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Los Osos/San Luis Obispo, California, United States-based contract developer started by Eric Yiskis and Neil Balthaser as Visions Unlimited.  
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Los Osos [http://groups.google.com/group/misc.jobs.contract/browse_thread/thread/5f928e4dd012856/f730e2d55ea5d91b]/San Luis Obispo, California, United States-based contract developer started on July 2, 1992 [http://www.secinfo.com/dUgwf.9fp.htm#akk] by Eric Yiskis and Neil [http://groups.google.com/group/misc.jobs.contract/browse_thread/thread/5f928e4dd012856/f730e2d55ea5d91b] Balthaser [http://www.balthaser.com/exp/f_content/newMedia.pdf] as Visions Unlimited. Creative Programming and Technology Ventures (CPTV) acquired the company in 1994. [http://www.secinfo.com/dUgwf.9fp.htm#akk] It was shut down in 1996. [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,130092/]
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A number of Alexandria employees ended up at Oddworld Inhabitants, which was also at one time a subsidiary of CPTV. [http://www.secinfo.com/dUgwf.9fp.htm#akk]
  
 
'''[[About:Research Methods|Research Methods]]:''' Actual mentions, interviews (see below), shared credits
 
'''[[About:Research Methods|Research Methods]]:''' Actual mentions, interviews (see below), shared credits

Revision as of 13:33, 27 September 2009

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Los Osos [1]/San Luis Obispo, California, United States-based contract developer started on July 2, 1992 [2] by Eric Yiskis and Neil [3] Balthaser [4] as Visions Unlimited. Creative Programming and Technology Ventures (CPTV) acquired the company in 1994. [5] It was shut down in 1996. [6]

A number of Alexandria employees ended up at Oddworld Inhabitants, which was also at one time a subsidiary of CPTV. [7]

Research Methods: Actual mentions, interviews (see below), shared credits

Related Interviews: Kevin Seghetti

3DO

  • DynoBlaze (unreleased) (Virgin)
  • Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster (unreleased) (Interplay)

Genesis/Mega Drive

  • Demolition Man (US/EU/AU Publisher: Acclaim; BR Publisher: Tec Toy)
Music/Sound Effects: Orca Games
  • Head, The (unreleased)
  • Interplanetary Lizards of the Texas Plains (unreleased)
  • Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings (US/EU Publisher: U.S. Gold)
  • Road Runner (unreleased) (TecMagik)
  • Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers (US/EU Publisher: Time Warner Interactive; BR Publisher: Tec Toy)
Music/Sound Effects: Orca Games

Jaguar

  • Return Fire (unreleased)

Mega CD/Sega CD

  • Demolition Man (US Publisher: Acclaim)

PlayStation

  • Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster (unreleased) (Interplay)
  • Max Mayhem (unreleased)
Layout art
  • Myth (unreleased)

Saturn

  • Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster (EU Publisher: Interplay)

Super Famicom/Super NES

  • Demolition Man (US/EU Publisher: Acclaim)
Music/Sound: Orca Games
  • Head, The (unreleased)
  • Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings (US/EU Publisher: U.S. Gold)
Music/Sound: Orca Games