Monkeystone Games was a video game developer

Video game developer

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 and publisher

Video game publisher

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 founded by John Romero

John Romero

Alfonso John Romero is a game designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry. He is best known as a co-founder of id Software and was a designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Doom and Quake...

, Tom Hall

Tom Hall

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, Stevie Case

Stevie Case

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, and Brian Moon. The company's focus was on mobile game

Mobile game

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s. After its inception in July 2001, Monkeystone published several titles on multiple platforms

Platform (computing)

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.

Games

Their first in-house title, Hyperspace Delivery Boy!

Hyperspace Delivery Boy!

Hyperspace Delivery Boy! is the first title released by video game production company Monkeystone Games. A puzzle/action game developed for the Pocket PC and released on December 23, 2001...

was first developed for the Pocket PC

Pocket PC

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 and released on December 23, 2001. The game was then ported to Windows

Microsoft Windows

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, Mac, Linux

Linux

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 and Game Boy Advance

Game Boy Advance

The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China...

, although the Game Boy Advance version was never released. Monkeystone also published titles by third parties such as Argentum, Rocket Elite, Bust Em, Night Shift, and others.

Monkeystone's second in-house title was a puzzler called Congo Cube. They initially developed Congo Cube for Windows, then ported it to the Pocket PC, Java ME

Java Platform, Micro Edition

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 phones, and BREW

Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless

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 phones.

Their third in-house title was a recreation of the PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

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 hit Red Faction

Red Faction

Red Faction is a first-person shooter video game developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ. It was released for the PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows and Mac in 2001. A version for the Nokia N-Gage was developed by Monkeystone Games. The game was also re-developed as a top-down shooter for...

on Nokia

Nokia

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's new gaming deck, N-Gage

N-Gage

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. It was completed in October 2003.

Closure

Brian Moon left Monkeystone sometime in 2002. Stevie Case left Monkeystone in mid-2003. Tom Hall and John Romero left Monkeystone in October 2003 to work at Midway Games

Midway Games

Midway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the...

. One of their colleagues, Lucas Davis, was left to run the day-to-day operations, but the company closed in January 2005.