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Boss Game Studios

Boss Game Studios

Overview
Boss Game Studio is a now defunct video game developer specialising in Nintendo 64
Nintendo 64
The , often abbreviated as N64, is Nintendo's third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit CPU, it was released on June 23, 1996 in Japan, September 29, 1996 in North America, March 1, 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1, 1997 in France and December 10,...

 games. The company was formed as an independent offshoot of Boss Film Studios
Boss Film Studios
Boss Film Studios was founded by visual effects veteran Richard Edlund after his departure from Industrial Light and Magic, producing visual effects for over thirty films from 1983 to 1997...

 (a company that created special effects for feature films including Die Hard
Die Hard
Die Hard is a 1988 action film and the first in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. It is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was...

 and Ghost Busters). The company started work on an Xbox
Xbox
The Xbox is a video game console produced by Microsoft. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market, and competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast, and Nintendo's GameCube...

 racing game in 2002
2002 in video gaming
The year 2002 in video gaming saw the release of many games to sixth-generation video game consoles, predominately, the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox.-Events:...

 but disbanded soon after.
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Boss Game Studio is a now defunct video game developer specialising in Nintendo 64
Nintendo 64
The , often abbreviated as N64, is Nintendo's third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit CPU, it was released on June 23, 1996 in Japan, September 29, 1996 in North America, March 1, 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1, 1997 in France and December 10,...

 games. The company was formed as an independent offshoot of Boss Film Studios
Boss Film Studios
Boss Film Studios was founded by visual effects veteran Richard Edlund after his departure from Industrial Light and Magic, producing visual effects for over thirty films from 1983 to 1997...

 (a company that created special effects for feature films including Die Hard
Die Hard
Die Hard is a 1988 action film and the first in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. It is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was...

 and Ghost Busters). The company started work on an Xbox
Xbox
The Xbox is a video game console produced by Microsoft. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market, and competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast, and Nintendo's GameCube...

 racing game in 2002
2002 in video gaming
The year 2002 in video gaming saw the release of many games to sixth-generation video game consoles, predominately, the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox.-Events:...

 but disbanded soon after.

Games developed

  • Top Gear Rally
    Top Gear Rally
    Top Gear Rally is a rally game for the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. It features five tracks. It has a feature that allows the user to give their virtual cars custom paint jobs. Although the name stayed the same, the developers changed between consoles...

     (Nintendo 64) (1997)
  • Spider: The Video Game
    Spider: The Video Game
    Spider: The Video Game is a game developed by Boss Game Studios and available on the PlayStation platform. The game was published by Eidos Interactive.-Premise:...

     (PlayStation
    PlayStation
    The PlayStation is a 32-bit fifth generation video game console released by Sony Computer Entertainment in December ....

    ) (1997)
  • Twisted Edge Snowboarding
    Twisted Edge Snowboarding
    Twisted Edge Extreme Snowboarding is the third snowboarding game released for the Nintendo 64 after Snowboard Kids then 1080° Snowboarding. It is known in Japan as King Hill 64: Extreme Snowboarding...

     (Nintendo 64) (1998)
  • Boss Rally
    Boss Rally
    Boss Rally is a rally game for the PC. It is essentially a modified port of the Nintendo 64 game, Top Gear Rally.- Tracks :In the game there are six tracks, all of which are entirely different. There is Desert, Coastline, Jungle, Strip Mine, Mountain, and Raceway...

     (Windows
    Microsoft Windows
    Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces...

    ) (1999)
  • World Driver Championship
    World Driver Championship
    World Driver Championship is an automobile racing video game. It was developed by Boss Game Studios and published for the Nintendo 64 by Midway Games....

     (Nintendo 64) (1999)
  • Stunt Racer 64
    Stunt Racer 64
    Stunt Racer 64 is a racing game for the Nintendo 64, developed by Boss Studios, and published by Midway for a North American release in 2000.-Features:Set in the future, the gameplay includes more than simple racing...

     (Nintendo 64) (2000)
  • RacerX (Xbox) (unreleased)