Glyn Anderson
{{Short description|American video game designer}}
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Glyn Anderson has designed, programmed, and managed the production of video games starting with the Intellivision console. A musician as well as a programmer, he wrote the cross-platform sound and music driver used on many Activision games between 1989 and 1992, including Ghostbusters II[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGWynJYhx1k YouTube Ghostbusters Music] and Lexi-Cross.[http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/lexi-cross/credits Lexi-Cross credits at MobyGames][http://www.mirsoft.info/gmb/musician_info.php?id_ele=MzU5MQ== Anderson Music-related credits at Mirsoft]
Career
Anderson started making games in 1980 as a programmer at APh Technological Consulting, the company that created the Intellivision for Mattel. He then worked at Activision creating Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64 versions of Megamania,Megamania Manual[www.atarihq.com/5200/manuals/megamani.html] Ghostbusters, and Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers.
Anderson's current{{When|date=March 2021}} company, Game Production Services, creates Location-based Immersive Virtual Experience (LIVE) training simulations, such as the Infantry Immersive Trainer and Joint Fires & Effects Trainer System (JFETS),{{cite web |url=http://www.1id.army.mil/Documents/75thFiresDocuments/080502163833.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-10-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722055339/http://www.1id.army.mil/Documents/75thFiresDocuments/080502163833.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-22 }}, pp10-11 "Joint Fires Effects Training System: Realistic All-Year Training for Today’s Military at a Fraction of the Cost, Challenges" Diamond Cutter, Vol. 1, Issue 6, March 2008; U.S. Army 75th Fires Brigade, Ft. Sill, OK. primarily for the U.S. military.
Games
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Company |
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| rowspan="2" |2003 |
| Terminator 3
| rowspan="2" |Infogrames |
| rowspan="2" | 2002
|Stuntman |
| Magi-Nation
|Interactive Imagination |
| rowspan="3" | 1999
| Redline | rowspan="2" | Accolade |
| Slave Zero |
| Test Drive: Off-Road 3
| rowspan="2" |Infogrames |
| rowspan="2" |1998 |
| Deadlock II: Shrine Wars |
| rowspan="4" |1997
|Mona & Moki 1: Drive Me Wild! | rowspan="4" |Lightspan |
| Mona & Moki 2: Drive Me Wilder! |
| Secret of Googol 5: Googolfest - Party Isle / Toy Isle |
| Timeless Math 4: Lunar Base |
| rowspan="2" |1995
|Sega |
| Golden Nugget |
| rowspan="2" |1994 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean |
| rowspan="2" |1992
|Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2: | rowspan="2" |Activision |
| The Manhole: New and Enhanced |
| rowspan="2" |1991
|Interplay |
| Trump Castle II |
| rowspan="3" |1990 |
| F-14 Tomcat
| rowspan="2" |Activision |
| Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye |
| rowspan="5" |1989 |
| Ghostbusters II
| rowspan="10" |Activision |
| The Manhole: New and Enhanced |
| Rampage |
| Stealth ATF |
| rowspan="2" |1986 |
| Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers |
| 1985
|Future Ball (complete but unpublished) |
| rowspan="2" |1984 |
| Web Dimension{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}} |
| 1983 |
| rowspan="2" |1982
|Land Battle | rowspan="2" |APh |
| Adventures of Tron |
References
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External links
- [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,704/ Anderson's profile on MobyGames]
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Category:American video game designers