Det är i en purfärskt intervju med det eminenta fanzinet Gaming Tyrant som MGM Games-bossen Jane Whitaker pratat i detalj om utvecklingen av Goldeneye 007 till Nintendo 64 och hur MGM och Rare inte hade så mycket som en susning om att spelet skulle explodera i popularitet och sälja många miljoner exemplar världen över.
Did you guys know how popular the game would be?
"Absolutely not. Of course we knew we had the hottest property that MGM had to offer in Goldeneye and there was a genuine desire to make the game the best it could be. That said, no-one ever knows how well a game will do. You give it all your love and passion and commitment and put a game out in the world. After that longevity and survival of a game is really down to the public reception. We were massively successful and the public were fantastic. I guess the answer why is simple: who wouldn't want to become James Bond! albeit from your living room!"
"I think it was the most creative time to be in the industry. There was just so much going on that still has resonance today. Titles such as my Alien Vs Predator and Goldeneye along with Quake and Wolfenstein and a slew of other releases really set a template for the titles that myself and other studios are still developing some 20 years later. It seems a cliché but it really was a golden age of gaming. I worked on games through the 80's but the hardware didn't really do justice to our imaginations. The Goldeneye era and machines such as the N64 and Atari Jaguar really were a quantum leap in graphical and processing power. The gaming world changed around that time with the first opportunity to actually make games that we really wanted to make. It was the start of the barriers coming down between the developer and the hardware." Länk
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