Park Place Productions
American video game developer
Park Place Productions was a corporation founded in 1989 by Michael Knox, Troy Lyndon and Stephen Quinn.
History
The company's predecessor was Pacific Dataworks International (originally Lyndon & Associates before it was incorporated in May 1987, other names considered include Discovery Software, which was rejected due to the similarity of the game publisher Discovery Software International, and Grey Matter), a company co-founded by Troy Lyndon and Christopher Riggs in 1987 to develop work for Capcom, after Lyndon leaving Gamestar. Michael Knox had also worked for Pacific Dataworks International as well.
The company broke up in 1989, as Lyndon and Knox formed Park Place Productions (initially operating with the Pacific Dataworks name before settling on Park Place) and Riggs formed Riggs International (later Radiance Software) to develop its first game for Capcom, Pocket Rockets, and went on to work for TurboGrafx-16 and other platforms, such as the TurboGrafx-16 versions of Hyper Dyne Side Arms, TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck, the multiplatform title The Great Waldo Search, the NES game Rollerblade Racer and the SNES version of Andre Agassi Tennis, and evolved into Enigma Interactive in 1993, which was later sold to Beachport Entertainment Group, to develop the Sega Genesis game Popeye in High Seas High-Jinks. James Haldy, who worked for Pacific Dataworks, and subsequently worked for Park Place, later left to start his own company to produce a Jonny Quest game for MicroIllusions, but never materialized.
The company's first product under the name was ABC Monday Night Football for home computers in a deal with Data East, through a design deal with Season Ticket Productions, a compamy founded by Scott Orr of Gamestar.
In 1990, contracted by Electronic Arts, the company produced John Madden Football for the Genesis video game console, described as "the most successful sports game of all time." Other popular titles that the company developed include Monday Night Football (DOS, 1989), and Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Boxing (Genesis, 1992). In 1991, the company made a major setback when Jim Simmons, who was with Pacific Dataworks and Park Place, left the company for Electronic Arts under the development company Digital Arts. The company later acquired Knight Technologies. Park Place Productions went on to become the largest independent developer of computer games in 1993 with 130 developers making 45 games for 14 video game publishing companies.
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