Valley Sun Games

History
Valley Sun Games is a Third Party Video Game Company based in Redmond Oregon, The Company was founded by Benton Connors and Morris Waller they both met in Collage in 1987 where they shared a love of Computers and Software and would found Valley Sun Software on April 19th 1988 after buying a Former Theorysonic Storage Facility in Redmond Oregon, The Name of the company was based off the Sun disappearing into the Smith Rock State Park at sunset, They developed their first game on the Layton Mark1 7 named Cannon Fodder which was released on August 1st 1988, The Game sold well so they continued to make games for the Mark1 7 until 1991 when they heard word of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Interested in the console they applied to be a Nintendo Licensee and were accepted, The Company's first game for the system was Center of Conflict which also released for the Mark1 9 (Gameplay similar to Risk), The Game was a success selling around 6.5 Million Copies and was even used in Leadership Classes, In all it was revenue boost for the company now hiring 15 more employees to the 10 already, They would make a couple more games for the system most being Strategy and Puzzle Games like Candy Catch and Missile Inbound, Despite the successes the company was still pretty small, In August of 1996 a deal was signed between Valley Sun Games (At this point they had changed their name) and Warner Bros Interactive where Valley Sun would make games for Warner for a 50% Split of the profits on how much money the game made, The first game developed was Tom & Jerry 64 which received Mixed Reviews which nearly ended the deal with Warner, Luckily the next game they developed and published was Center of Conflict 64 which sold way better than the original with 1.4 Million Copies sold, With regained faith in the company Warner told the company to make a "boxing like" game using Looney Tunes Characters, That game would release as Warner Bros Cartoon Smackdown released in 1999 and would sell 3.1 Million Copies Worldwide, This was followed by their most successful game at the time which was a 3D Platformer named Pork Leg Pig released in December 1999 selling over 10 Million Copies Worldwide, The Final N64 Game they made was Flight Ace 64 which was a flight simulator released in June of 2000 coming with a Flight Stick to more easily control the aircraft in game selling 900,000 Copies, The deal with Warner Bros was ended in 2001 when their original contract expired.

The Decline
Valley Sun Games would begin development on a sequel to Pork Leg Pig under the temporary codename Pork Leg Pig 128, A version of the game was shown off at E3 2002 but due to the Failure of the GameCube and their titles for it the project was cancelled, But at that point the a lot of the company's money had been poured into the project so they couldn't even pay some of their staff for their work, The project's cancellation and the retiring of some key programmers resulted in mass amounts of debt being accumulated. Due to how much money was wasted they didn't have enough money to make a new game so it looked grim for the company's future and the company was deemed as "in ruin".

The Comeback
The company made a comeback though when a small programmer named Alex Marv and a couple others created a prototype using the Nintendo DS Dev Kit so with not a lot of other options the company released Missile Inbound DS a sequel to Missile Inbound releasing on the Nintendo DS on July 15th 2005, It was a surprising Early Third Party success for the Nintendo DS selling 9.2 Million Copies sold, This and a couple more titles including Pork Leg Pig: Island Adventures in 2008 it was able to bring the company out of debt by 2009, The most recent game released is A Valley of Memories which it self is a collection of the games made by the company, Valley Sun Games is usually thought of as a reliable Third Party Developer which makes quality games.