Manley & Associates

Manley & Associates
Industry	Video game developer
Fate	Acquired by Electronic Arts
Successor	EA Seattle
Founded	1982
Defunct	1996
Headquarters	Headquartered in Issaquah, WA
Products	Video games
Number of employees	60 (peak estimate)

Manley & Associates was an independent video game developer founded in 1982, which developed over 70 titles for video game publishers, including Electronic Arts, Activision, Disney, GameTek, Publishing International, and Spectrum Holobyte. Many of the company's early titles were one or two person projects created in founder Ivan Manley's house, but eventually it grew to roughly 60 people working from an office park in Issaquah, Washington. Hometown U.S.A. (Publishing International) won the Software Publishers' Association's award for the Best Creativity Program, Educational Category, 1988.

In the mid-1990s, Manley & Associates did a number of ports for Electronic Arts and was subsequently acquired by EA in 1996. Explaining the decision to sell the company to EA, Ivan Manley said that in order to invest in newer technologies, Manley & Associates had to either become a publisher or merge with an established publisher.[1] The studio was relocated to neighboring Bellevue, Washington and renamed Electronic Arts Seattle.[2] EA Seattle closed in 2002.[3]

Games developed

Console

DinoPark Tycoon (3DO)
King Arthur & the Knights of Justice (SNES)
Paperboy 2 (Game Gear), port only
Pink Goes to Hollywood (SNES)
Super Conflict (SNES)
WildSnake (SNES), port only
The Wizard of Oz (SNES)

Computers

An American Tail: The Computer Adventures of Fievel and His Friends (MS-DOS)
Home Alone 2 (MS-DOS)
Hometown U.S.A. (MS-DOS, Macintosh, Apple II, Apple IIGS, C64, Amiga, FMTowns)
Jeopardy! (MS-DOS, Mac)
Lion (MS-DOS)
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (MS-DOS), port only
Pharaoh's Revenge (Apple II, C64, MS-DOS)
The Third Courier
Wolf (MS-DOS)

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References

"Electronic Arts Acquires Manley". Next Generation. No. 16. Imagine Media. April 1996. p. 23.
Business Wire (1996-01-29). "Electronic Arts Acquires Software Developer Manley & Associates". AllBusiness. Retrieved 2008-04-13.
"Electronic Arts closing Bellevue game studio".

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[1] "Electronic Arts Acquires Manley". Next Generation. No. 16. Imagine Media. April 1996. p. 23.

[allbus-2] Business Wire (1996-01-29). "Electronic Arts Acquires Software Developer Manley & Associates". AllBusiness. Retrieved 2008-04-13.

[3] "Electronic Arts closing Bellevue game studio".