Josh Mandel

Developer BIO

Josh Mandel (born October 9, 1958) was one of Sierra On-Line's most prominent game designers. Prior to being hired by the company, he won a Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places) contest (see trivia item). He worked on many adventure games produced by the company, most notably Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (1993), which he co-designed with Al Lowe, and Space Quest 6 (1995). He also worked for Legend Entertainment, and was the lead designer and writer of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1997). Josh Mandel was the first person to voice King Graham of King's Quest series.

Websites

• Entrevista a Josh Mandel -- Interview by Raúl Alvarez (from Macedoniamagazine) to Josh Mandel (in Spanish) (July 1999)
• Interview with Josh Mandel -- Interview to Josh Mandel by Raúl Alvarez (from macedoniamagazine). English version. (July 1999)
• Adventure Classic Gaming -- Interview with Josh Mandel (April 2006)
• Interview with Josh Mandel -- Interview with Josh Mandel at Aventura y CÍA in February, 2002
• IMDb -- Josh Mandel at IMDb
• Josh Mandel's Website -- What Josh is currently doing and all the games he has worked on can be found here.
• Interview with Josh Mandel -- Randy Sluganski questions Josh Mandel on Just Adventure (June 1999)

Games Credited

• King's Quest III Redux: To Heir is Human (2011), AGD Interactive, LLC
• Insecticide (2008), Gamecock Media Group
• Insecticide: Part 1 (2008), Gamecock Media Group
• Crash of the Titans (2007), Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
• Hour of Victory (2007), Midway Games, Inc.
• King's Quest Collection (2006), Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
• King's Quest III: To Heir is Human (2006),
• Hungry Red Planet (2002), Health Media Lab, Inc.
• King's Quest II: Romancing the Stones (2002), AGD Interactive, LLC
• King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown (2001), Tierra Entertainment
• Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business (2000), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
• Terminus (2000), Vatical Entertainment LLC
• Jagged Alliance 2 (1999), TopWare Interactive
• John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles: An Adventure in Terror (1998), Red Orb Entertainment
• Sonic Adventure (1998), SEGA Enterprises Ltd.
• Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (1997), Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
• King's Quest: Collection Series (1997), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Mission Critical (1995), Legend Entertainment Company
• Shannara (1995), Legend Entertainment Company
• Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier (1995), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• King's Quest (Collector's Edition) (1994), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Space Quest (Collector's Edition) (1994), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (1993), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Hoyle Classic Card Games (1993), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Lost Secret of the Rainforest (1993), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Pepper's Adventures in Time (1993), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Space Quest V: The Next Mutation (1993), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• The Dagger of Amon Ra (1992), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• The Island of Dr. Brain (1992), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Jones in the Fast Lane: CD-ROM (1992), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (1992), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (1992), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Quest for Glory III: Wages of War (1992), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Jones in the Fast Lane (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Mixed-Up Mother Goose (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Police Quest 3: The Kindred (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Roberta Williams' Mixed-Up Mother Goose (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact (1990), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! (1990), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Roberta Williams' King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown (1990), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Zeliard (1990), Sierra On-Line, Inc.