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.
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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
- Wheel of Fortune
- Double Dare
- Hollywood Squares
- Jeopardy!
- Jeopardy! Sports Edition
- Press Your Luck
- Quarantine
- Quarantine II: Road Warrior
- Family Feud
- Dark Colony
- American Gladiators
- Frontier: Elite II
- Alien Incident (European version)
- The Humans
- Brutal: Paws of Fury
- Brutal Unleashed: Above the Claw
- Star Crusader (European version)
- Valkyrie (for Macintosh)
- Nomad
- Robotech: Crystal Dreams
- Super Password
- Super Street Fighter II Turbo PC
- Frontier: First Encounters
- Frantic Flea
- NET:Zone
- Daemon's Gate: Volume One, Dorovan's Key
- Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle
- Classic Concentration
- The Price Is Right
- Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing
- Now You See It
- Race Days
- Yogi Bear's Gold Rush
- Full Throttle: All-American Racing
- Jimmy Johnson's VR Football 98
- Zool
References
- Inc, Nielsen Business Media (1994-06-11). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
- Svensson, Christian (November 1996). "Small Publishers Feel Pinch". Next Generation. No. 23. Imagine Media. p. 26.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190709045101/http://api.tenkwizard.com/filing.xml?ipage=350801&DSEQ=1&SEQ=7&SQDESC=SECTION_PAGE&exp=&subsid=57
See also
- Cybersoft (video game company) (GameTek subsidiary)