Legend Entertainment
| Legend Entertainment Corporation | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Subsidiary of Atari SA |
| founding | 1989 |
| resolution | 2003 |
| Reason for dissolution | Closure by the parent company |
| Seat | Chantilly (USA) |
| management | Bob Bates, Michael Verdu |
| Branch | Software development |
Legend Entertainment was an American computer game development studio founded by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu in 1989, based in Chantilly .
Company history
After the computer game manufacturer Infocom closed in 1989, some former employees (including Steve Meretzky ) moved to the newly founded company Legend Entertainment. In the initial phase, similar to Infocom, adventure games formed the product portfolio. At the beginning of the 1990s, the studio was still developing text adventures of an older style and, from 1993, adventure games supplemented by interactive graphics. Many of the Legend games were based on literature, for example by Piers Anthony ( Companions of Xanth ), Terry Brooks ( Shannara ), Frederik Pohl ( Gateway ) or Spider Robinson ( Callahan's Crosstime Saloon ). In 1998 Legend Entertainment was bought by GT Interactive and in 1999 it was owned by Infogrames (later Atari). Legend later developed even 3D games such as in first-person view held Wheel of Time , which on the eponymous Fantasy -Romanserie of Robert Jordan is based. Legend's last title, Unreal II: The Awakening , developed for Epic Games , was not very successful, and so the studio was closed in 2003 by the previous owner, Atari .
Games
Text adventures
- Timequest (1991)
- Gateway 1 (1992)
- Gateway 2 - Homeworld (1993)
- Eric the Unready (1993)
- Spellcasting 101 (1990)
- Spellcasting 201 (1991)
- Spellcasting 301 (1992)
Graphic adventures
- Companions of Xanth (1993)
- Death Gate (1994)
- Shannara (1995)
- Mission Critical (1995)
Other titles
- Superhero League of Hoboken (1994)
- Star Control 3 (1996)
- Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1997)
- Blackstone Chronicles (1998)
- Unreal: Return to NaPali (1999)
- The Wheel of Time (1999)
- Unreal 2: The Awakening (2003)
- Unreal 2 eXpanded MultiPlayer (2003)
Web links
- Legend Entertainment at MobyGames (English)