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{{Template: Infobox Composer
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{{Infobox Composer
| Name        = Jeroen Tel
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| Name        = Jeroen Godfried Tel
| Picture    = Jeroen Tel - 01.jpg
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| Picture    = Jeroen Tel - 01.jpg
| Born        = May 19, 1972 (Age 48)
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| Born        = 1972-05-19
| BirthPlace  = Netherlands
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| BirthPlace  = Eindhoven, Netherlands
| Nationality = Dutch
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| Nationality = Dutch
| Flag        = Netherlands
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| Flag        = Netherlands
| Alias01     = Maniacs of Noise
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| Aliases     = Maniacs of Noise, The Sonic Circle, J.Tel
| Alias02    = The Sonic Cirle
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| Website    = maniacsofnoise.nl
| Alias03    = J.Tel
 
| Website    = maniacsofnoise.nl
 
 
}}
 
}}
  
'''''Jeroen Tel''''' is a Dutch composer, and is known to be the second best video game music composer of all time (with the best composer for games being [[Rob Hubbard]]. co-founded [[Maniacs of Noise]] with [[Charles Deenen]] in 1987, a company that continues to produce audio for games to this day. Jeroen started writing music for games when he was only 16. Tel is also known to compose the soundtrack to one of the most popular C64 soundtracks ever, [[Cybernoid II: The Revenge (C64)|Cybernoid II]] for the Commodore 64. Jeroen continues to write music for his Commodore 64 to this day. Jeroen appreciates his fans' support over the years.
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'''''Jeroen Tel''''' is a Dutch composer, and is known to be one of the best Commodore 64 musicians, co-founded [[Maniacs of Noise]] with [[Charles Deenen]] in 1987, a company that continues to produce audio for games to this day. Jeroen started writing music for games when he was only 16. Jeroen continues to write music for his Commodore 64 to this day. Jeroen appreciates his fans' support over the years.
  
Jeroen says his favorite kind of music is 'good' music.
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Jeroen's video game music career began in 1987 when he worked for Hewson Consultants. There, he wrote the music and sound for most of their Commodore 64 games until he left in July 1990. in January 1988, he started working for Probe Software and composing music for the NES, Sega Master System, and other home consoles. He remained there until July 1993. Then, he worked for Funcom from 1994 to 1996. In 2004, Jeroen started working for Backbone Entertainment until 2009. Tel is currently a music and sound composer for The Visionaire Group, and continues to compose music for games to this day. He even still runs Maniacs of Noise, which has grown in popularity.
  
 
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==Music Development==
==Music Composition==
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For most of the early consoles Jeroen worked on (Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, etc.), Jeroen programmed his own sound drivers in the assembly language of the respective consoles (mainly Z80 and 6502.) He would write the music in assembly utilizing hexadecimal values for note frequencies, lengths, and various effects.
===C64===
 
Jeroen wrote his own audio driver and programmed the music.
 
 
 
===NES===
 
Like his C64 music, Jeroen made his own audio driver and wrote it in hexadecimal.
 
 
 
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==Gameography==
 
==Gameography==
{{Template: Table Header
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{| class="wikitable"
| Color    = FFF0FF
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! Released
| Caption01 = Released
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! Title
| Caption02 = Title
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! Sample
| Caption03 = Sample
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|-
}}
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| Unreleased
| 1988/??/??
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| [[Technocop (NES)]]
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|
 +
|-
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| 1988-??-??
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| [[Alloyrun (C64)]]
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|
 +
|-
 +
| 1988-??-??
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| [[Aspar GP Master (C64)]]
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|
 +
|-
 +
| 1988-??-??
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| [[Battle Valley (C64)]]
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|
 +
|-
 +
| 1988-??-??
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| [[Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine (AST)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1988-??-??
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| [[Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine (C64)]]
 +
|  
 +
|-
 +
| 1988-??-??
 
| [[Cybernoid II: The Revenge (C64)]]
 
| [[Cybernoid II: The Revenge (C64)]]
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| {{Song-List|01 - Cybernoid II - C64 - Cybernoid II.ogg}}
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|-
 +
| 1988-??-??
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| [[Eliminator (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1988-??-??
 +
| [[Hawkeye (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1988-??-??
 +
| [[Savage (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1988-??-??
 +
| [[Starball (C64)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1989/??/??
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| 1989-??-??
 
| [[Cybernoid II: The Revenge (ST)]]
 
| [[Cybernoid II: The Revenge (ST)]]
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| Original Music
 +
|-
 +
| 1989-??-??
 +
| [[Gaplus (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1989-??-??
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| [[Golden Axe (SMS)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1989-??-??
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| [[Grand Prix Master (C64)]]
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|
 +
|-
 +
| 1989-??-??
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| [[Onslaught (AMI)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1989-??-??
 +
| [[Stormlord (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1989-??-??
 +
| [[Tintin on the Moon (C64)]]
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|
 +
|-
 +
| 1989-??-??
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| [[Tomcat (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1989-??-??
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| [[Turbo OutRun (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1990-??-??
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| [[Navy Moves (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1990-??-??
 +
| [[Dan Dare III: The Escape (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1990-??-??
 +
| [[Golden Axe (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1990-??-??
 +
| [[Inve$t (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1990-??-??
 +
| [[Iron Lord (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1990-??-??
 +
| [[Poseidon: Planet Eleven (C64)]]
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|
 +
|-
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| 1990-??-??
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| [[Unreal (AMI)]]
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| Composer?
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|-
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| 1991-??-??
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| [[Agony (AMI)]]
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|
 +
|-
 +
| 1991-??-??
 +
| [[Back to the Future Part III (C64)]]
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|
 +
|-
 +
| 1991-??-??
 +
| [[Mega Phoenix (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1991-??-??
 +
| [[North & South (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1991-??-??
 +
| [[OutRun Europa (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1991-??-??
 +
| [[Rubicon (C64)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1991-??-??
 +
| [[Viz (C64)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1991/??/?? (Unreleased)
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| 1992-??-??
| [[Technocop (NES)]]
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| [[Lemmings (C64)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1992/??/??
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| 1992-??-??
 
| [[RoboCop 3 (C64)]]
 
| [[RoboCop 3 (C64)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1992/08/??
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| 1992-08-??
 
| [[RoboCop 3 (NES)]]
 
| [[RoboCop 3 (NES)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1993/03/??
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| 1993-??-??
| [[Alien 3 (GB)]]
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| [[Bram Stoker's Dracula (GG)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1993-??-??
 +
| [[Bram Stoker's Dracula (SMS)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1993/03/??
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| 1993-01-??
 +
| [[Overlord (NES)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1993-03-??
 
| [[Alien 3 (NES)]]
 
| [[Alien 3 (NES)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1993/09/??
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| 1993-09-??
 +
| [[Bram Stoker's Dracula (GB)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1993-09-??
 
| [[Bram Stoker's Dracula (NES)]]
 
| [[Bram Stoker's Dracula (NES)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1994/??/??
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| 1994-??-??
 
| [[Beauty and the Beast (NES)]]
 
| [[Beauty and the Beast (NES)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 1996/28/11
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| 1996-11-??
 +
| [[NBA Hang Time (SNES)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 1996-11-28
 
| [[Winter Gold FX (SNES)]]
 
| [[Winter Gold FX (SNES)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|-
 
|-
| 2002/03/28
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| 2001-??-??
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| [[Suske en Wiske: De Tijdtemmers (GBC)]] (Suske and Wiske: The Time Tamers)
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 2002-03-28
 
| [[Rhino Rumble (GB)]]
 
| [[Rhino Rumble (GB)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 2004-09-11
 +
| [[Nicktoons Basketball (PC)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 2006-02-14
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| [[Age of Empires: The Age of Kings (NDS)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 2007-04-18
 +
| [[Gyruss (XBLA)]]
 +
|
 +
|-
 +
| 2007-05-23
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| [[Rush'n Attack (XBLA)]]
 
|  
 
|  
 
|}
 
|}
 
  
 
==Picture Gallery==
 
==Picture Gallery==
 
<gallery>
 
<gallery>
File:Jeroen Tel - 01.jpg|Unknown source.
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Jeroen Tel - 03.png|64'er 3/91.
File:Jeroen Tel - 02.jpg|Unknown source.
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Jeroen Tel - 02.jpg|1996. Unknown source.
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Jeroen Tel - 01.jpg|Unknown source.
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JeroenTel.jpg|Unknown source.
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
  
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==Links==
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* [http://www.maniacsofnoise.nl maniacsofnoise.nl] - Official.
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* [https://www.youtube.com/user/freejaytea youtube.com/user/freejaytea] - YouTube.
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* [https://www.facebook.com/jeroen.tel facebook.com/jeroen.tel] - Facebook.
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* [https://twitter.com/maniacsofnoise twitter.com/maniacsofnoise] - Twitter.
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* [https://csdb.dk/release/?id=7810 csdb.dk/release/?id=7810] - C64 Disk Interview from March 28<!--released later-->, 1990.
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* [https://csdb.dk/release/?id=95430 csdb.dk/release/?id=95430] - Interview from circa September 1990.
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* [http://www.atlantis-prophecy.org/recollection/?load=interviews&id_interview=89 atlantis-prophecy.org/recollection/?load=interviews&id_interview=89] - Interview from August 1994.
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* [https://csdb.dk/release/?id=2547 csdb.dk/release/?id=2547] - C64 Disk Interview from November 21, 1994.
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* [http://zakalwe.fi/~shd/texts/imr/c10tel.htm zakalwe.fi/~shd/texts/imr/c10tel.htm] - Interview from 1996.
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* [http://www.sidmusic.org/sid/jtel.html sidmusic.org/sid/jtel.html] - Interviews from Commodore Zone, June 1997 and 64'er 3/91 (translated from German).
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* [https://www.gamesart.de/gamesart-interview-jeroen-tel/ gamesart.de/gamesart-interview-jeroen-tel/] - Interview from July 27, 2015.
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45W1YfAtwEQ youtube.com/watch?v=45W1YfAtwEQ] - Video Interview with Rob Hubbard.
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfapRvJgOXg youtube.com/watch?v=mfapRvJgOXg] - Video Interview (In Dutch).
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdTANxS-LHg youtube.com/watch?v=AdTANxS-LHg] - Video Interview (In Dutch).
  
==Links==
 
*'''Official:''' [http://www.maniacsofnoise.nl maniacsofnoise.nl]
 
*'''YouTube:''' [http://www.youtube.com/user/freejaytea]
 
*'''Facebook:''' [https://www.facebook.com/jeroen.tel]
 
*'''Twitter:''' [https://twitter.com/maniacsofnoise]
 
  
[[Category:Composers]]
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[[Category: Composers]]
[[Category:Foley Artists]]
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[[Category: Foley Artists]]
[[Category:Sound Programmers]]
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[[Category: Sound Programmers]]

Revision as of 14:51, 29 April 2019

Jeroen Godfried Tel
Jeroen Tel - 01.jpg
Born 1972-05-19
Birth Place Eindhoven, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch   Netherlands.svg
Aliases Maniacs of Noise, The Sonic Circle, J.Tel
Website maniacsofnoise.nl

Jeroen Tel is a Dutch composer, and is known to be one of the best Commodore 64 musicians, co-founded Maniacs of Noise with Charles Deenen in 1987, a company that continues to produce audio for games to this day. Jeroen started writing music for games when he was only 16. Jeroen continues to write music for his Commodore 64 to this day. Jeroen appreciates his fans' support over the years.

Jeroen's video game music career began in 1987 when he worked for Hewson Consultants. There, he wrote the music and sound for most of their Commodore 64 games until he left in July 1990. in January 1988, he started working for Probe Software and composing music for the NES, Sega Master System, and other home consoles. He remained there until July 1993. Then, he worked for Funcom from 1994 to 1996. In 2004, Jeroen started working for Backbone Entertainment until 2009. Tel is currently a music and sound composer for The Visionaire Group, and continues to compose music for games to this day. He even still runs Maniacs of Noise, which has grown in popularity.

Music Development

For most of the early consoles Jeroen worked on (Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, etc.), Jeroen programmed his own sound drivers in the assembly language of the respective consoles (mainly Z80 and 6502.) He would write the music in assembly utilizing hexadecimal values for note frequencies, lengths, and various effects.

Gameography

Released Title Sample
Unreleased Technocop (NES)
1988-??-?? Alloyrun (C64)
1988-??-?? Aspar GP Master (C64)
1988-??-?? Battle Valley (C64)
1988-??-?? Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine (AST)
1988-??-?? Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine (C64)
1988-??-?? Cybernoid II: The Revenge (C64)
1988-??-?? Eliminator (C64)
1988-??-?? Hawkeye (C64)
1988-??-?? Savage (C64)
1988-??-?? Starball (C64)
1989-??-?? Cybernoid II: The Revenge (ST) Original Music
1989-??-?? Gaplus (C64)
1989-??-?? Golden Axe (SMS)
1989-??-?? Grand Prix Master (C64)
1989-??-?? Onslaught (AMI)
1989-??-?? Stormlord (C64)
1989-??-?? Tintin on the Moon (C64)
1989-??-?? Tomcat (C64)
1989-??-?? Turbo OutRun (C64)
1990-??-?? Navy Moves (C64)
1990-??-?? Dan Dare III: The Escape (C64)
1990-??-?? Golden Axe (C64)
1990-??-?? Inve$t (C64)
1990-??-?? Iron Lord (C64)
1990-??-?? Poseidon: Planet Eleven (C64)
1990-??-?? Unreal (AMI) Composer?
1991-??-?? Agony (AMI)
1991-??-?? Back to the Future Part III (C64)
1991-??-?? Mega Phoenix (C64)
1991-??-?? North & South (C64)
1991-??-?? OutRun Europa (C64)
1991-??-?? Rubicon (C64)
1991-??-?? Viz (C64)
1992-??-?? Lemmings (C64)
1992-??-?? RoboCop 3 (C64)
1992-08-?? RoboCop 3 (NES)
1993-??-?? Bram Stoker's Dracula (GG)
1993-??-?? Bram Stoker's Dracula (SMS)
1993-01-?? Overlord (NES)
1993-03-?? Alien 3 (NES)
1993-09-?? Bram Stoker's Dracula (GB)
1993-09-?? Bram Stoker's Dracula (NES)
1994-??-?? Beauty and the Beast (NES)
1996-11-?? NBA Hang Time (SNES)
1996-11-28 Winter Gold FX (SNES)
2001-??-?? Suske en Wiske: De Tijdtemmers (GBC) (Suske and Wiske: The Time Tamers)
2002-03-28 Rhino Rumble (GB)
2004-09-11 Nicktoons Basketball (PC)
2006-02-14 Age of Empires: The Age of Kings (NDS)
2007-04-18 Gyruss (XBLA)
2007-05-23 Rush'n Attack (XBLA)

Picture Gallery

Links