Trivia / Atmosfear

• No Export for You: For reasons unknown
  • Harbingers Booster Tape 2 was available exclusively in Austrailia.
  • Khufu was never released in the US.
• Recycled Script: Due to the 2020 release being a reissue, the accompanying app reuses most of the script from the 2004 game.
• Referenced by...: Baron Tall Tales from two MLP Analysis videos is an homage to Baron Samedi, including his "Thrill me!" catchphrase.
• Technology Marches On: The original game and its expansions lost a lot of cachet over the years because the interactive VHS game was quickly superceded by DVD, which allowed much greater interactivity and choice for the players (and likely motivated the decision for the 2004 relaunch to be released as a DVD board game).
• What Could Have Been:
  • Khufu may have had to wait 15 years for his own game, but Gevaudan and Hellin are still waiting...
  • A movie about the Gatekeeper and the Harbingers was considered, but fell through when sales for the games dropped off.
  • A video game was originally planned as a tie-in for the series, with the player character journeying through various locales associated with the series while the Gatekeeper interrupts sporadically to try and impede their progress. The game was intended for a 1994 release, but never got past the prototype stage and was never formally announced. It was eventually rediscovered in 2019 and released online.
  • Atmosfear: The Harbingers came with an order card for Prima's Atmosfear: The Source Book. Aside from a guide to the CD-ROM game Atmosfear: The Third Dimension, full-color comic adaptations of the Harbingers' stories, and behind-the-scenes reads, these 128 unseen pages were to include an "advanced game" for Harbingers. One can only wonder what this was to entail.
• You Look Familiar:
  • Wenanty Nosul plays both the Gatekeeper (in the original and The Harbingers) and Baron Samedi.
  • Frédérique Fouché plays Anne de Chantraine and Elizabeth Bathory.
  • David Whitney plays both the Gatekeeper's 2004 incarnation and Khufu.

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