Park Place Productions
Park Place Productions | |
Founded | 1989 |
Headquarters | San Diego, California, USA |
Park Place Productions was an American game developer founded by Troy Lyndon, Michael Knox, and Stephen Quinn. The company was renowned for their sports titles. One of their best games was John Madden Football on the Sega Genesis which was reported as "the most successful sports game of all time." They are also known for developing Muhammad Ali's Heavyweight Boxing on the Sega Genesis and Monday Night Football for MS-DOS. They also developed one NES game called Roundball 2-on-2 Challenge.
Troy Lyndon continues to this day as a game developer and has founded his own Christian game developed called Left Behind Games. Unfortunately, Michael Knox on September 15, 2009, age 48, died in Kaneohe, Hawaii from colon cancer.
Games
Music Development
NES
Russell Lieblich created a sound driver. The only game Park Place developed was Roundball 2-on-2 Challenge (NES). Michelle Sorger wrote MIDI files and had them converted to the sound engine, possibly by hand.
GEN
The company used GEMS.
SNES
The company used an audio driver from Chip Level Designs, while titles that they developed for Electronic Arts used EA's variant of the Kankichi-kun sound driver, possibly by Rob Hubbard.
Audio Personnel
- AFB Sound Technology
- Chip Level Designs
- Jeff Tveraas
- Jon McMack
- Michelle Simon
- Rob Hubbard (Contracted from Electronic Arts.)
- Russell Lieblich
- Tommy Tallarico
- Tristan Des Pres