Lawrence Holland

Lawrence Holland

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occupation = Game Designer; president of Totally Games

Lawrence Holland is an American Game Designer, and president of Totally Games. He is most famous for the published by LucasArts.

Early life

Lawrence Holland studied Anthropology and Prehistoric Archeology, graduating Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University in 1979. He spent the following 2 years on archaeological expeditions in Africa, Europe, India and the United States before changing careers to game design.

Early Games

His first game was called "Slime" for the VIC-20. He then went on to do the music for the Commodore 64 and Apple II versions of The Bard's Talecite web
last = Bub
first = Andrew S.
title = Lawrence Holland on Secret Weapons Over Normandy
publisher = GameSpy
date = 2003-05-24
url = http://archive.gamespy.com/interviews/may03/holland/
accessdate = 2008-01-10 ] .

Other early games included:Spike's Peak, Super Zaxxon and Project Space Stationcite book
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first = Rusel
title = Star Wars: X-Wing - The Official Strategy Guide
publisher = Prima
date = 1993
isbn = 1559583754 ] .

LucasArts

He soon became an independent game developer, and achieved notability through a series of World War II flight simulators developed for LucasArts (then LucasFilm Games): Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe.

The success of his WWII flight simulators lead to him being approached to develop a series of space flight simulators in the Star Wars franchise. The resulting game was an instant classic, that led to the even more successful , a game that is widely considered one of the top ten greatest computer games ever made. Fact|date=June 2008

Recent Work

Lawrence took a break from LucasArts owned licenses in 2002 to work on a Star Trek licensed product for Activision. His next release was a return to WWII flight simulators with Secret Weapons Over Normandy in 2003. The game was not well-received and sales were disappointing. The most recent release, 2007's Alien Syndrome (2007), for the Sony PSP and the Nintendo Wii, continued this trend with even lower review scores and sales.

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