Company type | Public |
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Industry | Software & programming |
Founded | 1994 |
Founder | Mike Bartholomew, Todd Kelly, Michael Ryder |
Defunct | 2000 |
Headquarters | Salt Lake City, Utah[1][2] |
Products | Twisted Metal franchise Jet Moto franchise |
Parent | Infogrames, Inc. (1997-2000) |
SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies, Inc. was an American video game developer, mostly for the PlayStation platform. The management team and much of the original development team came from Evans & Sutherland, bringing their 3D graphics and software engineering skills into the video game industry.[3] Its most famous titles were the Twisted Metal and Jet Moto video game series.
SingleTrac was founded in 1994 by Michael Ryder (the president), Todd Kelly, and Michael Bartholomew.[4]
The company's first two games, WarHawk and Twisted Metal, were major critical and commercial successes, leading publisher Sony Computer Entertainment to contract two further games from SingleTrac.[5] SingleTrac had ambitions of becoming a video game publisher as well as developer. In early 1997, the company signed a deal with Microsoft to enable them to publish PC games,[6] but these plans never came to fruition. Later in 1997, SingleTrac signed on as a developer for the Nintendo 64,[7][8] but they ultimately never produced any Nintendo 64 games. After producing the two contracted games for Sony Computer Entertainment, SingleTrac was bought by the video game publisher GT Interactive,[1][9][10] which was then bought by the French company Infogrames.
The SingleTrac studio was closed down in 2000.
Singletrac, which is also a Nintendo 64 licensee, will keep its 70 employees at the company's headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.