Wired blogger Chris Kohler pointed out the elephant in the corner, that possibly Zootfly’s move was simply to create some buzz and establish some name recognition for TimeO.
Speculation: after the licensing deal fell through, and with the opportunity to put themselves on the map fading away, ZootFly decided to leak what they had. They figured that when journalists came a-knockin’, they’d direct them to their other project, TimeO, which nobody would have cared about otherwise.
The response from most people would be, “Well, no duh. Quit pooping on our cake.” It’s true that if this is the motivation behind Zootfly posting the videos to the web, and that regardless of their assertions otherwise, their shot at a GB game is dead in the water, it would suck, but since we’ll never know for sure, we might as well dream. Thanks to CrazyMrTibbs for spotting the link.
King of the white-boy rappers (don’t let Eminem tell you otherwise) and the reigning 800 pound gorilla of Nerdcore Rap, MC Chris spotted the Zootfly videos and expressed his love for the GBs. He also hinted that his new album is drawing inspiration from Ghostbusters, which likely means some solid references to the movie.
the ghostbusters is one of the many muses of the new album. that and whodini’s haunted house of rock.
and there is no gorilla in the ghostbusters.
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Here’s a link to the Wired blog post, in case anyone is interesting in seeing the whole thing:
http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/01/zootfly_talks_m.html
Nuts – I forgot to add the link. Thanks Paul.
In the future, assume negligence, not deliberation, and let me know.
I think it wouldn’t be hard to convince anybody that a Ghostbusters game would be a sure win. It’s not like you’d have to convince entertainment companies to take a chance on old properties… they’re remaking and reimagining everything left and right. They just did Superman, Transformers is on the way, I’ve heard rumors about a Knight Rider movie in the works… I wonder though, if they get the go-ahead, who they’ll get to do the voice-acting. Would they get a cheap Bill Murray imitator? That might be lame.
You know what they really need to get to work on? A video game based on the Run DMC film “Tougher Than Leather.” Right? Who’s with me? I say WHO’S WITH ME???
Eh, that may be true, but c’mon… the Ghostbusters license can’t be terribly difficult to obtain. Recently we’ve seen comic books, novels, toys and even a couple video games based on EGB. If Zootfly wants it, they’ll get it. I can’t imagine a deal falling through.
I know a bit more about what’s going on at Sony at a corporate level, and yes, it can be hard to get the license.