- Lobotomy Software
Lobotomy Software was an American video game company, best known for the game "
PowerSlave " ("Exhumed" in the Europe) as well as the successfulSega Saturn ports of "Duke Nukem 3D " and "Quake ".The company is no longer active but their few projects remain favourites among Sega Saturn owners.Or|date=December 2007
History
Lobotomy Software was founded in 1993 when a group of friends working at
Nintendo of America left to form their own company. They originally worked out of Co-Founder, Paul Lange's apartment but soon set up an office in Redmond, Seattle. Here they began working on various demos, one of which became thefirst-person shooter PC game, "PowerSlave"."PowerSlave" was similar to "Doom" though it featured an Egyptian theme and ran on
3D Realms Build Engine , the same engine that ran the PC version of "Duke Nukem 3D "."PowerSlave" received enough success to help Lobotomy secure a contract to port the game over to the Sega Saturn and
Sony Playstation .Lobotomy originally wanted to port "PowerSlave" over with no changes but the weaker hardware of the Saturn and Playstation compared to the PC made this impossible. Instead, Lobotomy decided to recreate the game from scratch, complete with new level designs and a different engine, named
Slave Driver .The console versions of "PowerSlave" were a success, especially on the Saturn, due to the small amount of other FPS titles available at the time.
A little while after "PowerSlave" was released,
Sega secured the rights fromGT Interactive to publish "Quake" and "Duke Nukem 3D". Sega originally handed the projects to two other developers but they were unhappy with their work. Once the media buzz around "PowerSlave" started to heat up, Sega saw potential in Lobotomy and let them work on the two games.Both "Duke Nukem 3D" and "Quake" were well received and helped Lobotomy build a bigger fan base.
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