Time Warner Interactive
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Type | Division of Time Warner |
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Industry | Video games |
Predecessor | TENGEN |
Founded | June 23, 1993 | (as Time Warner Consumer Products)
Defunct | March 29, 1996(North America) November 1996 (Europe) |
Fate | Sold to Williams and absorbed into Williams Entertainment. Atari Games transferred to Midway Manufacturing Europe operations acquired by GT Interactive. |
Successor | Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (North America) GT Interactive (Europe) |
Headquarters | , |
Products | |
Parent | Time Warner |
Subsidiaries | Atari Games |
Time Warner Interactive (Group) (TWI) was a studio within Time Warner which developed video games. It was formed in 1993 after Time Warner bought a controlling interest in Atari Games, and was active until 1996 when WMS Industries, the owners of the Williams, Bally and Midway arcade brands, bought the company.
This studio was previously known as Tengen, the consumer division of Atari Games. Atari Games would continue to operate under its own name until March 29, 1996, when both it and Time Warner Interactive were bought by WMS Industries and was subsequently absorbed into Williams Entertainment (later renamed Midway Home Entertainment), while Atari Games became part of Midway, and eventually was renamed Midway Games West in 1999.
Time Warner Interactive, was responsible for games, such as Rise of the Robots, Primal Rage and T-MEK.
Time Warner also bought the UK publisher Renegade Software in 1995 and kept it independent as Warner Interactive Entertainment, before merged with the European arm of TWI in 1996. Both subsidiaries were short-lived; Time Warner Interactive was formed from the Atari Games acquisition in 1993 and sold to WMS Industries on March 29, 1996,[3] while Time Warner Interactive Japan dissolved in the same year due to WMS not seeing the merit of having a Japanese division in Japan due to how very costly it is for Midway to have a Japanese video game studio in their hands in Lost Decade situation, and European division of Time Warner Interactive (including Renegade Software) existed only two years before being sold to GT Interactive in November 1996 (GT Interactive are best known for distribution of Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D, and Quake as shareware).[4]
List of games[]
Release Date | Title | Platform | Developer | Publisher |
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1993 | Fire Power 2000 | Sega Genesis | ![]() | |
1993 | Batman Returns | Sega CD | ![]() | |
1994 | T-MEK | Arcade, Sega 32X | ![]() | |
1994 | Dick Vitale's "Awesome, Baby!" College Hoops | Sega Genesis | ![]() |
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1994 | Generations Lost | Sega Genesis | ![]() | |
1994 | The Lawnmower Man | Sega Genesis, Sega CD | ![]() | |
1994 | Red Zone | Sega Genesis | ![]() | |
1994 | Rise of the Robots | Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS, Sega Genesis, SNES, Game Gear, 3DO, CD-i, Arcade | ![]() | |
1994 | Chuck Jones' Peter and the Wolf | PC | ![]() | |
1994 | R.B.I. Baseball '94 | Game Gear | ![]() | |
1994 | R.B.I. Baseball '95 | 32X | ![]() |
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1994 | Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth | Sega Saturn, PlayStation | ![]() |
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1995 | Cheese Cat-astrophe starring Speedy Gonzalez | Game Gear, Master System | ![]() | |
1995 | Virtua Racing | Sega Saturn | ![]() | |
1995 | Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars | Sega Genesis, Super NES | ![]() |
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1995 | Primal Rage | PlayStation | ![]() | |
1995 | Race Drivin' | Sega Saturn | ![]() |
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1995 | Hoop it Up World Tour 3 on 3 the Game | Arcade | ![]() | |
1996 | Return Fire | PlayStation | ![]() | |
1997 | Shinrei Jusatsushi Tarōmaru | Sega Saturn | ![]() |
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References[]
- ^ "Primal Rage - PC Review". Coming Soon Magazine. 1995. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
- ^ Peter and the Wolf cover of instructions booklet
- ^ Webb, Marcus (June 1996). "WMS Acquires Time Warner/Atari Games". Next Generation. No. 18. Imagine Media. p. 26.
- ^ SEC Info - Atari Inc - 10-Q - For 6/30/97
External links[]
- Midway Games West Inc. on MobyGames (includes the history as Time Warner Interactive Inc.)
- Time Warner Interactive Inc. on MobyGames
- Warner Interactive Entertainment Ltd. on MobyGames
- Video game publishers
- Video game companies established in 1993
- Video game companies disestablished in 1996
- Defunct video game companies of the United States
- Video game development companies