Trivia
In the German gaming magazine PC Player (issue 01/1995) Magic Carpet was named "Best Game of 1994".
The Sega Saturn version of Magic Carpet did not contain all of the game's levels.
The missing levels are: 9, 18, 29, 34 and 40.
Contributed by
Jeanne 
(59321) on Aug 13, 2008.
The first game to be enhanced for the then-new Pentium processor (as advertised proudly on the front of the box). Bullfrog recommended a P75 as the minimum system requirement, although the game ran on 486 processors and was playable enough on a 486DX/100.
One of the reasons Magic Carpet didn't sell well was that many gamers thought it was just a ripoff of Doom, even though they are completely different. Bullfrog unintentionally fostered this idea with a series of ads they ran for Magic Carpet, which contained hooks such as "BFG = BFD". The BFG is Doom's strongest weapon, and BFD is an acronym for "big f***ing deal".
Contributed by
Maw (827) on Jun 05, 2005.
Received the Game of the Year Award 1994 in France and Germany.
Contributed by
Maw (827) on Nov 02, 2004.
The game made several appearances in the Australian soap Neighbours, as the Kennedy family owned it and were frequently seen playing.
Magic Carpet had what was perhaps the best graphics engine of that time. The engine features, among other things:
- dynamically lighted, gouraud shaded, changable ("morphable") landscape.
- scene reflections in the water
- distance fog
- transparency effects, such as the transparent "HUD".
all this, and the game logic, running full-screen on a 486DX66. This game is a programming miracle, years ahead of its time.
The original release of Magic Carpet contained a bug which meant you could not complete level 50. This was later fixed with a patch and was rectified in all re-releases.
Electronic Arts released Magic Carpet again with the Hidden Worlds add-on in one package under the
name of Magic Carpet Plus. The package also includes free 3-D glasses.
Contributed by
Accatone (5228) on Jan 13, 2000.
Magic Carpet was one of the first games to support 3D viewers/glasses in many different configurations. You can use virutal reality headsets, red/blue glasses... the program will even generate a realtime random dot stereogram!
Contributed by
Trixter (8865) on Nov 01, 1999.
