Visual Concepts
Visual Concepts | |
Founded | 1988 |
Headquarters | California, USA |
Visual Concepts was an American video game developer founded in California in 1988. They developed their first game in 1991 (NES Trog!) and later developed Lester the Unlikely for the SNES, one of the worst known titles for the console. They are also known to have developed many sports games, namely the SNES adaptations of the Madden NFL series. When Sega bought Visual Concepts for $10,000,000, they wanted the company to develop sports games for the Dreamcast. In 2005, the company was bought by Take-Two Interactive which eventually evolved into 2K Sports.
Games
Music Development
SNES
Jason Andersen and John Schappert programmed the SNES sound engine at Visual Concepts. The engine was mainly used by Brian Schmidt, but was also used by other composers as well including Matt Scott and Russell Lieblich. The name of the sound engine was SMSG (SNES Music and Sound Generator). Jason said this about the sound engine:
Audio Personnel
- Brian Luzietti
- Brian Schmidt
- Byte Size Sound
- Charles Deenen
- David Whittaker
- Jason Andersen
- Jim Sproul
- John Phillip Britt
- John Schappert
- Mark Miller
- Mark Chosak
- Matt Scott
- Mike Cihak
- Mitchell Stein
- Rob Hubbard
- Russell Lieblich