FX FIGHTER ever planned for the SNES?

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Somehow I seem to remember thinking that FX Fighter would be ported to
the SNES. Maybe this was just a false assumption on my part because of
Nintendo's "FX chip". Can anyone confirm or deny?

 

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On 26 May 2005 01:04:19 -0700, "The Space Boss" <drsmith666@aol.com>
wrote:

>Somehow I seem to remember thinking that FX Fighter would be ported to
>the SNES. Maybe this was just a false assumption on my part because of
>Nintendo's "FX chip". Can anyone confirm or deny?

No, it did indeed start development as a SNES title (or perhaps both)
before ending up as a PC game. Seems like it was under an alternate
title for a while early on, too, but I can't recall what.

Needless to say, the SNES version wasn't released, but dig around in
EGM and whatnot from the time and you can find pics of that version.

-lugnut

 

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"The Space Boss" <drsmith666@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Somehow I seem to remember thinking that FX Fighter would be ported to
> the SNES. Maybe this was just a false assumption on my part because of
> Nintendo's "FX chip". Can anyone confirm or deny?

I saw a very early demo for it at CES, but it was cancelled before the end
of the show because GTI (or whoever it was) was getting out of games/selling
their games division or something like that. It probably had an FX chip in
it to get that look.

Dane.

 

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"lugnut" <lugnut@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 26 May 2005 01:04:19 -0700, "The Space Boss" <drsmith666@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Somehow I seem to remember thinking that FX Fighter would be ported to
> >the SNES. Maybe this was just a false assumption on my part because of
> >Nintendo's "FX chip". Can anyone confirm or deny?
>
> No, it did indeed start development as a SNES title (or perhaps both)
> before ending up as a PC game. Seems like it was under an alternate
> title for a while early on, too, but I can't recall what.

Thats correct, its workiong title back then was 'Fighting Polygon' or
something along the lines of that.


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>it was cancelled before the end of the show because GTI (or whoever
>it was) was getting out of games/selling their games division

The company was GTE Entertainment, a subsidiary of GTE Corporation -
better known at the time as a national telephone company (who I
happened to be working for at the time). FX Fighters was the only game
they had planned for a home console. Otherwise they had a few PC titles
(not all of them games), most of which were terrible.

 

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>Okay. I thought they were going by the name GT Interactive at the time, but
>I wasn't sure. (I think they even changed their name a few times in the 6
>months or so that they seemed to be serious about releasing games.)

Well, I did find on reference to the company as "GTE Interactive", but
I'm quite sure that is incorrect. BTW, GTE was only the distributor, I
think the developer was actually Argonaut. I think.

 

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"Dan Mazurowski" <kingsmedley@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >it was cancelled before the end of the show because GTI (or whoever
> >it was) was getting out of games/selling their games division
>
> The company was GTE Entertainment, a subsidiary of GTE Corporation -
> better known at the time as a national telephone company (who I
> happened to be working for at the time). FX Fighters was the only game
> they had planned for a home console. Otherwise they had a few PC titles
> (not all of them games), most of which were terrible.

Okay. I thought they were going by the name GT Interactive at the time, but
I wasn't sure. (I think they even changed their name a few times in the 6
months or so that they seemed to be serious about releasing games.)

Dane.