Incredible Technologies

Background

Incredible Technologies was a video game company that was founded in 1985 by former Action Graphics employees Elaine Hodgson and Richard Ditton as Free Radical Software, before eventually settling on its current name in 1987. Its best known products are the Golden Tee Golf games.

1st Logo (1987-1998)

Visuals: Over the game's credits, there is a blue box with the 3D stylized silver letters "iT", with a dot hanging over the letters. Above and below it was the text "INCREDIBLE" and "TECHNOLOGIES" in a serif font.

Variant:

Sometimes, the logo was used as a standalone logo, with a copyright info on the bottom.
Sometimes, the logo is in print.
An enhanced version existed in the late 1990s.

Technique: None.

Audio: None, or the opening theme of the game.

Availability: Seen on any Incredible Technologies game from the period, like Time Killers, the Golden Tee Golf series, the arcade versions of Wheel of Fortune and Street Fighter: The Movie, and the NES version of American Gladiators, among others.

2nd Logo (1998- )

Visuals: On a gold background, there is the text "it", with a gold dot hanging above the letters, and below it was the text "incredible TECHNOLOGIES" with lights shown over the background.

Variant: An animated version exists where a golf ball is hanging on a golf course, and it hits the hole, as the logo flashes, and the golf turns into a gold sphere as the letters pan down from the bottom, and then the light flashes, and the logo plays as normal as the company name wipes in.

Technique: None. CGI for the variant.

Audio: None. For the animated version, a cracking sound, and then a thunderclap, followed by a piano theme at the end, with some chimes.

Availability: The animated logo was seen on Peter Jacobsen's Golden Tee Golf for the PlayStation. The still version was used on a lot of Wii, iOS and arcade games, like the Golden Tee Golf series and the Wii games of Target Toss Pro: Bags, Target Toss Pro: Lawn Darts and Carnival King.