Toys For Bob

Toys For Bob

Infobox_Company
company_name = Toys For Bob
company_
company_type = Subsidiary of Activision
foundation = 1989
location = Novato, California
key_people = Paul Reiche III founder and CEO
Fred Ford Technical Director
num_employees = 45
revenue = unknown
industry = Video games
homepage = http://www.toysforbob.com/
products = "Star Control",
"Star Control II",
"The Horde",
"Pandemonium",
"The Unholy War",
"Little Witching Mischiefs",
"102 Dalmatians",
"Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure",
"Madagascar",
"Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam"

Toys For Bob is a small video game developer founded in 1989 by Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford. They are most known for creating "Star Control" and its sequel "", but they were not involved in the development of "Star Control 3". After this they went on to create a number of games for Crystal Dynamics, including the hectic combination of action and strategy, "The Horde", "Pandemonium" and "The Unholy War" (as well as "Little Witching Mischiefs" in Japan for Bandai).

This relationship with Crystal Dynamics ended in 2002. The company was bought by Activision on May 3 2005, and is now a wholly owned subsidiary. The management team and employees have all signed long-term contracts with Activision, which is owned by Vivendi, and Toys For Bob will remain in place in Novato, California.cite web | url = http://www.lockergnome.com/game/2005/05/03/activision-acquires-game-developer-toys-for-bob/ | title = Activision purchases Toys for Bob | publisher = Locker Gnome | accessdate = 2007-12-29 | date = 2005-04-03] They recently completed working on "Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam" for Nintendo's Wii console and revealed that they are currently working on a sequel to one of the games they had made before, excepting Star Control and Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure. [See [http://uqm.stack.nl/files/chat/tfbchat-20070613-clean this IRC chatlog] , search for "we're working".]

The name Toys for Bob has no particular meaning; it was chosen just because the founders liked it. [See [http://starcontrol.classicgaming.gamespy.com/history/fford3.shtml this log] of Fred Ford's mails to fans.]

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.toysforbob.com/ Toys For Bob official website]
* [http://www.mobygames.com/company/toys-for-bob/ Toys For Bob game overview] from MobyGames


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