Lankhor

Lankhor at a Glance

Lankhor operated as a French video game company from its founding in 1987 until it ceased operations in December 2001. The studio emerged from a merger between Kyil khor Creation and Béatrice & Jean-Luc Langlois before closing due to financial difficulties that began at the end of 2000. Their catalog on PlayPile includes 21 games, split evenly between titles they published and those they developed themselves. The company was active across three decades, releasing six games in the 1980s, thirteen in the 1990s, and only two in the 2000s. This output pattern shows a clear decline in production volume as the studio approached its end. The platform focus for Lankhor was heavily weighted toward 16-bit home computers. They released twelve games for the Atari ST/STE and ten for the Amiga, with six titles on the Amstrad CPC and five on DOS. Support for other systems like the Commodore C64, PC Windows, PlayStation, Sega Mega Drive, Super Nintendo, and ZX Spectrum was minimal or non-existent in their top listings. In terms of genre, they leaned heavily into Adventure games with six releases, followed by Racing titles with five. They also produced four Simulator games and four Sport titles. Smaller numbers cover Point-and-click, Strategy, Tactical, Puzzle, Shooter, and Arcade genres. Quality data for the publisher is limited but positive within its small sample size. The average rating across their single rated title on PlayPile is 90 out of 100. This breaks down to one great game and zero titles in the good, mixed, or poor categories. Their highest-rated title is Vroom from 1991, which holds a score of 90/100. Other notable releases include Black Sect (1993), Kawasaki Superbike Challenge (1994), F1 World Grand Prix: 1999 Season (1999), Warm Up! (2000), and Val d'Isère Ski Park Manager (2002). The company is also noted for producing Mortville Manor, which was the first video game to feature speech synthesis during gameplay. Their final years saw a sharp drop in activity, with only two games appearing after 1999 before the studio shut down.

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