Initially to be published by MGM Interactive in late 1998, they sold the rights of the game to Sony while retaining a producer credit.

As thanks, the corporation set up an exhibition showing their orange mascot fighting off the entire SenTrax army on July 4, 2098, broadcast live over the Internet.

As a result, Tiny's "positronic brain" (his artificial intelligence system) shattered, and its shards gave "life" to the entire robot army.

But then on July 4, 2198 A.D., which was 100 years later, Tiny Tank was finally restored by automated SenTrax Fix-It Crabs, which were minuscule robots made to repair damaged machinery.

AndNow founder Ed Annunziata had previously worked with Appaloosa Interactive on Ecco The Dolphin when he was at Sega.