Some of my fondest memories as a gamer go back 12 years, when my friends and I would spend hours at a stretch glued to his television set, playing the most awesome game ever (back then) – Rock N’ Roll Racing, on the Super Nintendo. The game was more than just a racer, and was unlike anything I’d played back then. When I think about it now, it was one of the few titles that were way ahead of their time; you could race your ass off in the isometric view the game used, while blowing up your competition using a weapon mounted on your car, which could be upgraded as you collected cash from winning races – the game was close to perfect, and I played it day in and day out for quite a while. But as time passed by, the game reduced to not more than a fond memory.
Now many years (and games) later, we at tech2 have decided to do a weekly tribute to some of our favorite game developers, games etc so naturally the first name that came to my mind was none other than Blizzard Entertainment – a developer with a flawless record behind some of the greatest real-time strategy games of all time (yeah sue me, I’m a Blizzard fanboy). While doing some research on their history, I stumbled upon something that was quite surprising, in a good way - it turns out that Blizzard, the company that created my favorite RTS games, was the great studio behind Rock N’ Roll Racing as well! Back in 1991 a company named Silicon & Synapse was founded by 3 dudes – Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce. Under the banner of Silicon & Synapse, only two games were developed - Rock N’ Roll Racing and another title called The Lost Viking. In 1994 the company changed their name to Chaos studio, but after realizing that another studio with the same name existed, they changed their name to Blizzard Entertainment.
Tribute: Blizzard Entertainment
By: Nikhil Singh
| Mar 03, 2007
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