Adrenalin Entertainment
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| Founded | 1978 |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
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Western Technologies, Inc. was an early pioneer in development tools for gaming systems. It was founded by Jay Smith who also owned Smith Engineering as a sole proprietorship. (Smith Engineering was Mr. Smith's private company under which he could patent his own designs, projects or inventions, such as the Microvision, one of the earliest hand-held game consoles.)
Western Technologies developed the Vectrex console system, licensed and distributed first by General Consumer Electric (GCE), and then by Milton Bradley Company after their purchase of GCE. In addition, the company developed sound applications and algorithms for system speech in games and other software.
Initially the company developed games for the Atari, Genesis and Nintendo, and later for the Game Gear, Playstation, DOS and Windows released under the Adrenalin Entertainment, Inc. division, also founded by Smith.
When Western Technologies was acquired by Wanderlust Interactive, Inc. in February 1997, Adrenalin Entertainment became a "sister" company of Wanderlust.
On May 12, 1998, Wanderlust Interactive officially changed its name to Adrenalin Interactive, Inc. Since the logo "Adrenalin Entertainment" was well known, the new company continued to use it on game packaging and covers until about June 2000.
Music Development
GEN
The company used GEMS.
NES
For Videomation, Western Technologies created a unique sound engine. The music composers Kathryn Francavilla and Dick Conroy may have either entered the music in 6502 assembly or a utility to convert MIDI files into their sound driver.
SNES
The company used Chip Level Designs' audio driver.
Audio Personnel
- Fletcher Beasley
- Peter Kerekes
- Abby Schneider
- Greg Shaw
- Mark Cooksey
- Bruce Hanifan
- Eric Iwasaki
- Brian Coburn
- Chris Granger
- John Baker
- Kathryn Francavilla
- Mark Guidas
- Raymond Frericks Jr.
- Jeff Fort
- Alan Maynard
- Dick Conroy
