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
Gard left Core Design in 1997. With "Tomb Raider" already an established hit, Core was no longer giving Gard the creative freedom he originally had. In the end he was given the choice of making a "Tomb Raider" port for the Nintendo 64, or working on Core's vision for "Tomb Raider II". Neither option appealed to him, so he left the company. Gard had been headhunted by other software companies including Interplay and Shiny Entertainment (which prematurely announced that it had hired Gard) but did not take up their offers of employment.