Post by ziggycashmere on Jul 7, 2023 16:38:36 GMT
In 1996 a new company by the name of MediaX was developing a game titled Surf and Destroy alongside Grolier Interactive and Toon Smiths. The game followed a "renegade hacker" entering the internet to destroy a virus created by villain Rood O' Door. It was a real-time 3D game (though quite primitive) that heavily relied on jumping. The game was going to have fully rendered and animated cutscenes.
The game was slated for release on December of 1996, was pushed, then the plug was pulled entirely due to declining business.
The game was created by Larry Kay of Toon Smiths and Matt MacLauren, Gaben Chancellor and Eric Ellis of MediaX. A demo of the game was released alongside a demo of "Banzai Bug" (a game that was released). While it's extremely rare it was dumped on the Internet Archive by Jason Scott back in 2017. However, it only has two levels out of the original eighteen. Thankfully, two of the cutscenes are sitting in the files, which you can watch here.
Anyway, I've talked to Larry Kay about it. He said that he no longer has possession of the game's assets, they're all gone. All that exists, at least that he knows of, is the demo disc and a mockup box he made himself sitting somewhere in storage. I still need to get in contact with Gaben, Eric, and Matt. If I ever find more on this, I'll keep posted. But I'd appreciate if nobody else would contact developers on this, given that I've already gotten off on the right foot with Larry.
Also, small thing to note, MediaX has two other lost games. "Web War" and "Big Brother."
