Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1998 video game) featuring the scenes on Mars were later recreated for the "War of the Worlds" live show. Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1998 video game) Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds is a real-time strategy video game developed by Rage Software Limited and released for Windows-based PCs in 1998. It is based on "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds" — which is itself based on H. G. Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds". In 1999, another game of the same name was released for the Sony PlayStation. The 1999 game reuses the 1998
The War of the Worlds (radio drama) the adaptation, with a copy of his script being made into a paperback book enjoying large printings and an album of the broadcast selling over 500,000 copies, part of the income also going to him as copyright owner." The book, "The Panic Broadcast", was first published in 1970. The best-selling album was a sound recording of the broadcast titled "Orson Welles' War of the Worlds", "released by arrangement with Manheim Fox Enterprises, Inc." The source discs for the recording are unknown. Welles told Peter Bogdanovich that it was a poor-quality recording taken off the air at the time of broadcast