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Leland Interactive Media is a video game developer that made Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis games like Kyle Petty's No Fear Racing , Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls , and Troy Aikman NFL Football . The company was established in 1992 and developed games primarily in the 1990s.

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