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Debut Battlesphere Causes Uproar - 3/10/2000
BATTLESPHERE™ DEBUT CAUSES UPROAR AND REKINDLES INTEREST IN
OLDER GAME CONSOLES
March 10, 2000
CAPITOLA, CA -- The recent announcement of the completion
of the long awaited BattleSphere™ by ScatoLOGIC Inc. has
caused a rekindled interest in classic games and older
consoles, and an unprecidented renzy to own the very first
copy.
A special autographed copy of BattleSphere™ went up for
auction on eBay on February 29, 2000. As an added
incentive, the name of the high bidder was to be digitally
encoded into this very special collectors item.
On March 4th the story of the release and auction of
BattleSphere™ broke on www.slashdot.org, and in a single
day generated over 200 comments by interested readers.
Douglas Engel, ScatoLOGIC COO was completely surprised by
the amount of interest which their game generated. "In
just 4 short hours, the bandwitdh of our homepage and my
personal website exceeded our entire monthly quotas.
Surfers from all over the world linked through our sites
and were exploring the vast network of pages devoted to the
support of older systems, like the Atari 2600, Jaguar,
Lynx, and the Intellivision, Colecovision, and others,"
Engel reported. John Carmack, the creator of he immensely
popular Doom and Quake was quick to point out, "There is
something noble about developing on a dead platform -- it
is so completely or the joy of the development, without any
commercial motivation." This is especially true in the
case of ScatoLOGIC, where all profits from the game will be
donated to diabetes research.
The final bid on the auction of BattleSphere™ #1 was an
incredible $1,575.00 after 63 bids. Scott Le Grand,
ScatoLOGIC CEO states, "We expected someone might bid $400
or $500 for our game, but almost $1600 is incredible. This
makes all of the effort we put into this game very
rewarding."
Copyright 2000-2002 ScatoLOGIC Inc. All rights reserved. This article may
be reprinted in its entirety. BattleSphere™ is copyright and trademark
4Play/ScatoLOGIC. All rights reserved.
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