Prerelease:Anachronox

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Anachronox.

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Development Timeline

1996

August - Tom Hall leaves Apogee/3D Realms to join Dream Design.
October - In an interview with Gamespot, Tom Hall teases work on an RPG project.

2001

June 27th - The game is released in North America.

1996

In October, Gamespot would publish an interview with Hall. Gamespot would ask Hall about the project he was working on at Dream Design, to which he responded with:

Sure. It'll be sort of a combo between Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy, with lots of surprises, cool characters, and design innovations. We want to extend the gaming experience, not just put the same junk out with different wrapping paper.^[1]

Screenshots

IGN Anachronox Intelligence Report

Only the base architecture of the map is present, no NPCs or items. Boots is using a non-final texture with a green coat.
The Frank's sign is different in the final. Some NPCs shown never appear on that map. The time minder is missing.

Preview	Final

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E3 Gallery: Anachronox

The lasers guarding Commiteon Base are not active.
Fatima has a non-final texture with a green tint. The textures are present among the final's files.
In the final, Boots is told to find a single Nox guard's helmet to prove his worth to Grumpos, so it's not clear what he'd "find all three" of. Grumpos uses non-final textures that are present among the resources in the final.