Crack dot Com

Crack dot Com was a computer game development company co-founded by ex-id Software programmer Dave Taylor, and Jonathan Clark.[1]

Crack dot Com
Video game industry
Founded1996
Defunct1998
Headquarters
ProductsAbuse

History

The company released only one game, Abuse, an MS-DOS scrolling platform shooter which sold over 80,000 copies worldwide. Based on a public source code release, Abuse was ported to a wide variety of platforms including Microsoft Windows, MacOS, AIX, SGI Irix, Amiga/AmigaOS, and Linux.[2]

Prior to the company's closing in October 1998,[3] they were working on Golgotha, a hybrid of first-person shooter and real-time strategy. The game was never finished and Crack dot com made the source and data for Golgotha (as also Abuse) public domain.

References

  1. Jonathan Clark (26–30 October 1998). "So Long, Crack.com". loonygames. loonyboi productions. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  2. Abuse_1996 on github.com
  3. sengan (22 October 1998). "Crack.com closes shop". Slashdot. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
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