Access Software, Inc. (Company)

Access Software, Inc.

COMPANY» Founded 1983-01-01

Salt Lake City,Utah,United States

Access Software was know for their legacy of golf sims as well as the Tex Murphy adventure games, Amped snowboarding and Top Spin tennis. Most recently known as Indie Built before their closure.

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Access Software was a Salt Lake City, UT based game developer started in 1982 by Bruce Carver (Person).

Access Software began creating golf simulation games for the PC with the Leader Board (Franchise) golfing games. These games kicked off the legacy of Access Software golf sims which also included the Microsoft Golfsim series and most notably the award winning Linksseries of golf games.

Although they published many games throughout their 24-year lifespan they were mainly known for their Links series of games and three other popular franchises: the Tex Murphy (Character) series of adventure games, the Ampedseries of snowboarding games, and the Top Spin (Game) series of tennis sims.

Access Software was purchased by Microsoftin 1999, likely to retain the popular Links series of games as a Windows and Xbox exclusive series. Access Software became known as Salt Lake Studio at this point and was later renamed Indie Games. Indie Games was sold to Take-Two interactive in October 2004, then renamed Indie Built Games, finished development on Amped 3 (Game) and Top Spin 2 and was then dissolved completely in early 2006.

Previous Access Software employees including Access Software Co-owner Chris Jones (Person) now create the <span>TruGolf</span> line of golf sims.

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Links 386 Pro (Game)

31 December 1992

An enhanced sequel to Links: The Challenge of Golf, revamping the game's UI and rendering engine while supporting higher-quality courses.

PC MAC

The Pandora Directive (Game)

31 July 1996

Pandora Directive is the 4th game to star bumbling private investigator Tex Murphy, played by Chris Jones, and the second in the series to feature extensive use of both full motion video as well as detailed fully 3D environments.

PC MAC

Under a Killing Moon (Game)

31 October 1994

The third game from Access Software featuring Tex Murphy, Private Investigator, and the first to bring FMV and 3D to the series.

PC MAC

Links 2001 (Game)

24 October 2000

PC

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Links 386 CD (Game)

31 December 1994

PC

Tex Murphy: Overseer (Game)

13 March 1998

Despite the intention of being the first in a trilogy of new Tex Murphy games, Overseer left the world of Tex Murphy with a shocking cliff hanger that would never be resolved in game format.

PC