Lankhor

Lankhor
IndustryVideo games
Founded1987; 38 years ago (1987)
FounderJean-Luc Langlois and Kilkhor
DefunctOctober 2, 2002 (2002-10-02)
Headquarters
Clamart
,
France
Key people
Jean-Luc Langlois, Daniel Macre
Revenue345'075'848 (1998)
388'116'196 (1992)

Lankhor was a French video game developer based in Clamart, France. The company was founded in 1987 by Jean-Luc Langlois and Kyilkohr. Lankhor was known for developing Mortville Manor, the first video game to feature speech synthesis during gameplay.[1]

In 1998, the company won the award for the Best French Company by the magazine Génération 4.[2]

History

Lankhor was founded in 1987 as a result of the merger between Kyilkohr creations and Béatrice & Jean-Luc Langlois. Lankhor gained fame with productions such as the arcade game Wanderer (1987) by the Langlois siblings and, above all, the adventure games Mortville Manor and Maupiti Island. Mortevielle by Gourier and Bernard Grélaud was published for the first time in 1986 on the Sinclair QL platform, but in the refreshed version of Lankhor (with a new title board and speech synthesizer) was successful a significant commercial success, repeated by Maupiti Island.[3][4] Another commercial success for Lankhor was the racing game Vroom, simulating the competition during Formula 1.[5][6] Mortevielle, Maupiti Island and Vroom were awarded Tilt d'Or statuettes, awarded by the industry magazine Tilt.[4][5]

From 1994, the company abandoned its publishing activities to devote itself solely to development. At the beginning of 1996, Daniel Macré having joined Jean-Luc Langlois in the company management, signed a development contract for Formula 1 games under FIA license with the British publisher Eidos Interactive. In 2000, Lankhor was developing video games for Microïds including Ski Park Manager which was released in 2002.[7] The company however experienced a difficult financial situation which started at the end of the same year; this situation led the company to cancel its contract with Video System, a Japanese video game distribution house. At the end of 2001, Lankhor announced its closure which came to pass on October 3, 2002.[3]

Games

Year Title
1987 Mortville Manor
1987 No (Never Outside!)
1987 Wanderer
1988 Elemental
1988 G.Nius
1988 Killdozers
1988 Rody & Mastico
1988 Troubadours
1990 Maupiti Island
1990 Raiders
1990 Saga
1990 Sdaw
1990 La Secte Noire
1991 Alive
1991 Alcantor
1991 Burglar
1991 Fugitif
1991 Infernal House
1991 La Crypte Des Maudits
1991 La Malédiction
1991 Le Trésor D'Ali Gator
1991 Mokowe
1991 Outzone
1991 Vroom
1992 Silva
1992 Survivre
1993 Black Sect
1993 F1
1995 Kawasaki Superbike
1998 New Order Liberation
1999 Official Formula One Racing
2000 F-1 World Grand Prix
2000 Warm Up!
2002 Ski Park Manager

References

  1. ^ ACE Magazine Issue 13. ACE. October 1988. p. 104.
  2. ^ "Récompenses 4 d'or de l'année 1988 - ABANDONWARE FRANCE". Abandonware (in French). 1998. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  3. ^ a b "Lankhor - Grospixels". Grospixels (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-17.
  4. ^ a b Jankowski, Filip (2019-12-30). Reckoning with the historical past of France on the example of Lankhor's games (in Polish). Vol. 6. Replay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies. pp. 28–29. doi:10.18778/2391-8551.06.02.
  5. ^ a b Blottière, Olivier (April 1992). "Vroom test". Obligement (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  6. ^ Ribault 2019.
  7. ^ "Ski Park Manager: Zbuduj swoje Zakopane PC" [Ski Park Manager: Build your Zakopane PC]. GRY-Online Poland (in Polish). Retrieved 2023-05-17.

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