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booklets, a prostitute's card :) and a Medievil PSX sticker kit. And some beans.}}</ref> | booklets, a prostitute's card :) and a Medievil PSX sticker kit. And some beans.}}</ref> | ||
*There was a ''MediEvil'' themed bar at the Sony party that took place after day two of ECTS. A coffin was allegedly stolen from said bar.<ref>{{Cite web|quote=You jest, but last year someone managed to swipe a coffin from the MediEvil bar at the sony party.|author=Brown, Iain|published=April 16, 1999|title=ECTS and Sony mugs :)|site=uk.game.video.playstation|url=https://groups.google.com/g/uk.games.video.playstation/c/bee8QfKm2JA/m/5Yg-wblmTvUJ}}</ref> | *There was a ''MediEvil'' themed bar at the Sony party that took place after day two of ECTS. A coffin was allegedly stolen from said bar.<ref>{{Cite web|quote=You jest, but last year someone managed to swipe a coffin from the MediEvil bar at the sony party.|author=Brown, Iain|published=April 16, 1999|title=ECTS and Sony mugs :)|site=uk.game.video.playstation|url=https://groups.google.com/g/uk.games.video.playstation/c/bee8QfKm2JA/m/5Yg-wblmTvUJ}}</ref> | ||
*ECTS press CDs called [[Power Source]] were given out to members of the press. The [[Power Source ECTS '98 Press CD | *ECTS press CDs called [[Power Source]] were given out to members of the press. The [[Power Source ECTS '98 Press CD ♯1|first disc]] contained the logo, renders, box art, screenshots, and press releases from ''MediEvil''. | ||
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| Date | September 6-9 | ||
| Location | Olympia London | ||
The European Computer Trade Show 1998 was an event held at the Olympia London exhibition centre from September 6 to September 9.
MediEvil at ECTS 1998
- A demo of MediEvil was playable at the event at Stand G700.[1][dead link][2][3]
- As was the case for Tekken 3, Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot: Warped, the PlayStation kiosks with the game were placed around a big statue of the game's protagonist enclosed within a spherical cage.[4]
- A demo disc featuring a MediEvil demo, and a MediEvil sticker kit for the PlayStation console were given away for free.[5][6]
- There was a MediEvil themed bar at the Sony party that took place after day two of ECTS. A coffin was allegedly stolen from said bar.[7]
- ECTS press CDs called Power Source were given out to members of the press. The first disc contained the logo, renders, box art, screenshots, and press releases from MediEvil.
See also
References
- ↑ "Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (Stand G700) will have its big Christmas 98 titles, including Crash Bandicoot 3, Spyro the Dragon, Tekken 3 and Medieval,[sic] the first title from its Cambridge development studio." — ECTS 98: SONY AND NINTENDO TO OUTLINE CHRISTMAS 98 AND 99 PLANS AS HUNDREDS OF NEW TITLES ARE SET FOR EUROPEAN DEBUT on ResponseSource. Published August 6, 1998. Retrieved July 11, 2021.
- ↑ "MediEvil was one of the Sony developed games that was on show in the main product areas." — IGN Staff, ECTS: Sony Displays The Lot on IGN. Published September 10, 1998.
- ↑ "I've just checked the floorplan on www.ects.com, and we are on stand G700, which looks like it's in the same place as it was last year." — Donovan, Paul, ECTS....No Sony? on uk.games.video.playstation. Published August 11, 1999. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
- ↑ Templo dos Jogos: Especial ECTS, 10:03.
- ↑ Graham, Goring, ECTS impressions on uk.games.video.playstation. Published September 8, 1998.
- ↑ "18 CDs, 2 proper bags, foreign mags, latest OPSM, tons of promo booklets, a prostitute's card :) and a Medievil PSX sticker kit. And some beans." — J, Chris, The Slider Files - European Computer Trade Show 1998. on uk.games.video.playstation. Published September 10, 1998.
- ↑ "You jest, but last year someone managed to swipe a coffin from the MediEvil bar at the sony party." — Brown, Iain, ECTS and Sony mugs :) on uk.game.video.playstation. Published April 16, 1999.
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