Locomotive Games, Inc.
Moby ID: 2038
- Pacific Coast Power & Light - Alternate spelling
- Pacific Coast Power and Light (from 1998 to 2005-04)
- DT Productions (from 1997 to 1998)
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Locomotive Games, Inc. was originally founded in 1997 by Don Traeger and Dennis Harper under the name of DT Productions. Only two years later, in 1999, the company was acquired by THQ, Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary.
It was known as Pacific Coast Power and Light for about seven years, and then it was renamed to Locomotive Productions, Inc. in 2005.
Located in Santa Clara, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, their primary focus was making games for the Nintendo Wii and the Sony PSP. THQ closed the studio in November 2008.
Credited on 10 Games from 1999 to 2008
| Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed (2008 on Wii) |
| Disneyā¢Pixar Ratatouille (2007 on PSP) |
| Disney Presents a Pixar Film: Cars (2006 on PSP) |
| Power Rangers: Dino Thunder (2004 on PlayStation 2, GameCube) |
| WWE Crush Hour (2003 on PlayStation 2, GameCube) |
| MX Superfly Featuring Ricky Carmichael (2002 on PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube) |
| MX 2002 featuring Ricky Carmichael (2001 on PlayStation 2, Xbox) |
| Road Rash 64 (1999 on Nintendo 64) |
| Jet Moto 3 (1999 on PlayStation, PSP, PlayStation 3) |
| Nuclear Strike (1997 on Windows, PlayStation, Nintendo 64...) |
History +
- November 2008
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The studio is closed by THQ.
- April 2005
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The company changes its name to Locomotive Games, Inc.
- 1999
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The company is purchased by THQ and becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary.
- 1997
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Company founded as DT Productions by Don Traeger and Dennis Harper.
Trivia +
The company website was formerly located at www.locomotivegames.com
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 9 games with THQ Inc.
- 3 games with THQ Entertainment GmbH
- 2 games with THQ (UK) Limited
- 2 games with THQ France
- 1 game with Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
- 1 game with Hanshaw Ink & Image
- 1 game with Axiom Interactive Design, SLC
- 1 game with Criterion Software Ltd.
- 1 game with 989 Studios
- 1 game with WWE Graphic Department
- 9 games with Don Traeger
- 9 games with Ken Proudfoot
- 7 games with Howard Liebeskind
- 6 games with David Bowman
- 6 games with Liz Pieri
- 6 games with Randal Shaffer
- 6 games with Mario Waibel
- 6 games with Dennis Harper
- 6 games with Sarah Smith
- 5 games with Hugh Sider
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