Eastridge Technology

Eastridge Technology is a computer software development firm founded by Nick Eastridge in 1985. It is located in Princeton, New Jersey. [1]

Research Methods: Actual mentions, code comparisons, interviews, shared staff

Amiga

• Paperboy 2 (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape)
• Wing Commander (unreleased version?)

Eastridge was converting the game to Amiga at one point, according to The One magazine (page 36). [2] The final game credits British programmer Nick Pelling with the conversion.

DOS

• Dark Castle (US Publisher: Three-Sixty Pacific; EU Publisher: Mirrorsoft)
• Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun (US Publisher: Mindscape) [3]
• Paperboy 2 (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape)

Famicom/NES

• Battleship (sound programming?) (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape)
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers (sound programming?) (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape)
• Conan (US Publisher: Mindscape)

Graphics: Gray Matter?

• Days of Thunder (unreleased version) (sound programming?) (US Publisher: Mindscape)
• Dirty Harry (sound programming?) (US Publisher: Mindscape)
• Gauntlet II (US Publisher: Mindscape)
• Infiltrator (US Publisher: Mindscape)

Game design, graphics: Gray Matter

• The Last Starfighter (US Publisher: Mindscape)
• Mad Max (US Publisher: Mindscape)

Game design, graphics: Gray Matter[4]

• M.U.L.E. (US Publisher: Mindscape)
• Orb 3-D (sound programming?) (US Publisher: The Software Toolworks)
• Paperboy (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape; JP Publisher: Altron)
• Paperboy 2 (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape)

Graphics: Gray Matter?

• WWF: King of the Ring (US Publisher: LJN)

Graphics: Gray Matter

Game Boy

• Gauntlet II (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape)
• Miner 2049er (US Publisher: Mindscape)
• Paperboy (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape)
• Paperboy 2 (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape)

Graphics: Gray Matter?

• Pit-Fighter (US/EU Publisher: THQ)
• The Ren & Stimpy Show: Veediots (US/EU Publisher: THQ)

Graphics?: Gray Matter [5]; ?: Panoramic Software

• Super Battletank (some programming?) (US/EU Publisher: Absolute Entertainment)

[Some?] Programming: Panoramic Software

• WWF King of the Ring (programming) (US/EU Publisher: LJN; JP Publisher: Acclaim)

Graphics: Gray Matter; ?: Panoramic Software

Game Boy Color

• Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge (sound driver?) (US Publisher: Hasbro Interactive)

Developer: Morning Star Multimedia; Some Graphics?: Game Titan

• Pong: The Next Level / Pong (programming) (US/EU Publisher: Hasbro Interactive)

Developer: Morning Star Multimedia

SNES

The following games use Eastridge's sound driver:

• The Chessmaster (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape JP Publisher: Altron)
• The Great Waldo Search (sound programming?) (US Publisher: THQ)
• The Incredible Crash Dummies / The Incredible Crash Dummies: Slick Bouya no Daichousen (sound programming?) (US/EU Publisher: LJN; JP Publisher: Acclaim)
• James Bond Jr. (sound programming?) (US/EU Publisher: THQ)
• Miracle Piano Teaching System (sound programming?) (US/EU Publisher: The Software Toolworks)
• Paperboy 2 (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape)
• Pit-Fighter (US/EU Publisher: THQ)
• The Ren & Stimpy Show: Veediots (sound programming?) (US/EU Publisher: THQ)
• Relief Pitcher (US Publisher: Left Field Entertainment)
• Steel Talons (sound programming?) (US/EU Publisher: Left Field Entertainment)
• The Terminator (sound programming?) (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape)
• Wayne's World (sound programming?) (US/EU Publisher: Mindscape)

Links

• Official website