Beyond Games was an American
video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large business with em ...
. It was founded in 1992 by Kris Johnson.
The first release from the company was
BattleWheels for the
Atari Lynx
The Atari Lynx is a Fourth generation of video game consoles, fourth-generation handheld game console, hand-held game console released by Atari Corporation in September 1989 in North America and 1990 in Europe and Japan. It was the first handhe ...
, winner of the 1993 Consumer Electronics Show Innovations Award. Their follow-up, ''CyberVirus'' was planned for release the following year, but abandoned due to sagging sales of the platform. Assets and code were sold to Songbird Productions, who completed and published the game in 2002.
Before they went under, they were working on a game titled Doomsday Rescue. In 2003, many of their employees, including Kris Johnson, would go on to form
Smart Bomb Interactive (now known as WildWorks), where they continue to make games.
Games
References
External links
Beyond Games - Homepage (archived)*
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GameSpot
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Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game companies established in 1992
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