We had inside sources at a video game duplication houses that would get us a copy of anything new that came into their places of business, and this was one of those games. We would hold the games until RIGHT BEFORE they were to show up at the distributors so as to hide the fact that we had gotten it when we did, as it would have been obvious where it came from. Anyway.
We got this one, and Lord Zombie (Dan) worked with Videon (the late great Drew Markham) on this intro. Drew lived in LA and co-owned/ran a company that rented movie making equipment to movie studios. "Say you need a zeus crane for 1 shot in the movie, you don't BUY it. You rent it from us, we deliver it, you get your one shot, and then we come pick it up" he'd tell me. Drew (ironic name), was a great computer artist who "drew" when he got bored. And in this case, he was bored long enough to whip up the graphics for this intro for us. And Dan wrote the code, so when we released the game we had not only the game, but a customized intro written for JUST this game.
Drew would later go on to be a big-wig in Xatrix Entertainment the company that made Redneck Rampage.
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We had inside sources at a video game duplication houses that would get us a copy of anything new that came into their places of business, and this was one of those games. We would hold the games until RIGHT BEFORE they were to show up at the distributors so as to hide the fact that we had gotten it when we did, as it would have been obvious where it came from. Anyway.
We got this one, and Lord Zombie (Dan) worked with Videon (the late great Drew Markham) on this intro. Drew lived in LA and co-owned/ran a company that rented movie making equipment to movie studios. "Say you need a zeus crane for 1 shot in the movie, you don't BUY it. You rent it from us, we deliver it, you get your one shot, and then we come pick it up" he'd tell me. Drew (ironic name), was a great computer artist who "drew" when he got bored. And in this case, he was bored long enough to whip up the graphics for this intro for us. And Dan wrote the code, so when we released the game we had not only the game, but a customized intro written for JUST this game.
Drew would later go on to be a big-wig in Xatrix Entertainment the company that made Redneck Rampage.
@FabulousFurlough: Thank you so much for those insights :)
@FabulousFurlough, thanks so much for writing down these comments!