Troy Lyndon
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Troy Lyndon, April 1993
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Troy Alan Lyndon November 29, 1964 New York, NY |
| Residence | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, Business Coach, Game developer |
| Website | Troy Lyndon in LinkedIn |
Troy A. Lyndon (born November 29, 1964 in New York, NY) is an award-winning entrepreneur, game developer, and business coach.
Lyndon's parents are Jacquie Edelen, a homemaker, and David Lyndon, a retired professor, former Marine, and Director of the Navy's Aegis Program for RCA and Seasparrow Program Director for Raytheon Corporation. Adopted by David at age 6, he followed David's engineering footsteps completing his first 5 nationally published games before the age of 20.
He attended Moorpark College where he majored in Business Administration, but left college early to pursue more opportunities during the watershed years of the video game industry.
At age 13, Troy Lyndon developed and sold his first video game professionally, titled Space Voyager for the Radio Shack TRS-80. Encouraged by his childhood friend, David Jennings, he followed with two additional games titled Great Wave, Space Quest and Conqueror also for the TRS-80.
He co-authored Atari to Commodore 64 game conversions of Time Runner, Snokie and Flak with co-developers Scott Maxwell and Yves Lempereur. He left to pursue video game development full-time.
Working under contract for Datasoft, Lyndon completed development of the Commodore 64 of Lost Tomb and developed from scratch the Commodore 64 version of Mr. Do!, consumer versions of coin-op arcade games.
Hired by GameStar, which was acquired by Activision, Lyndon started by developing simulated sprite drivers for the Macintosh version of Star League Baseball. Programming for GameStar continued even after the Activision acquisition while Lyndon went on to develop Star Rank Boxing, Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing, GBA 2-on-2 Basketball and portions of GFL 3D Football. He also produced the game version of Howard the Duck.
Branching out on his own, Lyndon signed a 15 title deal with Capcom to bring numerous coin-op games to the Commodore 64 and new IBM PC platforms. Games included Street Fighter, Sarge, Speed Rumbler, Hat Trick, 1942, Bionic Commando, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Side Arms, and Tiger Road. Lyndon became the co-founder of Pacific Dataworks International with Christopher T. Riggs.
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