Sanctuary Woods
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Sanctuary Woods Multimedia, Inc. was a Canadian-American multimedia developer and third-party game publisher. It was one of the early multimedia companies developing products for CD-ROM distribution. The founders, Brian Beninger and Toni Beninger, were both experienced technologists who saw the potential for developing family-oriented and educational multimedia projects when Apple Inc. released Hypercard.
It published two games developed together with actress Shelley Duvall — It's a Bird's Life and It's a Dog's Life. It also published some well-known titles developed by Presto Studios.
In 1994 Sanctuary Woods purchased from MicroProse the MicroProse Adventure Development System game engine used to develop Rex Nebular and Return of the Phantom.[1] Following disappointing sales through 1995, the company underwent mass layoffs and a corporate restructuring.[2] Sanctuary Woods went out of business in 2001.[3]
3DO
- Dennis Miller: It's Geek to Me
- Dennis Miller: That's News to Me
- It's a Bird's Life
Macintosh
- Hawaii High: Mystery of the Tiki (1994)[4]
- The Journeyman Project Turbo! (1994)
- The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time (1995)
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu (1995)
- How Do You Spell Adventure? (1996)[5]
- Math Ace JR.
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Cyberplasm Formula
PC
- Hawaii High: Mystery of the Tiki (1994)[4]
- Wolf (1994) — the first of two wildlife simulators
- The Journeyman Project Turbo! (1994)
- The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time (1995)
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu (1995)
- Lion (1995) — the follow-up of Wolf
- How Do You Spell Adventure? (1996)[5]
- It's a Bird's Life
- It's a Dog's Life
- Radio Active: A Music Trivia Game
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Cyberplasm Formula
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Hypnotic Harp
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Vampire's Coffin
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Last Dinosaur Egg
- Math Ace Grand Prix Edition
- Word City Grand Prix Edition
Games developed
Victor Vector & Yondo
Victor Vector & Yondo is a series of games published by Sanctuary Woods starring a superhero-like main character called Victor Vector, with a side-kick St. Bernard dog called Yondo. The games were published in the 1990s and had an educational spin to them. They were among the first CD-ROM games to be targeted at children.
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Cyberplasm Formula
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Hypnotic Harp
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Vampire's Coffin
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Last Dinosaur Egg
PC
- Once Upon a Forest
- Orion Burger
- Victor Vector & Yondo|Victor Vector & Yondo: The Cyberplasm Formula
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Hypnotic Harp
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Vampire's Coffin
- Victor Vector & Yondo: The Last Dinosaur Egg
- It's A Bird's Life
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu