SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies
Background
SingleTrac Entertainment Technologies was an American video game developer, mostly for the PlayStation platform. The management team and much of the original development team came from Evans & Sutherland, bringing their 3D graphics and software engineering skills into the video game industry. Its most famous titles were the Twisted Metal and Jet Moto video game series.
The company's first two games, WarHawk and Twisted Metal, were major critical and commercial successes, leading Sony Computer Entertainment to contract two further games from SingleTrac. After producing the two contracted games for SCE, SingleTrac was bought by the video game publisher GT Interactive, and was later closed in 2000. Several employees later formed other companies, including Eat Sleep Play and Incognito Entertainment.
1st Logo (November 5, 1995-October 31, 1996)
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Visuals: On a marble background is the text "SINGLETRAC" wipes in. The plate pans down, and then shooting stars appear, and then a lighting flashes, to make the SingleTrac text rotating and to turn part of the stars red gradient.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: Lighting sounds and whooshes, which was accompanied by a choir theme.
Availability: It was seen on WarHawk, the first two Twisted Metal games and Jet Moto for the PlayStation.
2nd Logo (October 31, 1997-September 6, 2000)
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Visuals: On a black background, the screen pans out to see red lights to form spiral-like objects, which blurs out and then the logo flashes. The text "SINGLETRAC" rotates in letter by letter.
Variant: On Animorphs: Shattered Reality, a 2D still version of the logo exists, and the word "STUDIO" is also added below the logo.
Technique: CGI.
Audio: A majestic triumphant theme, with some whooshing sounds. On Animorphs: Shattered Reality, the logo is silent.
Availability: The normal version is seen on Critical Depth and Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012. The still versions are seen on the games above.
