Lemon was a video game developer founded in 1994 by Søren Hannibal and Jacob Andersen, who had previously been members of a

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group of the same name. Lemon created the

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-based 3D shooter '' Amok'' for

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and PC. A

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version was underway but was ultimately cancelled. Programmer Martin Pollas joined in 1996 to work on the PC version of ''Amok''. When Lemon's publisher,

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, went bankrupt the team split up. Søren went to work for Shiny Entertainment (creating the ''

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'' games) while Jacob and Martin joined up with the remaining members of

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to form Reto-Moto ( ''Hitman'' series and '' Freedom Fighters'') in 1998. Before Lemon, Søren and Jacob created the

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game ''

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'' while working at British game developer/publisher

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