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---------- BATTLEFIELD 1942 IS TEN YEARS OLD TODAY ----------



----- The game was released September 10th 2002 in North America and September 20th in Europe -----



September 2002 retail box :


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Original system requirements :





Most powerful 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 - mostly from September 2002 :

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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 - released September 2003

Final patch : 1.61b - December 2004




Last remnants of an offical EA Games Battlefield 1942 site :

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Before September 10th 2002 :



Earliest Bf1942 footage - Gamespot at Camp EA - July 25th 2001 :

Notice the user interface and crane-ships ... outrageous !

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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Ten year old demo - inferior in every way to the retail game, and people still play it .... OMFG !




Anyway .... once again :




------------- !!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BATTLEFIELD 1942 !!! -------------

[mexican eskimo]

"it seems like it will have a big huge following for a long time online."

I just laugh at their noobness, shooting out of the top gun in apc, prime sniper target.

[mattybeast]

[dodgem]

That screenshot on the start menu in the "Earliest BF1942 Footage" video of the coffins draped in flags - did they reuse that somewhere in the actual game, because I swear I recognise it yet don't think I ever played the demo.....

[Bullet-BS]

I just laugh at their noobness, shooting out of the top gun in apc, prime sniper target.

One of my more favorite shots

[-=TheTroopeR=-]

So many good memories !! somuch fun... best $ invested ever !!!

LONG LIVE BF 1942 AND ALL MODS !!!!

I can´t forguet firts games and that we were all noobs finding out lot of the game and telling the
others what amazing it was !

[gensolo]

Happy Birthday to my first introduction into PC gaming.

I miss it, and wish I could play.

[Grinch]

Woah, 10 years.. It feels longer almost.

Incredible how much technology and gaming has changed, and yet this is still the most die-hard of the series.

Great times had, untold thousands of hours..and hopefully some thousands more!!

[Angerfist]

Two years ago, I heard a lot of "the game is dying" ...

One year ago, I heard a lot of "this game has only a few months left" ...

THANK YOU GUYS FOR KEEPING IT ALIVE ! KEEP ON ROCKING !

... and Waidmanns Heil (good hunting !) everyone ! Keep on kicking butt, ladies and gentlemen !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qryyyp42vX0&feature=related

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Hidden treasures revealed by advanced net search. Screens from April to December 2000. Don’t think earlier exist on the Interweb.





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- Crane structures weren’t ships - were docks.

- 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.



// Regards - X, the vidgame historian.

[Catman]

I came across this video the other night and thought it was pretty cool.

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.... ea still remembers 42 ....











http://blogs.battlef...iversary-intro/



http://blogs.battlefield.com/




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Edited by X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X, 20 September 2012 - 02:40 PM.

[gensolo]

Maybe they will release a digital copy of 1942 and a new era will be born.

[ApocalipseNow=BR=]

CONGRATULARTIONS all BF_players!!
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Edited by ApocalipseNow=BR=, 22 September 2012 - 06:12 AM.