Toby gard biography
Toby Gard - Wikipedia
After signing a deal that would give Toby a paltry one per cent royalty from sales of the Tomb Raider games, he received a cheque for �50,000.
Having fallen foul of big business, Toby left to launch his own company.
He tells BBC News Online more about Lara Croft and what he has in store for video gamers.
What influences helped you create Lara Croft?
I was a fan of movies such as Tank Girl, Indiana Jones and Hard Boiled - the John Woo film. These helped give me the idea for Lara.
Lara Croft - Wikipedia
How did Lara's creation first come to you?
I was a big fan of an old first person game called Ultima Underworld and I wanted to mix that type of game with the sort of polygon characters that were just being showcased in Virtua Fighter.
I thought by mixing that up we could make it a sort of real-time interactive movie and that was basically the concept for Tomb Raider.
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