunately, the company closed down before Maximum Surge could be sent to market, and Zito sold off the rights to another publisher. Some of its footage was eventually combined with that of other titles and released as the movie Game Over, but as a game it was dead, and with it died Zito’s dream of making FMV the wave of the future

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Are you interested in scans about this one ?

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monokoma

April 24th, 2009 at 2:26 pm

More scans? Sure, they are welcome! :)

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Celine

April 24th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Sorry it seems as I can’t find that article anymore ( I read to much old magazines in the past weeks … )

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