Skyborg: Into the Vortex
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Skyborg: Into the Vortex was a CD-ROM
science fiction
computer game released in 1995 by the trading card company SkyBox International
, Inc. and Fringe Multimedia. It was based on a series of trading cards by various artists created especially for the game, which were released simultaneously with the game. Each copy of the game came with a random pack of the cards. Card artists included: Dave Dorman
, Julie Bell
(wife of Boris Vallejo
), Brom
, and Brian Stelfreeze
.
Players assume the role of Skyborg, a cyborg in the year 2025, on a dangerously overpopulated Earth
low on food. Dr. Sinclair Barton has created a torus-shaped pocket universe
to alleviate this problem. You must enter this universe and travel from planet to planet gathering clues to figure out what has gone wrong and where Dr. Barton is.
The credit sequence featured a song by the otherwise unknown band Primal Future.
The game's lead designer was Carl Schnurr. Eric Garrison, Director of Online Services, for SkyBox was Technical Director. This game was the brain child of George White, Mark Davidson, Eric Garrison and Rick Ferguson of SkyBox who wanted to combine a CD Rom interactive game with Trading Cards.
This was one of the first cross platform CD ROM games released.
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....
science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
computer game released in 1995 by the trading card company SkyBox International
SkyBox International
SkyBox International Inc. was an American trading card manufacturing company based in Durham, North Carolina. A subsidiary of Vector Group, it was originally formed as Impel Marketing in 1989. In 1990, the company was renamed SkyBox International...
, Inc. and Fringe Multimedia. It was based on a series of trading cards by various artists created especially for the game, which were released simultaneously with the game. Each copy of the game came with a random pack of the cards. Card artists included: Dave Dorman
Dave Dorman
Dave Dorman is a science fiction, horror and fantasy illustrator.-Background:Dorman's parents are Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jack N. Dorman and Phyllis Dorman. Both parents are deceased. Dorman is married to award-winning TV/video producer, writer and publicist Denise Dorman of WriteBrain Media...
, Julie Bell
Julie Bell
Julie Bell is an American painter. A fantasy artist and wildlife artist, she is a former bodybuilder and fantasy model for her husband, painter Boris Vallejo.-Career:...
(wife of Boris Vallejo
Boris Vallejo
Boris Vallejo is a Peruvian-born American painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and he currently resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter, and model....
), Brom
Gerald Brom
Gerald Brom is an American gothic fantasy artist and illustrator, known for his work in role-playing games, novels, and comics.-Early life:Brom was born March 9, 1965, in Albany, Georgia. As the son of a U.S...
, and Brian Stelfreeze
Brian Stelfreeze
Brian Stelfreeze is an American comic book artist. Stelfreeze, an accomplished painter, penciller, inker and colorist, has worked for nearly every major American comic book publisher and is one of the original members of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios, a prominent breeding ground for some of comics' most...
.
Players assume the role of Skyborg, a cyborg in the year 2025, on a dangerously overpopulated Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
low on food. Dr. Sinclair Barton has created a torus-shaped pocket universe
Pocket universe
-In science:A pocket universe is a concept in inflationary theory, proposed by Alan Guth. It defines a realm like the one that contains the observable universe as only one of many inflationary zones.-In fiction:...
to alleviate this problem. You must enter this universe and travel from planet to planet gathering clues to figure out what has gone wrong and where Dr. Barton is.
The credit sequence featured a song by the otherwise unknown band Primal Future.
The game's lead designer was Carl Schnurr. Eric Garrison, Director of Online Services, for SkyBox was Technical Director. This game was the brain child of George White, Mark Davidson, Eric Garrison and Rick Ferguson of SkyBox who wanted to combine a CD Rom interactive game with Trading Cards.
This was one of the first cross platform CD ROM games released.
Planets
- Lost - A mall-like planet.
- Merika - Post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- Survivors - Bizarre world that has physically fragmented.
- Grotton - Magical Medieval planet.
- Gibralte - Technologically advanced planet.
- Naugle - Swamp planet.
- Projectile - Polluted, mid-level technology planet.
- Marcon -