You may be a pining sapphic but you probably aren't at Tegan Jovanka's level of "crying whilst talking to and tenderly stroking sarcophagus containing comatose best gal pal who's been unconscious for several thousand years" pining.
Some time after the release of 'Gadget Past as Future', Synergy produced a companion CD-ROM named 'Preview & Reprise'. Those who followed the work of Haruhiko Shono more closely will understand the importance of this particular item. It took me quite a few years to find it but, unbelieavable as it may sound, I was able to locate a brand new copy. As I am not a collector, I find no pleasure in keeping items sealed while waiting for their online resale value to rise. The only motive why I have not posted about it before, in fact, relates to my only being able to get hold of it at the precise time I put video game blogging in the backburner.
Other than the exclusive Quicktime VR clips for both objects and panoramas of Gadget, offering a curious glimpse of what Gadget might have been had this technology existed five years before, the disc became something of a holy grail due to its inclusion of a trailer for Shono's unreleased interactive movie 'Underworld: The Sands of Time', a project whose production coincided with the demise of Synergy Inc. in 1997. There are also three double-sided card included with the disc - about half the size of a playing card - and a few other high-resolution renders to be found in the instructions booklet. The wide Underworld poster above was scanned by joining the three cards together. A fair bit of image editing was used to remove the borders and smooth the transitions.
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To provide a more complete notion of P&R, I captured a brief video showing the menu navigation and some of the audiovisual contents. I have also taken the liberty of making all of its trailers available on Eastern Mind's Vimeo channel for a higher quality viewing experience.