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Russell Lieblich Biography Aliases: None Home Country: Unknown Russell Lieblich was born on 1953 and raised in New York City, New York. He would go on to attended college in Brooklyn. He later moved to San Diego and attended the University of California. He studied physics, but got his Masters degree in Music. By this time he was proficient on the piano and the saxophone. After he graduated, Lieblich got a job teaching music. In his spare time he would compose music and surf. In 1980 there was a musician strike and he lost his job, but shortly thereafter he was hired by Mattel's new videogame division, Intellivision, as a programmer and composer. He was the fifth person hired to the division which at its peak was over 200 people. Only half a year after being hired Lieblich quit due to his growing disapproval of the department leader. It just so happened that Activision started looking for programmers who had experience on Mattel's Intellivision system in the fall of 1982. Lieblich was hired and continued to write music. He remained at Activision all through the 80s and 90s helping Activision's developers create music for their games. Lieblich is often noted as the first musician to be involved with rhythm games (games based around music). Lieblich continued to write game music until his last game in 1998. In his final years Lieblich was performing jazz music at lounge clubs and various other venues. Lieblich past away on January 26, 2005 outside his home in Long Island, New York due to a heart attack. He was 53 when he died. He is remembered by the remix scene having had several of his songs made popular once again. Gameography Released Title Plat Developer 1981/??/?? Snafu INTV Mattel Electronics 1981/??/?? Utopia INTV Mattel Electronics 1982/??/?? Night Stalker INTV Mattel Electronics 1985/??/?? Master of the Lamp A2 Activision, Inc. 1985/??/?? Master of the Lamp A8 Activision, Inc. 1985/??/?? Master of the Lamp C64 Activision, Inc. 1986/??/?? Aliens: The Computer Game C64 Activision, Inc. 1986/??/?? Hacker II: The Doomsday Papers DOS Activision, Inc. 1986/??/?? Howard the Duck C64 Activision, Inc. 1986/??/?? Howard the Duck MSX Activision, Inc. 1986/??/?? Portal A2 Nexa Corporation 1986/??/?? Portal AMI Nexa Corporation 1986/??/?? Portal AST Nexa Corporation 1986/??/?? Portal C64 Nexa Corporation 1986/??/?? Portal MAC Nexa Corporation 1986/??/?? Portal PCBT Nexa Corporation 1986/??/?? Tass Times In Tonetown AMI Brainwave Creations, Interplay Productions, Inc. 1986/??/?? Tass Times In Tonetown PCBT Interplay Entertainment Corp. 1986/??/?? The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth C64 David Crane 1987/??/?? Gee Bee Air Rally AMI Activision, Inc. 1987/??/?? Gee Bee Air Rally C64 Activision, Inc. 1987/??/?? GFL Championship Football AMI Gamestar 1987/??/?? Star Rank Boxing II C64 The Softworks Factory 1988/??/?? The Last Ninja DOS System 3 Software, Ltd. 1989/10/?? Stealth ATF NES Imagineering Inc. 1989/??/?? Deathtrak DOS Dynamix, Inc. 1989/??/?? Face Off! DOS MindSpan 1989/??/?? Ghostbusters II DOS Dynamix, Inc. 1989/??/?? The Manhole DOS Cyan Worlds, Inc. 1989/??/?? MechWarrior DOS Dynamix, Inc. 1989/??/?? Tongue of the Fatman DOS Brian A. Rice, Inc. 1990/??/?? F-14 Tomcat DOS Activision, Inc. 1990/??/?? Joe Montana Football DOS MindSpan 1990/??/?? Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye DOS Activision, Inc. 1991/??/?? Sargon 5: World Class Chess DOS Activision, Inc. 1992/11/?? A-Train MAC Artdink 1992/??/?? Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 DOS Infocom 1992/??/?? Les Manley In: Lost In L.A. DOS Manley & Associates, Inc. 1992/??/?? Shadow of Yserbius DOS Sierra On-Line, Inc. 1992/??/?? SIM Life DOS Maxis Software, Inc. 1992/??/?? SIM Life W16 Maxis Software, Inc. 1992/??/?? SpellCraft: Aspects of Valor DOS Asciiware 1992/??/?? The Manhole: New and Enhanced DOS Activision Publishing, Inc. 1992/??/?? The Manhole: New and Enhanced W16 Activision Publishing, Inc. 1993/??/?? A-Train AMI Artdink 1993/??/?? Dominus DOS Visual Concepts Entertainment, Inc. 1993/??/?? Fates of Twinion DOS Sierra On-Line, Inc. 1994/11/?? NHL 95 SNES High Score Productions, Visual Concepts Entertainment, Inc. 1994/??/?? Mutant League Hockey GEN Mutant Productions 1995/??/?? NHL 95 GEN High Score Productions 1996/??/?? Golden Gate Killer W16 Interworks 1997/06/04 PGA Tour Pro W32 Electronic Arts, Inc. 1997/08/08 Tigershark W32 n-Space, Inc. 1998/10/01 Duke Nukem: Time to Kill PS1 n-Space, Inc. 1998/11/25 Knockout Kings PS1 Press Start Inc 1998/??/?? PGA Tour Gold W32 Electronic Arts, Inc. Links Home Page: None Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lieblich More Photos

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