GameTek

GameTek was a video game publisher based in North Miami Beach, Florida[1] known for publishing video game adaptations of game shows in the late 1980s and early 1990s. GameTek was a trade name for IJE, the owner of electronic publishing rights to Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. Originally IJE licensed these titles to ShareData of Chandler, Arizona; however, when IJE saw ShareData's success with the titles, IJE decided to publish the titles themselves, resulting in the founding of GameTek.

A newer GameTek logotype

After establishing distribution for the game show titles, GameTek branched out by licensing European titles for the North American market, including Frontier: Elite II and The Humans.

In 1996 GameTek scaled down its publishing activities, turning most of that aspect of its business over to Philips.[2] GameTek filed for bankruptcy in 1997 and closed in July 1998. Most of the company's assets were acquired by Take-Two Interactive in 1997.[3]

Games

References
  1. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (1994-06-11). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
  2. Svensson, Christian (November 1996). "Small Publishers Feel Pinch". Next Generation. No. 23. Imagine Media. p. 26.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20190709045101/http://api.tenkwizard.com/filing.xml?ipage=350801&DSEQ=1&SEQ=7&SQDESC=SECTION_PAGE&exp=&subsid=57

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