Monkeystone Games

Monkeystone Games
Defunct
Industry Interactive entertainment
Founded 2001
Defunct 2005
Headquarters Quinlan, Texas, United States
Key people
 John Romero, Founder
Tom Hall,
Stevie Case,
Brian Moon
Lucas Davis
Website Official website

Monkeystone Games was a video game developer and publisher founded by John Romero, Tom Hall, Stevie Case, and Brian Moon. The company's focus was on mobile games. After its inception in July 2001, Monkeystone published several titles on multiple platforms.

Games

Their first in-house title, Hyperspace Delivery Boy! was first developed for the Pocket PC and released on December 23, 2001. The game was then ported to Windows, Mac, Linux and Game Boy Advance, although the Game Boy Advance version was never released.[1] Monkeystone also published titles by third parties such as Argentum, Rocket Elite, Bust Em, Night Shift, and others.

Monkeystone's second in-house title was a puzzler called Congo Cube. They initially developed Congo Cube for Windows, then ported it to the Pocket PC, Java ME phones, and BREW phones.

Their third in-house title was a recreation of the PlayStation 2 hit Red Faction on Nokia's new gaming deck, N-Gage. It was completed in October 2003.

Closure

Brian Moon left Monkeystone sometime in 2002. Stevie Case left Monkeystone in mid-2003. Tom Hall and John Romero left Monkeystone in October 2003 to work at Midway Games. One of their colleagues, Lucas Davis, was left to run the day-to-day operations, but the company closed in January 2005.

References

  1. ↑ Harris, Craig (August 1, 2002). "John Romero's Monkeystone group brings to life its first GBA product". IGN. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
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