Beyond Games

Beyond Games was an American video game developer. It was founded in 1992 by Kris Johnson.^[1][2][3] The first release from the company was BattleWheels for the Atari Lynx, winner of the 1993 Consumer Electronics Show Innovations Award.^[4][5][6] Their follow-up, CyberVirus was planned for release the following year, but abandoned due to sagging sales of the platform. Assets and code were sold to Songbird Productions, who completed and published the game in 2002.

This article is about the 1990s U.S. video game developer. For the 1980s UK video game developer, see Beyond Software. For the 1988-1991 U.S. video game developer, see Stormfront Studios.

Beyond Games

Industry	Video games
Founded	1992
Founder	Kris Johnson
Defunct	2003
Headquarters	United States
Website	Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archived November 20, 2002)

Before they went under, they were working on a game titled Doomsday Rescue. In 2003, many of their employees, including Kris Johnson, would go on to form Smart Bomb Interactive (now known as WildWorks), where they continue to make games.

Games

Title	Details
BattleWheels Original release date: June 1993[7]	Release years by system: 1993 – Atari Lynx
	Notes: Vehicular combat game Published by Beyond Games
Ultra Vortek Original release date: September 13, 1995[8]	Release years by system: 1995 – Atari Jaguar
	Notes: Fighting game Published by Atari Corporation
Redline Original release date: March 24, 1999[9]	Release years by system: 1999 – Windows
	Notes: First-person shooter Published by Accolade
Motor Mayhem Original release date: July 2, 2001[10]	Release years by system: 2001 – PlayStation 2
	Notes: Vehicular combat game Published by Infogrames
Hot Wheels Velocity X Original release date: October 18, 2002	Release years by system: 2002 – GameCube, Windows, PlayStation 2
	Notes: Racing video game Published by THQ