Escape Velocity Press Kit
| Filename | escape-velocity-press-kit.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 343.6 KB (351851 bytes) |
| Downloads | 12 |
The Escape Velocity Press Kit collects the promotional materials Ambrosia Software distributed to journalists and reviewers for their 1996 Macintosh space-trading and combat game. It is a companion download rather than a playable build, preserved on Macintosh Garden alongside the game itself for historical reference.
About Escape Velocity
Escape Velocity, written by Matt Burch and published by Ambrosia, set players loose in a 23rd-century galaxy of more than a hundred worlds, with branching Confederation and Rebellion storylines, freelance trading, bounty hunting, and ship-to-ship combat in a top-down view.
What a press kit contains
Press kits of this era typically bundled a fact sheet, a written description of the game, screenshots, and the publisher's logo art, packaged so that magazines and online reviewers could illustrate coverage without recapturing assets themselves.
Why it matters
Escape Velocity became one of Ambrosia's defining commercial releases and helped cement the company's reputation as a major Mac-only publisher, making its launch-era press materials a useful artifact for anyone documenting late-1990s Mac gaming.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
