SingleTrac

{{Short description|American video game developer}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}}

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| name = SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies, Inc.

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| type = Public

| founder = Mike Bartholomew
Todd Kelly
Michael Ryder

| foundation = 1994

| defunct = 2000

| location = Salt Lake City, Utah{{cite magazine |title=GT Interactive Buys Singletrac, Makes Agreements with BMG and Warner Bros. Interactive |magazine=GamePro |issue=108 |publisher=IDG |date=September 1997 |page=20 |quote=Singletrac, which is also a Nintendo 64 licensee, will keep its 70 employees at the company's headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.}}{{cite web |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/GT+Interactive+Completes+Acquisition+Of+SingleTrac,+a+Leading...-a019866235 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314100239/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/GT+Interactive+Completes+Acquisition+Of+SingleTrac%2c+a+Leading...-a019866235 |title=GT Interactive Completes Acquisition Of SingleTrac, a Leading Multi-Platform Entertainment Software Developer |website=Business Wire |archivedate=March 14, 2016 |date=October 17, 1997 |accessdate=September 4, 2021 |via=The Free Dictionary}}

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| industry = Software & programming

| products = Twisted Metal franchise
Jet Moto franchise

| parent = GT Interactive (1997–2000)

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SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies, Inc. was an American video game developer. It was founded in 1994 by Michael Ryder, Todd Kelly, and Michael Bartholomew, who were former employees of Evans & Sutherland, bringing their 3D graphics and software engineering skills into the video game industry.{{cite magazine |title=Peacetime Programmers |magazine=Electronic Gaming Monthly |issue=97 |publisher=Ziff Davis |date=August 1997 |page=72}}{{cite news |last=Daniel |first=Kim |date=November 20, 1995 |title=On the Right 'Trac' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune/138168298/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106184146/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune/138168298/ |archivedate=January 6, 2024 |access-date=7 January 2024 |newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}} Its most famous titles were the Twisted Metal and Jet Moto video game series. At its heyday, it was closely associated with Sony Computer Entertainment, with whom they produced the above two series.

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.{{cite magazine |title=At the Deadline |magazine=GamePro |issue=87 |publisher=IDG |date=December 1995 |page=206}} 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,{{cite magazine |title=In the Studio |magazine=Next Generation |issue=27 |publisher=Imagine Media |date=March 1997 |page=24}} but these plans never came to fruition. Later in 1997, SingleTrac signed on as a developer for the Nintendo 64,{{cite magazine |title=SingleTrac Joins 'Dream Team' |magazine=Electronic Gaming Monthly |issue=97 |publisher=Ziff Davis |date=August 1997 |page=20}}{{cite magazine |title=News Bits |magazine=GamePro |issue=106 |publisher=IDG |date=July 1997 |page=21}} 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.{{cite magazine |title=Tidbits... |magazine=Electronic Gaming Monthly |issue=98 |publisher=Ziff Davis |date=September 1997 |page=23}}{{cite web |first=Micheal |last=Mullen |url=http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_06/18_gti/index.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19990222115901/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_06/18_gti/index.html |title=GT Goes on a Binge |website=GameSpot |archivedate=February 22, 1999 |date=June 18, 1997 |accessdate=July 28, 2022}} It was closed down in 2000 before GT Interactive itself was bought out by Infogrames.