Black ICE/White Noise: The Great Atari Jaguar CD Title That Never Was…

[DegasElite]

I understand the shelter-in-place situation with that, of course. Hopefully, vaccines for COVID-19 come out soon. That would help.

[Scott Stilphen]

On 11/19/2020 at 12:18 PM, PSVITAGAMER2012 said:

Years ago, Curt Vendel ended up with everything that still survived of this rather ambitious Atari project -- Atari had spent between $3 and 5 million dollars getting it to the 30% completion state in ended up at (was it is a higher percentage? ). The last day of production on this was, Sept 7th 1995, I believe. The Black Ice Team was disbanded and the project was abandoned that day. All materials were trashed or auctioned off by Jack/Sam Tramiel/the famous ( infamous? ) Don Thomas Actions of 1996, I understand. The HDDs and everything just disappeared to it and were lost, it seems. The HDDs have never been found and Curt did not seem to have them. None of the Team was allowed to keep anything from the project by Leonard or Atari Security when they each left and everything halted. Little of the project still survives nowadays, you know. The sands of time have claimed everything else that existed and it has been lost, it seems...  Really sad. 😞😞😞😞

Vendel ended up with "everything that survived".... how, exactly?  What's your source of this information?  Did Vendel personally tell you that?  Or did he publicly state that somewhere?

You say all materials were trashed or auctioned off in 1996 and that the hard drives "and everything" just disappeared, and Vendel didn't seem to have it (so I guess if Vendel doesn't have it, nobody does?).  "None of the BI/WN team kept anything"...?  Then explain how BJ West has 2 different revisions of the game (with the later being the very last version of the game burned to disc before Atari closed up shop), plus the soundtrack?

http://bjwest.com/BIWN/

In this interview with BJ West, he claims the game was some 50%-70% complete:

https://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/bj-west/