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If CD-i was allowed to live a little longer, CapDisc released Space Pirates on CD-i

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Mad Dog McCree, Crime Patrol, Who Shot Johnny Rock, Drug Wars, The Last Bounty Hunter.... CapDisc was pretty happy with the nice digital video quality of these FMV shooters. They fit the CD-i quite nicely. No other version offers the same quality. It is one of the few game catagories that CD-i was actually shining in. It's a pity that CapDisc went bankrupt in 1997, around the same time The Last Bounty Hunter was released on CD-i. It was even a close call that The Last Bounty Hunter would not have been released at all on CD-i. 

In early '95, CapDisc merged with a company that had most of their staff in St. Petersburg, Russia. The people there got paid a fraction of what we did. Our management figured that we were all pretty interchangeable, and laid off half of us. The first sign that they'd made a mistake was that they had to hire back a bunch of people as contractors to finish the projects they were working on. The second sign was that most of us were immediately hired by their competition. The third was that, a few weeks later, half of the remaining people quit because all of their friends had been fired. They hired a bunch of new people to fill in the gaps, but they had lost a lot of expertise. On top of that, I heard that coordinating with the folks in Russia didn't go quite as smoothly as they had hoped. The company went down the tubes about a year later.



One interesting aspect that we learnt though was that CapDisc had another FMV Shooter on the shelves ready to port to CD-i: If CapDisc and the CD-i platform would have lived a little longer, we would have seen a port of Space Pirates on CD-i. CapDisc had the framework ready, the video files were ready. Unfortunately they didn't finish their projects, and Space Pirates ended just like John Dark: Psychic Eye did.

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