Lion Entertainment
Lion Entertainment, Inc. was a development company in Austin, Texas, best known for porting PC games such as Doom II and Quake to the Macintosh, though it also developed two original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons games for the 3DO. It was incorporated on June 8, 1993, and dissolved on November 16, 1999. The president was Douglas Grounds, previously a programmer with New World Computing and SSI.
Lion shut its doors in August 1997. [1] Afterwards, Grounds and others started up 3DO Austin. [2] Programmers Phil Sulak and Ken Cobb founded Westlake Interactive [3], which continued development of the Mac versions of Shadow Warrior and Unreal. In 1999, Grounds formed another Mac development company called Entuitive! Software Inc. [4]
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3DO
- DeathKeep (US Publisher: SSI)
- Slayer / Lost Dungeon (US/EU Publisher: SSI; JP Publisher: T&E Soft)
Macintosh
- Deadlock: Planetary Conquest (US/EU Publisher: MacSoft)
- Doom II (US Publisher: GT Interactive; JP Publisher: Imagineer)
- Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition (US Publisher: MacSoft)
- Heroes of Might and Magic (US Publisher: New World Computing)
- Mario Teaches Typing (CD-ROM version) (US Publisher: MacPlay)
- Quake (US Publisher: MacSoft)
- Super Wing Commander (US Publisher: Origin)
- The Ultimate Doom (US Publisher: GT Interactive)
- Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (US/EU Publisher: Origin)
- Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (US Publisher: Origin)
PlayStation
- Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (US/EU Publisher: Origin)
Windows
- DeathKeep (US Publisher: SSI)
