Tomb Raider (1996 video game)
Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. It was released in 1996 for Sega Saturn, PlayStation and MS-DOS. "Tomb Raider" was released for N-Gage devices in 2003, and for the PlayStation Network in North America in August 2009, and in Europe in August 2010. "Tomb Raider" follows the exploits of Lara Croft, an English archaeologist in search of ancient treasures.
Toby Gard
"Galleon" released nearly 7 years later on Microsoft's Xbox, in 2004, then Gard was hired by Eidos (publisher and copyright holder of the "Tomb Raider" series) to work with Crystal Dynamics on a reboot of the "Tomb Raider" franchise, beginning with "". While initially hired as a creative consultant, his work became "hands on" during the production and eventually included Lara's visual redesign, overseeing character design and creation, co-writing the story, designing and implementing parts of the character movement system, and directing the cinematics.