Troy A. Lyndon (born November 29, 1964, in

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) is an entrepreneur, game developer, and business coach.

Early life

Troy Lyndon is the son of Jacquie Edelen, a retired HR professional and David Lyndon, a former Marine, retired Aegis Program Director and Sea-sparrow Program Director. Adopted by David, Troy was 6 years old.

Career

At age 13, Troy Lyndon followed in his father's engineering footsteps by starting to develop, ''Space Voyager'', ''Great Wave'' and ''Space Quest'', a published video game series for the

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. Encouraged by his childhood friend, David Jennings, he later created or worked on games for the

, Commodore 64,

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and Android platforms. With co-developers Scott Maxwell and Yves Lempereur, he co-authored the Atari to Commodore 64 game adaptations of

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, Snokie, and Flak. Lyndon completed the Commodore 64 version of Lost Tomb for

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and created the Commodore 64 version of

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from the ground up, both consumer adaptations of coin-op arcade games. Lyndon began his career as a simulated sprite driver developer for the

version of Star League Baseball, which was later acquired by

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. Even after the

acquisition,

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programming continued, and Lyndon went on to develop Star Rank Boxing; Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing, and GBA Championship Basketball: Two-on-Two. He also worked on the video game adaptation of

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. Lyndon secured a 15-title contract with

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to provide a variety of coin-op games to the Commodore 64 and new IBM PC platforms. Street Fighter, Sarge, Speed Rumbler, Hat Trick,

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, and

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were among the games released. With Christopher Riggs, Lyndon co-founded Pacific Dataworks International. Lyndon began working on original games with Michael Knox, a co-developer. They secured a deal with DataEast to create PC versions of ABC's Monday Night Football and Dream Team Basketball. While President of Park Place Productions, one of Lyndon's most notable achievements was as the lead designer/developer of the world's first 3D version of the award-winning video game, John Madden Football. Since that time, Electronic Arts has continued to publish sequel and derivative versions of John Madden Football video games, which have generated $4 billion over more than 25 years.

Controversy

On September 25, 2013, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced that they entered into a regulatory, non-criminal civil lawsuit against Lyndon for violating one or more SEC Rules & Regulations. The parties' entered into a no-admit, no-deny settlement. Thereafter, Lyndon provided the public with a Quickbooks Enterprise accounting file, representing 10 years of Left Behind Games' "audited" financials to support his opposition. On January 27, 2020, Lyndon filed a lawsuit based upon his Federal Tort Claim in Troy Alan Lyndon v. USA, Securities & Exchange Commission, Luccee Kirka, Carol Shau and Karen Matteson. On September 25, 2020, Chief Judge J. Michael Seabright determined that the government and its employees could not be sued for the numerous claims alleged by Lyndon, due to the doctrine of sovereign immunity. On November 10, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Seabright's order, wherein the doctrine of sovereign immunity protects the government and its employees from claims of wrongdoing. The SEC has not and has never denied Lyndon's allegations.

Awards

Lyndon and Knox were recognized when awarded '' Inc.'' magazine "Entrepreneur of the Year" award by

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and

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References

Sources

Forbes Magazine Profile

Lyndon's rap sheet at MobyGames

Response to LEFT BEHIND Controversy

Supporter of Eastern European Christian Charity

Game Daily Interview

Focus on the Family review of Eternal Forces

Speaking at Redchip Conference

BBC on Christian Games

Lyndon on CBN

Interactive Advertising

Lyndon Radio Interview by Frank Pastore

Lyndon on the Mancow Radio Show, May 2, 2008

Mr. Do!

Lyndon on CNBC
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