The Leland Corporation was a manufacturer of several

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s in the 1980s and early 1990s. The company was formed when

Tradewest Tradewest was an American video game company based in Corsicana, Texas that produced numerous games in the 1980s and early 1990s. The company was the publisher of the '' Battletoads'' and '' Double Dragon'' series in North America and the PAL regi ...

purchased the ailing Cinematronics in 1987. Notable among these were Quarterback (1987) and John Elway's Quarterback (1989), '' Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp'' (1991), and ''

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'', which spawned an expansion and two sequels at Leland's successor company Midway Games (''

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'' and '' Offroad Thunder''). John Rowe, (co-founder and President of Tradewest) became the President of the new Leland Corporation and guided the reorganization and technology evolution which led to a number of popular video games which were positioned to transition into the new market of home systems including the

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and Sega Genesis. During the early 1990s, they developed home console titles under the brand name Leland Interactive Media. Leland was itself purchased in 1994 by

WMS Industries WMS Industries, Inc. was an American electronic gaming and amusement manufacturer in Enterprise, Nevada. It was merged into Scientific Games in 2016. WMS's predecessor was the Williams Manufacturing Company, founded in 1943 by Harry E. Willia ...

. At this point the Leland and Tradewest brands were phased out but much of the staff and all of the facilities continued to be used by WMS and later Midway Games, becoming Midway Games San Diego, which later became THQ San Diego. John Rowe became the vice-chairman and director of product development for the new company.

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Leland Corporation profile
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