Totally Games was a
video game developer located in
Marin County, California. Their titles included the ''X-wing'' series of games based on the
Star Wars universe, a series of PC-based World War II flight combat simulations (''Battlehawks 1942'', ''Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain'', and ''Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe'') and ''
Bridge Commander
''Star Trek: Bridge Commander'' is a space combat simulation video game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Totally Games and published by Activision in 2002, based in the Star Trek universe.
The plot revolves around a newly promoted captain w ...
'' based on the
Star Trek universe. They created ''Secret Weapons over Normandy'' in 2003 for the PS2, Xbox and PC. They broadened their scope to create products for the PSP and the Wii (''Alien Syndrome'') and an interconnected theme park/internet experience, ''Buzz Lightyear Astroblasters'', commemorating the 50th anniversary of Disneyland. The company was originally founded in 1985 as a sole proprietorship, incorporated in 1993 as Peregrine Software and soon thereafter renamed Totally Games by
Lawrence Holland, a
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...
graduate.
History
Lawrence Holland began developing games in 1983, beginning with Spike's Peak, then Super Zaxxon and Project Space Station, with publisher HESWare. He went independent in 1985 and contracted with Lucasfilm Games to do the Apple II and Commodore 64 versions of naval simulations PHM Pegasus and its sequel, Strike Fleet for publication by Electronic Arts. From this point, Holland proposed the design for Battlehawks 1942 and hired his own team while working closely with Lucasfilm Games. That small sole proprietorship was the precursor to Totally Games which was incorporated in 1993 as Peregrine Software and renamed Totally Games in 1994.
Totally Games changed its business model in October 2008 to a virtual model and continued developing innovative projects beyond the traditional game publishing environment. Lawrence Holland continues to design games and related software, working with a close-knit team developing on traditional and new platforms including the web,
iPhone, and social media platforms.
List of games
*1988 - ''
Battlehawks 1942''
*1989 - ''
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain''
*1991 - ''
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
''Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe'' is a World War II air-combat combat flight simulation game first released in August 1991 by Lucasfilm Games.
It was the last of a trilogy of World War II titles by Lucasfilm Games, the others being '' Battle ...
''
*1993 - ''
Star Wars: X-Wing''
*1994 - ''
Star Wars: TIE Fighter''
*1997 - ''
Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter''
*1998 - ''
Star Wars: X-Wing Collector Series''
*1999 - ''
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance''
*2002 - ''
Star Trek: Bridge Commander''
*2002 - ''Knights of Decayden'' (cancelled)
*2003 - ''
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
''Secret Weapons Over Normandy'' is a World War II-based arcade video game. Published by LucasArts and developed by Totally Games, the game is composed of 15 objective-based missions set in 1940s European, North African, and the Pacific theat ...
''
*2005 - ''
Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters''
*2006 - ''Special project for DARPA''
*2007 - ''
Alien Syndrome''
*2008 - ''
Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Mermaids
*2008 - ''PBR: Out of the Chute''
*2009 - ''Cisco Mind Share Game'' (for
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...
)
*2009 - ''Oceanis'' (downloadable PC game with Nickelodeon)
*2010 - ''GoldWalker'' (iPhone)
*2011 - ''Beachtown'' (Facebook)
References
External links
Totally Games official website
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Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game development companies
Companies based in San Rafael, California
Video game companies established in 1994
Video game companies disestablished in 2015