Neversoft

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Neversoft Entertainment is an American developer founded in July 1994 by former Malibu Interactive (previously Acme Interactive) employees Joel Jewett, Mick West and Chris Ward and located in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Neversoft is best recognized for their line of Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk skateboarding series. The company was acquired by Activision in October 1999.

They initially worked for the toy company Playmates Interactive Entertainment and then a division of Playmates Toys who were about to release a line of toys called Skeleton Warriors and wanted a video game to go along with the toys and the cartoon series. Neversoft worked on the Sega Genesis version for five months and in December 1994 Playmates cancelled the game. They were not unhappy with the progress but had decided that they needed to get on the 32-Bit bandwagon and develop the game for the Sega Saturn instead. Skeleton Warriors was finished in time for the 1995 holiday season and Neversoft began looking for other work while they ported Skeleton Warriors to the PlayStation in 1996. This lead to their involvement in video games.