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Westwood game
Referring
to the Westwood Studios' Blade Runner game.
Westwood Studios was a computer and video games developer, founded in
1985 as Westwood Associates by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle and based in Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1992, the company was renamed
Westwood Studios and sold to Virgin Interactive.
Westwood's greatest commercial success came in 1995, with the release
of real-time strategy game Command & Conquer.
In 1998, Westwood was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA). In March
of 2003, Westwood Studios was closed by EA.
Their top games include:
*Blade Runner (1997)
*Lands of Lore:
The Throne of Chaos (1993)
*Eye of the Beholder (1990)
*World Games (1986)
*Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
(2000)
*Nox (2000)
*Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate, The (1993)
*Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon
(1991)
*Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge, The (1994)
*Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001)
World War Terminus
Book/Concept
In the pre-history of DADoES World
War Terminus left the earth devastated and nearly uninhabitable with radioactivity. Whoever could afford it (and pass the
minimum mental faculties test) migrated to Mars. It was a gradual decay.
Excerts from the book:
"The legacy
of World War Terminus had diminished in potency; those who could not survive the dust had passed into oblivion years ago,
and the dust, weaker now and confronting the strong survivors, only deranged minds and genetic properties."
"...owls
had fallen from the sky...species after species had become extinct...read in the animal obits... fox one morning, badgers
the next."
"...ads {would read} 'Emigrate or degenerate! The choice is yours!' "
This event is the backdrop
for the book and heavily influenced, and carried over, to the movie.
See also:
Ajax
Chickenhead
Lead Codpiece
Off-World
Off-World Colonization
Specials
Workprint
Shown the night of March 5, 1982 at the Continental Theater
in Denver & also shown the following evening, March 6, at the Northpark Cinema in Dallas. Resurfaced in 1990 at the Fairfax
Theater in Los Angeles, during a spring classic film festival. It was also shown in 1991 at the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts & Sciences theater, at an event called the UCLA Los Angeles Perspectives Film Festival, plus shown at the NuArt in
L.A. and the Castro Theater in San Francisco that same year.
For more information on the different verions click here.
See also:
>Director's Cut
>International Cut
>Domestic Cut
>Final Cut
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