Attention to Detail Limited
Moby ID: 1093
- ATD - Commonly-used abbreviation
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Attention to Detail Limited was a software development company that developed leisure titles, business software, designed electronics for the arcade, and created many development tools. It was started in the front room of a house in September 1988 by 5 graduates from Birmingham University, Chris Gibbs, Fred Gill, Martin Green, Jon Steele and Jim Torjussen, and at its peak the company employed 75 people and occupied 12,000 sq. ft of converted barns in rural Warwickshire (UK).
Leisure products from ATD's past include such titles as Cybermorph, Blast Chamber, Night Shift, Super Sprint, Rollcage and the Sydney 2000 BAFTA award-winning official Olympic Games video game Rollcage II . Other technical developments have included a powerful on-line Windows utility called Triever, Q-Motion for real-time movie playback and video compression, as well as RasterSpeed, which was a patented video board used by Bell Fruit Manufacturing by their arcade leisure division in the early '90's. The company also designed a LEGO Racers attraction at LEGOLAND in Windsor. It opened in 2001.
ATD joined Geoff Brown Holdings Ltd (which includes Silicon Dreams and Audio Motion) in March 1997 and was also part of the GBH Group. The company went into liquidation on 28th August 2003.
Credited on 16 Games from 1990 to 2002
| Drome Racers (2002 on Windows, PlayStation 2, GameCube) |
| Firebugs (2002 on PlayStation) |
| Salt Lake 2002 (2002 on Windows, PlayStation 2) |
| LEGO Racers 2 (2001 on Windows, PlayStation 2) |
| Ducati World: Racing Challenge (2001 on Windows, PlayStation, Dreamcast) |
| Rollcage Stage II (2000 on Windows, PlayStation) |
| Sydney 2000 (2000 on Windows, PlayStation, Dreamcast) |
| Rollcage (1999 on Windows, PlayStation) |
| The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga (1996 on DOS, PlayStation, SEGA Saturn) |
| Blast Chamber (1996 on DOS, PlayStation, SEGA Saturn) |
| Mutant Penguins (1996 on DOS, Windows, Jaguar) |
| Battlemorph (1995 on Jaguar) |
| Blue Lightning (1995 on Jaguar) |
| Cybermorph (1993 on Jaguar) |
| Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: The Action Game (1992 on DOS, Amiga, Atari ST...) |
| Night Shift (1990 on DOS, Amiga, Atari ST...) |
History +
- August 28, 2003
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Company went into liquidation.
- March 1997
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The company joins Geoff Brown Holdings Ltd.
- September 1988
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ATD was founded by Chris Gibbs, Fred Gill, Martin Green, Jon Steele and Jim Torjussen.
Trivia +
The company were heavily involved in the unreleased Konix Multi-System console, developing its SDK and several demos, as well as working on a 3D action game called Tunnels of Doom (video footage of this survives and looks extremely promising, however after the machine's cancellation the idea was sold to Mirrosoft, who folded before it could be developed).
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Attention to Detail Limited
official site
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 4 games with Atari Corporation
- 3 games with Square Enix Limited
- 3 games with Eidos, Inc.
- 2 games with U.S. Gold Ltd.
- 2 games with Lucasfilm Games
- 2 games with Psygnosis Limited
- 2 games with Silicon Dreams Studio Ltd.
- 2 games with LEGO Interactive
- 2 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 2 games with Eidos GmbH
- 10 games with Chris Gibbs
- 10 games with Fred Gill
- 9 games with Steve Bennett
- 7 games with Andrew Wright
- 7 games with Tony Heap
- 7 games with Peter Long
- 6 games with John Davies
- 6 games with Stuart Tilley
- 6 games with Robert Baker
- 5 games with Lyndon Sharp
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