The park's YouTube channel just posted this throwback!
The Crystal Method music just took me way back.
This guy seems to have relatively reliable/researched data in his videos, so this may answer those questions:
Very interesting but to me if it was going to CGA why would it just have Paramount Parks branding on the animation. Almost as if Paramount was like "We'll take it" and then even CGA was not the planned destination, but the destination that somehow got out marketing wise.