Lobotomy Software
| Industry |
Computer and video games Interactive entertainment |
|---|---|
| Founded |
Redmond, Washington, U.S. (January 13, 1993) |
| Defunct | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Redmond, Washington, U.S. |
| Products | PowerSlave |
Lobotomy Software was an American video game company, best known for their game PowerSlave (Exhumed in Europe and A.D. 1999: Pharaoh's Revival in Japan). They also developed the Sega Saturn ports of Quake and Duke Nukem 3D, both of which were successful.
Lobotomy Software was founded in 1993, when a group of friends working at Nintendo of America left to form their own company, becoming the Creative department of Lobotomy, with the engineering talent coming from Manley & Associates (Manley & Associates was later acquired by Electronic Arts in 1996, renamed Electronic Arts Seattle, and subsequently shut down in 2002). They originally worked out of co-founder Paul Lange's apartment, but soon set up an office in Redmond, Washington. The team began working on various game demos, Joe Louis Boxing, Pigball, Hippie Man, and Ruins: Return of the Gods, the last of which later became the first-person shooter PC game, PowerSlave.
PowerSlave was similar to Doom, though it featured an Egyptian theme. The PC version ran on 3D Realms' Build engine (the same game engine that ran the PC version of Duke Nukem 3D).
PowerSlave received enough success to help Lobotomy Software secure a contract to port the game over to the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation. Lobotomy Software originally wanted to port PowerSlave from the PC to the Saturn and PlayStation with no changes. However, the weaker hardware of the consoles made this impossible. Instead, Lobotomy Software created their own fully 3D game engine known as SlaveDriver and decided to recreate PowerSlave with new level designs for the Saturn and PlayStation; the console versions of PowerSlave were a success. A game developed by Lobotomy Software member Ezra Dreisbach, Death Tank, could be unlocked in the Sega Saturn version of PowerSlave after fulfilling specific requirements.
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