Zyrinx was a video game developer founded in 1992 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The first game developed by Zyrinx was Subterrania for the Sega Mega Drive

Sega Mega Drive

The Sega Genesis is a fourth-generation video game console developed and produced by Sega. It was originally released in Japan in 1988 as , then in North America in 1989 as Sega Genesis, and in Europe, Australia and other PAL regions in 1990 as Mega Drive. The reason for the two names is that...

. During the development the team relocated to Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

. Later, the team developed the games Red Zone

Red Zone (video game)

Red Zone is a video game developed by Zyrinx and published by Time Warner Interactive in 1994 for the Sega Genesis console.A pre-release version of this game - Hardwired - has been deemed by the developer as publicly distributable....

 and Scorcher

Scorcher (video game)

Scorcher is a futuristic racing video game by now-defunct developer Zyrinx for the PC and the Sega Saturn console.-Setting:Special motorcycles that reach up to 450 km/h race through dangerous tracks in a dystopian year 2021.-Trivia:...

. Zyrinx's 3D rendering technology was showcased in a Sega 32X

Sega 32X

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 promotion video. The team dissolved in 1998 because of their publisher Scavenger

Scavenger, Inc.

Scavenger was a video game publisher working closely with GT Interactive.The company was unique in the sense that most of its development teams were made up of members of the Amiga demoscene, which demonstrated that utilizing the potential of an underground talent pool of highly skilled self-taught...

 went bankrupt.

In 1998, the Zyrinx team reformed under the name Reto-Moto

Reto-Moto

Reto-Moto is a video game developer based in Copenhagen, Denmark.The Reto-Moto development team was originally founded by members of Zyrinx and Lemon in 1998 and was responsible for the creation of IO Interactive and the Hitman series of video games...

 and went on to create IO Interactive

IO Interactive

IO Interactive is a Danish video game development company currently owned by Square Enix. The company was founded in September 1998 by the Reto-Moto development group. To date their most popular franchise is the critically acclaimed Hitman series...

 and the Hitman series of games. In April 2008 the Reto-Moto

Reto-Moto

Reto-Moto is a video game developer based in Copenhagen, Denmark.The Reto-Moto development team was originally founded by members of Zyrinx and Lemon in 1998 and was responsible for the creation of IO Interactive and the Hitman series of video games...

 team announced they had reformed the company and are working on multiplayer focussed games.

An interesting fact about the company is that it consisted exclusively of people who had been active in the Amiga

Amiga

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 demo scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including composer Jesper Kyd

Jesper Kyd

Jesper Jakobson Kyd is a Danish video game and film score composer.Kyd combines sounds of dark ambient, electronic and symphonic music and has won many awards. He is also notable for his early work in the Amiga demoscene, where he composed a large amount of music in his teenage years, in...

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