 The company's video game division Fox Interactive prepared to develop a video game tie-in.Cameron dropped out and the film project went on hold, but confident a remake would progress sooner or later, Fox proceeded with the video game.It was the first ever "Planet of the Apes" video game; Fox had attempted a game for the Atari 2600, but abandoned it amid the video game crash of 1983 (new designers completed and released this game as "Revenge of the Apes" in 2003).