Spidersoft
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| Founded | 1984 |
| Headquarters | England |
| Other Names | Hewson Consultants 21st Century Entertainment Tarantula Studios Rockstar Lincoln |
Spidersoft was a British game developer that usually produced movie-based video games. It was founded in 1984 as Hewson Consultants by Andrew Hewson. Hewson initially done computer games, and it was renamed in 1991 as 21st Century Entertainment. On May 5, 1992, Spidersoft was established by two programmers with backing from Hewson's 21st Century, in which both Spidersoft and the parent company merged in 1995, before 21st Century went defunct in 1998. Spidersoft served as assistant programmer and graphics on Xenon 2: Megablast (GB) and programmed Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (GB) for Mindscape, before developing its own original content. The company was involved in developing Joe and Mac (GB). It was sold to Take-Two Interactive in 1998. When developing games, most of them has no credits, probably because of staff poaching.
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Games
Music Development
NES
The only game Spidersoft developed is Cliffhanger. Mark Cooksey wrote MIDI files in Notator that was converted to his sound driver.
GB
On most of games, Martin Walker converted his music files to his own sound driver.
On Lemmings 2: The Tribes and unreleased Learn and Play: Blackjack & Solitaire, Mark Cooksey composed music using Notator and converted to sound driver.
After Spidersoft was sold to Take-Two Interactive, Anthony Paton developed his own sound driver, which used on later Game Boy titles.
GG
On Hook, audio was outsourced to Krisalis Software. Matt Furniss converted his music files to Shaun Hollingworth's sound driver.
On Cliffhanger, David Lowe used unique sound driver, which developed by him or by one of in-house programmers. Same sound driver Lowe used in NBA Jam and both PGA Your Golf games.
Last games uses sound drivers by Mark Cooksey and Martin Walker.
AMI
On Cliffhanger, Graham Grey composed music using ProTracker and converted his MOD files to Prorunner 2.0 player.
Pinball Mania uses Martin Walker's sound driver.
GEN
Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot uses Mark Cooksey's sound driver.
SNES
Pinball Fantasies and Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot uses Mark Cooksey's sound driver.
Audio Personnel
- Anthony Paton
- David Lowe
- Fletcher Beasley
- Graham Grey
- Mark Cooksey
- Martin Walker
- Matt Furniss
- Simon Bostock
