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A video game based on the film, Congo the Movie: The Lost City of Zinj, was released for Sega Saturn in 1996. A different game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis was in development, but was cancelled. [20] Another adventure game was released for PC and Macintosh called Congo the Movie: Descent into Zinj.
Because Crichton had sold all adaptation rights to the novel, he set the game, named Amazon, in South America, and Amy the gorilla became Paco the parrot. [50] That year Crichton also wrote and directed Runaway (1984), a police thriller set in the near future which was a box office disappointment.
Best-selling novelist and director Michael Crichton was a computer hobbyist who taught himself the programming language BASIC.In the early 1980s he, programmer Stephen Warady, and artist David Durand began developing an Apple II graphic adventure game based on Crichton's novel Congo; he sometimes programmed game sequences which Warady converted into much faster assembly language.
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote 29 novels and his books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. He wrote 29 novels and his books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films.
Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigating the mysterious deaths of a previous expedition in the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo .
This is a list of the highest-grossing films based on video games, primarily both live-action and animated films.. As of February 2025, Nintendo's The Super Mario Bros. Movie held the distinction as the highest-grossing video game film, while Pokémon is the highest-grossing video game film franchise and Resident Evil is the highest-grossing video game live-action film franchise.
Crichton's assistant discovered the manuscript on one of Crichton's computers after his death in 2008, along with an unfinished novel, Micro (2011). [1]According to Marla Warren, there is evidence that Crichton had been working on Pirate Latitudes at least since the 1970s; to substantiate her position, she quotes a statement by Patrick McGilligan in the March 1979 issue of American Film that ...
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