90 days later, I found out our games are terrible, no one is buying them, our best engineers started leaving, and with 120 people and a huge burn rate, we’re running out of money and about to crash.'Īfter the disappointing sales of their early games, RSG turned to SegaSoft to take over as the sole publisher for their titles in development.

The press called Rocket Science one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley and predicted that our games would be great because the storyboards and trailers were spectacular. 'We raised $35 million and after 18 months made the cover of Wired magazine. All of them were commercial failures Jeff Sengstack of NewMedia wrote that they 'bombed miserably' and each sold below 20,000 units by 1997. Founded at the height of the FMV video game craze of the 1990s, their first three games utilized the technology heavily. Staffed with some of the brightest rising stars of the computer, comics and movie industries, RSG created a huge buzz even before the release of their first titles and claimed to be on the verge of revolutionizing the video game industry using full motion video (FMV). Sega Enterprises and the Bertelsmann Music Group infused RSG with $12 million in funding in May 1994, thus becoming RSG's North American and European publishers, respectively. Rocket Science Games (RSG) was an independent game studio founded by Steve Blank and Peter Barrett in 1993 to combine the creative forces of Hollywood and Silicon Valley into compelling cinematic videogames. Despite heavy promotion of the company and its products, all of its games reviewed and sold poorly, and the company became a high profile failure. The staff included auteurs of video game design, such as Brian Moriarty and Will Harvey. Rocket Science Games was founded by serial startup entrepreneur Steve Blank in 1993. Six additional games were never completed. After the company folded, it was published by SegaSoft. The Space Bar was the final game developed by Rocket Science. Wing Nuts: Battle in the Sky, Rocket Jockey, and Obsidian. The company released Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm, Rocket Science Games was a video game developer and publisher that created games for consoles and personal computers from 1993 to 1997.

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