Glyn Anderson

Who is Glyn Anderson?

Glyn Anderson has designed, programmed, and managed the production of entertainment products for video game consoles starting with the Intellivision, as well as for PCs from the early MS-DOS days to the present. A musician as well as a programmer, he also created the cross-platform sound and music driver called OminiMusic that was used on many of Activision titles between 1989 and 1992, including Ghostbusters II and Lexi-Cross.

Anderson started making games in 1980 as one of the programmers at APh Technological Consulting, the company that created the Intellivision for Mattel and games including Land Battle and Adventures of Tron. He then worked at Activision with David Crane and Steve Cartwright, creating Atari 800 and Commodore 64 versions of some of their games such as Megamania, Ghostbusters and Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers.

Some of the more unconventional games he has worked on include Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2: Gas Pump Girls Meet the Pulsating Inconvenience from Planet X! with Steve Meretzky and Mutant League Hockey, a sports game that parodies NHL teams with athletes that are monsters, robots and skeletons. Both of these games attracted cult followings.