Lankhor was founded in 1987 as a result of the merger between Kyilkohr creations and Béatrice & Jean-Luc Langlois. Lankhor gained fame with productions such as the arcade game
Wanderer (1987) by the Langlois siblings and, above all, the adventure games
Mortville Manor and
Maupiti Island.
Mortevielle by Gourier and Bernard Grélaud was published for the first time in 1986 on the
Sinclair QL platform, but in the refreshed version of Lankhor (with a new title board and
speech synthesizer) was successful a significant commercial success, repeated by
Maupiti Island. Another commercial success for Lankhor was the racing game
Vroom, simulating the competition during
Formula 1.
Mortevielle,
Maupiti Island and
Vroom were awarded Tilt d'Or statuettes, awarded by the industry magazine
Tilt. The company however experienced a difficult financial situation which started at the end of the same year; this situation led the company to cancel its contract with Video System, a Japanese video game distribution house. At the end of 2001, Lankhor announced its closure which came to pass on October 3, 2002. ==Games==