It achieved critical acclaim, but it was released for the Game Boy Color one year after the release of the Game Boy Advance and as a result only enjoyed limited success.
In mid 2002, WayForward released their first game based on their own intellectual property called Shantae, created by Matt Bozon, with Capcom as publisher. John Beck, the current CEO, has said that by providing services on these projects the company managed to create a stable structure.
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WayForward returned exclusively to their video game development business in April 1997, choosing to be a "developer for hire" by providing services to software publishers. During this time, WayForward still focused on licensed assets such as the Muppets for their educational games, but also Godzilla or The Scorpion King for their more traditional games. The partnership was successful, with the company winning awards for innovation at the 1995 Consumer Electronics Show. In 1994, WayForward Technologies concluded a partnership with American Education Publishing in order to focus on developing exclusively educational computer games (working under the name Brighter Child Interactive). The Muppets, among other educational titles produced by WayForward at the time. Some were delivering lunches, and Matt Bozon, for instance, was doing sketches in a Six Flags theme park. During these early years, many of the staff were doing other jobs to live, as the pays were not always enough to support their ambition to become game developers.
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They also began to branch out into educational computer games for PC and Leapster. The company first focused on producing games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Game Gear and Game Boy Color. The name WayForward Technologies may refer to the novel "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", by Douglas Adams, where a character named Gordon Way had founded a company by the same name. He financed WayForward by selling his parts in this company. WayForward Technologies was founded in 1990 by Voldi Way as an independent video game design company, after a previous company of which he was also a co-founder that specialised in software for sheet metal fabrication.
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