Incredible Technologies

Founded in 1985 last activity in 2010
Status: nomoregames
Country: USA

2.0

per year

Incredible Technologies (IT), based in Vernon Hills,
Illinois, is a US-based designer and manufacturer
of coin-operated video games and Class III casino
games, best known for the Golden Tee Golf series.
The company employs over 200 people at its subur-
ban Chicago campus.
Founded in July 1985 by Richard Ditton,
a NASA software engineer, and Elaine Hodgson,
a biochemist, IT began as a software design gam-
ing firm. The company started in the basement of
the owners’ home and focused on a wide variety of
work-for-hire entertainment projects, including pin-
ball hardware and game programming for Data East.
In its early years, IT struggled to maintain profitabil-
ity without a solid hit.
In 1988 IT developed hardware and software
for its first coin-operated video game Capcom Bowl-
ing, which used a trackball to simulate the movement
of a bowler’s toss. A dozen more titles followed in
the 1990s under the brand name Strata Games.
In September 1989 at the Amusement and
Music Operators Association (AMOA) International
Expo the company launched a golf game titled Gold-
en Tee Golf, which used a trackball much like the
bowling game, this time to simulate a golfer’s swing.
The game slowly built a following throughout the
1990s, and by 1996 IT was producing updates to the
game every year. The game celebrated its 20th an-
niversary in 2009 and IT released a new high defini-
tion version of the game in a Showpiece cabinet.
In the face of declining coin-operated video
game sales, IT looked to diversify its product line.
The company began researching the improvement of
Electronic Gaming Machine (EGM) or Slot Machine
technology, and in 2008 released the Magic Touch
collection of video slot, poker and keno games.

It is known for Peggle, Street Fighter

Releases per year

1983	1

1987	2
1988	2
1989	8
1990	12
1991	4
1992	2
1993	3
1994	2
1995	3
1996	1
1997	1
1998	2
1999	1
2000	2
2001	1
2002	1

2007	1
2008	2
2009	1
2010	1

53 video games with valid date were considered (100%)

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Top platforms

Arcade		31
MS-DOS		5
Amiga		4
C64		3
Wii		2
Atari ST		2
Windows		1
Win3.1		1
iOS		1
Apple II E		1
NES		1
PS		1