pics, vids n’ info from the beginnings of 42

X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X · 2013-05-01 01:09:33

This is a compilation from a thread I made in another forum related to BF1942’s 10th anniversary ... plus a little extra.

I hope the SiMPLE forum won't mind a post too - better late than never [-:
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2012 interview with some of the key people behind Battlefield 1942, talking about this game and the series in general :

http://blogs.battlefield.com/2012/09/10 … y-veterans

Original Battlefield 1942 design sketches and concept art, released November 2012 :

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/ne … 7691519647

- press pics for full size -

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Screenshots - April to December 2000

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- Looks like reviving may have been planned at some point.

- Xbox version was also in the making, but was ditched :

Battlefield 1942 announced for the Xbox :

Jan 23, 2001 8:53 pm PST

EA will publish Digital Illusions' WWII-based action game on Microsoft's next-generation console.

Electronic Arts announced today that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Swedish developer Digital Illusions to

publish Battlefield 1942 for the Microsoft Xbox and PC platforms.

Battlefield 1942 canceled for the Xbox :

January 14, 2003 7:32 PM PST

EA Games' World War II-themed first-person shooter will no longer be released for the Xbox.

Electronic Arts has informed GameSpot that the Xbox version of Battlefield 1942 has been canceled. The company canceled

the game so the development team could focus all its efforts on the upcoming expansion for the PC version of Battlefield

1942.

Earliest BF 1942 footage - Gamespot at Camp EA - July 25th 2001 :

- notice the user interface and docks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXuXqSs6csA

First public trailer - released May 8th 2002 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jZweyDENEI

Two public BF1942 demos were released before the game :

Singleplayer demo - one map - Tobruk - 133 MegaByte - July 19th 2002

Multiplayer demo - one map - Wake - 130 MegaByte - August 16th 2002 - 16 players max

Wake demo press release :

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2002

Prepare for battle! Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS) today announced the release of the first multiplayer demo for its WWII

first-person action game, Battlefield 1942™. The demo, featuring the battle of Wake Island, is set for release on Friday,

August 16. The demo will support up to 16 gamers playing as either Japanese or American forces struggling to invade or

defend Wake Island.

Tobruk SP demo v. 1.0 screens - taken September 2012 :

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Wake MP demo v. 1.0 screens - taken September 2012 :

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September 2002 retail box :

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Original system requirements :

Most powerful desktop GPU and CPU - September 2002 :

GeForce4 Ti4600 --- 63 million transistors - 150 nanometer process - 300 mhz chip clock - 650 mhz ddr1 ram - 128 mb

default ram amount - released February 6th 2002

Pentium 4 --- 55 million transistors - 130 nanometer process - 2.8 ghz - single core - released August 25th 2002

Gamespot video review - posted September 16th 2002 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwgFqOxSLcs

Ten reviews from September 2002 :

http://www.firingsquad.com/games/bf1942review
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/battlefield-1942/545027p1.html
http://us.gamespot.com/battlefield-1942 … ew-2880344
http://www.cpugamer.com/reviews/32/Batt … 942-Review
http://www.ign.com/articles/2002/09/16/battlefield-1942
http://www.actiontrip.com/reviews/battl … 1942.phtml
http://www.game-over.com/reviews/pc/Bat … _1942.html
http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/battlefield-1942
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/r_bf1942_pc
http://www.avault.com/reviews/pc/battle … -pc-review

Maps included at launch - 16 : Battle of the Bulge - Battleaxe - Berlin - Bocage - El Alamein - Gazala - Guadalcanal -

Iwo Jima - Kharkov - Kursk - Market Garden - Midway - Omaha Beach - Stalingrad - Tobruk - Wake Island

Maps added over the next 1½ years - 5 : Aberdeen - Coral Sea - Battle of Britain - Invasion of the Philippines -

Liberation of Caen

Road to Rome - released February 2003

Secret Weapons – relased September 2003

Final patch : 1.61b - December 2004

Battlefield 1942 released as free download on Origin – November 5th 2012

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Last edited by X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X (2013-11-15 19:57:38)

seventy · 2013-05-01 01:34:37

Very interesting, thanks my bro.

Ramjet · 2013-05-01 03:31:33

cool stuff!

let me add my favourite historical bf1942 bug. i think i quit the game for like a year when it was patched away late 2003 this was back when lachesis was still sucking on mommy's titties!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4udfU6sCqFI
(skip to 2:00)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUYkkdl3W6s

joint · 2013-05-01 04:38:03

yep, cool stuff indeed

Ramjet, wtf was that)? how to fly from those places?

*####*|Ldr.|1614 · 2013-05-01 05:08:14

Talk about makeing me relive 2002 lol.....

I started out on Tobruk and later moved to the demo wake on ea servers and others then the full game came out.

Last edited by *####*|Ldr.|1614 (2013-05-01 05:09:21)

ziba128 · 2013-05-01 05:40:55

Wow, very interesting, thank you!

I have never seen these screenshots from 2000, where did you get them?

I found some also, LensFlares haven't been disabled yet (video from 2001 shows it too, the sun is shining through Katyusha cabin)...

Why did they turn it off

Looks like a function of heart massage?

Trees here look much better for me than in final release:

Last edited by ziba128 (2013-05-01 05:43:55)

tuia · 2013-05-01 19:34:55

Amazing collection! Thanks for posting! This interview with Lars Gustavsson from DICE is worth watching Battlefield Origins: Designing BF1942

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