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Glyn Anderson

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Glyn Anderson
Known forVideo games

Glyn Anderson has designed, programmed, and managed the production of video games starting with the Intellivision console. A musician as well as a programmer, he wrote the cross-platform sound and music driver used on many Activision games between 1989 and 1992, including Ghostbusters II[1] and Lexi-Cross.[2][3]

Career

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Anderson started making games in 1980 as a programmer at APh Technological Consulting, the company that created the Intellivision for Mattel. He then worked at Activision creating Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64 versions of Megamania,[4] Ghostbusters, and Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers.

Anderson's current[when?] company, Game Production Services, creates Location-based Immersive Virtual Experience (LIVE) training simulations, such as the Infantry Immersive Trainer and Joint Fires & Effects Trainer System (JFETS),[5] primarily for the U.S. military.

Games

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Year Title Company
2003 Need for Speed Electronic Arts
Terminator 3 Infogrames
2002 Stuntman
Magi-Nation Interactive Imagination
1999 Redline Accolade
Slave Zero
Test Drive: Off-Road 3 Infogrames
1998 Mission Impossible
Deadlock II: Shrine Wars Accolade
1997 Mona & Moki 1: Drive Me Wild! Lightspan
Mona & Moki 2: Drive Me Wilder!
Secret of Googol 5: Googolfest - Party Isle / Toy Isle
Timeless Math 4: Lunar Base
1995 X-Perts Sega
Golden Nugget Virgin Interactive
1994 Mutant League Hockey Electronic Arts
Pirates of the Caribbean Disney Interactive
1992 Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2:
Gas Pump Girls Meet the Pulsating Inconvenience from Planet X!
Activision
The Manhole: New and Enhanced
1991 Lexi-Cross Interplay
Trump Castle II Capstone
1990 Circuit's Edge Infocom
F-14 Tomcat Activision
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye
1989 BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Revenge Infocom
Ghostbusters II Activision
The Manhole: New and Enhanced
Rampage
Stealth ATF
1986 Aliens: The Computer Game
Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers
1985 Future Ball (complete but unpublished)
1984 Ghostbusters
Web Dimension[citation needed]
1983 Megamania
1982 Land Battle APh
Adventures of Tron

References

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  1. ^ YouTube Ghostbusters Music
  2. ^ Lexi-Cross credits at MobyGames
  3. ^ Anderson Music-related credits at Mirsoft
  4. ^ Megamania Manual[www.atarihq.com/5200/manuals/megamani.html]
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2009-10-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), pp10-11 "Joint Fires Effects Training System: Realistic All-Year Training for Today’s Military at a Fraction of the Cost, Challenges" Diamond Cutter, Vol. 1, Issue 6, March 2008; U.S. Army 75th Fires Brigade, Ft. Sill, OK.
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