New Level Software

New Level Software was my first company and one of the wildest stretches of my game career: a small independent team making commercial console games, learning fast, shipping under pressure, and trying to punch above our weight in the 1990s game business.

This page is a memory-lane home for stories, links, memorabilia, screenshots, and posts about the games we made there.

Road Rash - Sega CD

New Level Software worked on the Sega CD version of Road Rash for Electronic Arts, bringing a fast, attitude-heavy racing game into the full-motion-video era.

Courier Crisis - PlayStation

Courier Crisis was a full PlayStation game built around bike courier chaos, city navigation, and arcade-style attitude.

Minds Behind the PlayStation Games

Courier Crisis was featured in The Minds Behind the PlayStation Games, including my face on the cover.

Stories To Collect

How New Level Software started
Building a small console game team
Shipping Road Rash on Sega CD
Making Courier Crisis for PlayStation
The Spider-Man demo we built for Activision after Courier Crisis
Beavis and Butt-Head, the final New Level Software game that was canceled before shipping
The business side of being a young independent studio
Old press, ads, disks, photos, and trade-show memories
What I learned before moving into larger game teams and platform work

Unshipped Beavis and Butt-Head Game

After Courier Crisis and the Spider-Man demo for Activision, New Level Software worked on a Beavis and Butt-Head project that became our final game. It was canceled before shipping, but it was a memorable project, including getting to work with Mike Judge on the game.

There is more of that story in this video from someone who interviewed me about unshipped 1990s retro games: Beavis and Butt-Head unshipped game interview video.

Links

This page is the starting point. I will add more scans, photos, stories, and social posts as I dig through the archive.