- Legend Entertainment
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intl =Legend Entertainment was an American developer of
computer game s. The company was founded in 1989 byBob Bates andMike Verdu after the end ofInfocom . Their goal was to designinteractive fiction in the Infocom tradition. Their first products were all illustrated text adventures, some of them designed by Infocom veteranSteve Meretzky . Starting in 1993, they switched to a new development system for graphic-only adventures. Several of theiradventure game s were based on book licenses, includingFrederik Pohl 's "Gateway",Terry Brooks ' "Shannara ",Spider Robinson 's "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon",Piers Anthony 's "Xanth ", andMargaret Weis andTracy Hickman 's "The Death Gate Cycle ".The company was acquired by
GT Interactive in 1998 and began changing their focus to action games. They developed afirst-person shooter based onRobert Jordan 's "The Wheel of Time " and finished the development of the second part in theUnreal series in 2002. Late in 2003, they released a free expansion for , known as XMP ("eXpanded MultiPlayer ").In 1999,
GT Interactive was purchased outright byInfogrames , who later acquired and rebranded themselves asAtari .On Friday,
January 16 ,2004 , Legend Entertainment was shut down. A briefpress release fromAtari cites that it was "purely a business decision", and that "Legend had recently completed its only current project and had no new projects in the pipeline". Sources close to the company state that Legend was in fact working on a new project, though it has not been officially confirmed.Fan reaction toAtari 's decision has been rather sour, prompting the creation of apetition demanding thatAtari continue to support Legend's games, among other things. It is unknown what further action, if any,Atari plans to take in this matter.Games
Interactive fiction
* "" (1990)
* "" (1991)
* "Timequest " (1991)
* "Gateway" (1992)
* "" (1992)
* "Eric the Unready " (1993)
* "Gateway 2 - Homeworld" (1993)Graphic adventures
* "
Companions of Xanth " (1993)
* "Death Gate " (1994)
* "Superhero League of Hoboken " (1994)
* "Mission Critical (game) " (1995)
* "Shannara" (1995)
* "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon " (1997)
* "John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles " (1998)Miscellanea
* "
Star Control 3 " (1996)
* "" (1999)
* "Wheel of Time" (1999)
* "" (2003)
* "" (2003)External links
* [http://waitingforgo.com/legend/ The Unofficial Legend Text Adventure Page]
* [http://korseby.net/spiele/legend/ Korseby Online] (has some reviews of Legend games)
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