Type | Private |
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Industry | Video games |
Founded | 1993 |
Headquarters | Lemont, Illinois |
Key people | Dana Dominiak (CEO, president) |
Products | Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku series Hello Kitty: Happy Party Pals |
Number of employees | 19 |
Website | webfootgames |
Webfoot Technologies is an American developer of personal computer games and video games for various platforms. Titles developed include Hello Kitty: Happy Party Pals and various Dragon Ball Z games for the Game Boy Advance.
Webfoot is best known for its series of Dragon Ball Z games for the Game Boy Advance which were published by Infogrames and Atari. This includes the best selling Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku series of RPG games. Webfoot has also developed other games based on popular licenses including The Legend of Korra , American Girl, Tonka, Hello Kitty, Fear Factor , and Phil Mickelson Golf.
The firm was founded during the early days of the web by Dana Dominiak and Pascal Pochol. The original catalog of titles included mostly DOS-based games, but they later expanded to Microsoft Windows software and eventually Apple Macintosh, Palm Pilot, Windows Mobile (Pocket PC), and handheld platforms including the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. Webfoot's earliest Windows title was probably the cult classic DROD: Deadly Rooms of Death which was programmed by Erik Hermansen. Several of Webfoot's budget products became popular in the late 1990s with best-sellers such as 3D Frog Frenzy, 3D Pinball Express, Super Huey III, and Mahjong Ultimate.
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