Saffire (video game developer)

Saffire Corporation
Industry Video game industry
Founder Les Pardew
Headquarters American Fork, Utah
Area served
Worldwide

Saffire was a contract video game developer located in American Fork, Utah. It is noted both for porting games and making some original titles. It started as a game development studio founded originally as Cygnus Multimedia by Les Pardew in the early 90's. It was started in Pardew's basement and had six employees in the initial stage.

In 1994, it changed its name to Saffire and was later headed up by Sculptured Software co-founder, Hal Rushton. They released their last title, Thunderbirds, in 2004 and went out of business sometime afterwards.

Titles

Title Publisher Platforms Release date
Hardball '95 Accolade Sega Genesis 1995
Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars Time Warner Interactive Super NES December 1995
Nester's Funky Bowling Nintendo Virtual Boy February 26, 1996
Legends Football '98 Accolade Windows August 31, 1997
James Bond 007 Nintendo Game Boy January 29, 1998
Rampage World Tour Midway Nintendo 64 March 30, 1998
Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. Midway Nintendo 64, PlayStation May 31, 1998
StarCraft: Brood War Blizzard, Sierra On-Line Windows, Mac OS November 30, 1998
Oddworld Adventures GT Interactive Game Boy December 1998
Animaniacs: Ten Pin Alley ASC Games PlayStation December 1, 1998
Top Gear Rally 2 Kemco Nintendo 64 October 31, 1999
Rainbow Six Red Storm Entertainment Nintendo 64 November 17, 1999
Billy Bob's Huntin' and Fishin' Midway Game Boy Color November 17, 1999
Xena: Warrior Princess: The Talisman of Fate Titus Nintendo 64 December 14, 1999
Oddworld Adventures 2 GT Interactive Game Boy Color January 2000
The Mask of Zorro Sunsoft Game Boy Color February 2000
CyberTiger Electronic Arts Nintendo 64 February 29, 2000
ESPN MLS Gamenight Konami PlayStation September 19, 2000
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes Midway Dreamcast October 30, 2000
Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear Red Storm Entertainment Playstation March 27, 2001
Lego Bionicle Lego Media Game Boy Advance October 3, 2001
E.T.: Escape from Planet Earth NewKidCo Game Boy Color November 4, 2001
Barbarian Titus Software PlayStation 2 June 27, 2002
Hot Wheels Velocity X THQ Game Boy Advance October 31, 2002
Justice League: Injustice for All Midway PC November 17, 2002
The Hobbit Sierra Entertainment Game Boy Advance November 11, 2003
Peter Pan: The Motion Picture Event Atari Game Boy Advance December 10, 2003
Van Helsing Vivendi Universal PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance May 6, 2004
Around the World in 80 Days Hip Games Game Boy Advance July 5, 2004
Thunderbirds Vivendi Universal Game Boy Advance August 10, 2004

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