Tradewest

Trade West is a no longer existing American games developer based in Corsicana (Texas ), who published numerous games in the 1980s and 1990s. Best known is the company as a publisher of game series Battletoads and Double Dragon.

In August 2009, the West Trade name was introduced under the new owner of Midway Games under the name Trade West games. Midway Games took advantage of the trade mark West in 1996 as its own.

  • 2.1 Arcade
  • 2.2 Nintendo Entertainment System
  • 2.3 Game Boy
  • 2.4 Super Nintendo Entertainment System
  • 2.5 Sega Mega Dive

History

Trade West in 1986 by John Rowe (Vice Chairman), Leland Cook ( banker and farmer ) and his son Byron Cook was founded. Trade West began with the production of SNK 's Ikari Warriors ( Arcade ) in the United States, Continuing with the development of Victory Road, Alpha Mission, Redline Racer, John Elway's Quarterback and Ivan " Ironman " Stewart's Super Off- Road, when the company finally the Coin -op arcade game business adrift and put their focus on video games for home consoles.

In 1987, West Trade Cinematronics in El Cajon (California), which produced, among others, the games Dragon 's Lair and Space Ace. From then wore the merger of the two companies the name Leland Corporation. John Rowe was selected to lead the company headquarters in El Cajon, since he was deputy chairman of SNK already vorwies a successful career in the video game business.

1994 Trade West of WMS Industries ( owner of the Williams and Midway brands) was acquired and renamed Williams Entertainment, signifying the end of Trade West had as an independent company result. WMS procured in this way to enter the video game market.

1996 WMS lost interest in video games and transferred Williams Entertainment finally about Midway, which henceforth Midway Home Entertainment called themselves. As was the case with WMS, Midway was thus in the video game market foothold and was able to develop and publish, without having to rely on other publishers video games. The Corsicana facility in Texas and a new R § D facility in San Diego remained Midway and employed henceforth Byron Cook (then CEO of Midway Home Entertainment ) and John Rowe (then vice chairman and head of product development ) for the development and installation of games for Nintendo's GameCube, Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's Playstation and PC.

Subsequently

  • Midway 's headquarters in Chicago closed the Corsicana office and dismissed its staff at the end of 2002.
  • The El Cajon branch was relocated to the vicinity of San Diego, California and is now the only seat of Midway Home Entertainment.
  • Byron Cook left the video games business in favor of the policy at the end of 2000. Governmental He is representative of the Corsicana district in Texas
  • 2009 lived West Trade Name scratch. As part of the management buy-out of Midway, in which the previous management of the company has the owners bought their shares with the support of investors, this also acquired at the same time the rights to the name.

List of products manufactured and marketed by West Trade Games

Arcade

  • Alpha Mission (1985 )
  • Ikari Warriors ( 1986)
  • Victory Road (1987 )

Nintendo Entertainment System

  • Double Dragon (June 1988)
  • John Elway's Quarterback Challenge ( March 1989)
  • Taboo: The Sixth Sense ( April 1989)
  • Magic Johnson 's Fast Break ( March 1990)
  • Ivan " Ironman " Stewart's Super Off Road ( April 1990)
  • Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship ( September 1990)
  • Battletoads (June 1991)
  • High Speed ​​( July 1991)
  • Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat ( August 1992 )
  • R. C. Pro-Am II ( December 1992 )
  • Battletoads & Double Dragon (June 1993)

Game Boy

  • Double Dragon ( August 1990)
  • Sneaky Snakes (June 1991)
  • Battletoads ( November 1991 ) - story, graphics and level design is extremely different from the also published in 1991 NES game, although the title and cover illustration was taken.
  • Jack Nicklaus Golf (May 1992)
  • Super Off Road ( November 1992 )
  • Battletoads in Raganarok 's World (June 1993) - port of the NES title from 1991
  • Battletoads & Double Dragon ( December 1993)

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

  • Super Off Road ( December 1991 )
  • Jack Nicklaus Golf (May 1992)
  • Pro Quarterback ( September 1992 )
  • Super Double Dragon ( 15 October 1992 )
  • Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (June 1993)
  • Super Baseball 2020 (July 1993)
  • Plok ( September 1993 )
  • Super Off Road: The Baja ( September 1993 )
  • Battletoads & Double Dragon ( December 1993)
  • Fun ' N ' Games ( August 1994 )
  • Troy Aikman NFL Football ( August 1994 )
  • Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (August 5, 1994)

Sega Mega Dive

  • Championship Pro-Am (12 May 1992)
  • Battletoads (13 July 1992)
  • Pro Quarterback ( September 1992 )
  • Fun ' N ' Games (2 August 1993)
  • Battletoads & Double Dragon ( December 1993)
  • Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (August 5, 1994)
  • Troy Aikman NFL Football ( August 1994 )
Types of business entity Corsicana, Texas Video game publisher Battletoads (video game) Double Dragon (series) El Cajon, California
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