[TOT] Early marketing screenshot of Test of Time beta

[Blake00]

Just saw this rather interesting photo posted in a retro gaming facebook group. Dunno where the guy found it, probably a google image search..

He was talking about regular Civ2 however the shot is clearly Test of Time, but it's not a perfect match for that either as...

• It's interface is more compact and transparent. Empire stats are squished up into the windows menu bar. The MGE in-game Editor is still present too.
• A bunch of the units are not their final incarnations. Same with some terrains.
• The terrain graphics is brighter and more colourful (meaning someone actually made it darker/worse later on lol or the marketing guys enhanced the screenshot cause they knew it was too dark lol)

So presumably it's a shot of a beta version of Test of Time used by the Microprose marketing department.. very interesting to see what could have been (for better or worse).

EDIT: Now some early beta shots of the original Civilization 2 have been found as well.