SingleTrac

SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies, Inc.
Company typePublic
IndustrySoftware & programming
Founded1994
FounderMike Bartholomew, Todd Kelly, Michael Ryder
Defunct2000
HeadquartersSalt Lake City, Utah[1][2]
ProductsTwisted Metal franchise
Jet Moto franchise
ParentInfogrames, 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.

  1. ^ a b "GT Interactive Buys Singletrac, Makes Agreements with BMG and Warner Bros. Interactive". GamePro. No. 108. IDG. September 1997. p. 20. Singletrac, which is also a Nintendo 64 licensee, will keep its 70 employees at the company's headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.
  2. ^ "GT Interactive Completes Acquisition Of SingleTrac, a Leading Multi-Platform Entertainment Software Developer". Business Wire. October 17, 1997. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved September 4, 2021 – via The Free Dictionary.
  3. ^ "Peacetime Programmers". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 97. Ziff Davis. August 1997. p. 72.
  4. ^ Daniel, Kim (November 20, 1995). "On the Right 'Trac'". The Salt Lake Tribune. p. 13. Archived from the original on January 6, 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "At the Deadline". GamePro. No. 87. IDG. December 1995. p. 206.
  6. ^ "In the Studio". Next Generation. No. 27. Imagine Media. March 1997. p. 24.
  7. ^ "SingleTrac Joins 'Dream Team'". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 97. Ziff Davis. August 1997. p. 20.
  8. ^ "News Bits". GamePro. No. 106. IDG. July 1997. p. 21.
  9. ^ "Tidbits...". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 98. Ziff Davis. September 1997. p. 23.
  10. ^ Mullen, Micheal (June 18, 1997). "GT Goes on a Binge". GameSpot. Archived from the original on February 22, 1999. Retrieved July 28, 2022.