Epic Meganews #1
- Posted:
- 18 May 2014 at 08:55
- Source:
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Twenty years ago, May 18 1994, the first Epic Meganews issue was emailed out to Epic’s subscribers. It heavily promoted the upcoming One Must Fall 2097, advertised some new tables for Epic Pinball, gave some warnings about Epic Baseball’s development, and oh yes, snuck in one little sentence toward the very end:
“In the next edition, we’ll tell you about Jazz Jackrabbit, the fastest and most stunning scrolling action game ever on the PC.”
You can read the entire issue here, where it was soon forwarded by Joe Siegler.
It’s not the anniversary of the game yet — that’ll come in August, with the third Meganews issue — but it’s been twenty years since that first almost-invisible teaser.
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Violet CLM on 18 May 2014 at 09:01
(I’ve been waiting to post this for months)
Slaz on 18 May 2014 at 09:23
Wasn’t this or a similar Meganews message posted sometime on J2O’s news before?
Anyway, back in 1994 I was still a kid in primary school without internet/BB access anywhere to be found in my local environment. :P
Roobar on 18 May 2014 at 11:23
At fist I thought this was an mega news for an upcoming Jazz game.