Rocket Science Games

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Rocket Science Games

Type of Company	Defunct
Founded	1993
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California
Key people	Steve Blank

Rocket Science Games was a video game developer that created games for consoles and computers from 1993 to 1997. The company was responsible for games such as Obsidian, Rocket Jockey, and The Space Bar. Staffed with some of the brightest rising stars of the computer, comics and movie industries, RSG created a huge buzz even before the release of their first titles and claimed to be an on the verge of revolutionizing the video games industry. Founded at the height of the FMV video game craze of the 90s, their first three games utilized the technology heavily; but as a backlash grew and their fortunes suffered due to poor sales, they shifted away from consoles and FMV to concentrate only on more traditional PC games. After the disappointing sales of their early games they received much needed funds from SegaSoft who then became their sole publisher. Unfortunately, while some of their SegaSoft games were critically acclaimed, none of them did particularly well financially, and SegaSoft chose to shut down RSG in 1997.

The Space Bar was the last released game worked on by RSG. Darwin Pond [1] was an unreleased title that was completed before the fall of RSG but was never commercially released, later it was released by Jeffrey Ventrella for free over the internet.