21
Jun
…Another wonderful Origin ad layout from 1993! What are the odds? I wonder if there's anything interesting in here...
Academy's stunning key art is by Chris Douglas (again!) and Jake Rodgers, another one of Origin's talented early 3D artists. It has two Return of the Jedi explosions, too! The oddest part is the ships which... aren't in the game at all, no "Dralthi MK VII" in Academy.
These ads started running late summer 1993 and continued through the end of the year. There was a pretty significant running change towards the end of the campaign that's worth comparing to the scan above:
The first one: "holodeck console" becomes "holographic simulator". I've worked in game marketing long enough to know EXACTLY how that conversation with legal went.
The other one is that "The Wave" becomes "The Gauntlet"... that's clearly a development change and it is a much better name!