Absolute Entertainment
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| Absolute Entertainment | ||||
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| Founded: 1986-08-19[1] | ||||
| Defunct: 1995-11[1] | ||||
| T-series code: T-86 | ||||
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Absolute Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game publisher and affiliate of closely-related developer Imagineering.
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Company
Absolute Entertainment was based in Glen Rock, New Jersey and later in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Through its sister company Imagineering, Absolute Entertainment produced titles for the Amiga, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Sega Game Gear, Sega Mega Drive, Sega CD, Game Boy, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game consoles, as well as for the PC. It also released games for the Sega Master System in Europe.
The company was formed in 1986 by former Activision employees Dan and Garry Kitchen, Alex Demeo, John Van Ryzin and David Crane. While the company was based in New Jersey, Crane worked out of his home on the West Coast. The company's name was chosen because it was alphabetically above Activision, implying that Absolute Entertainment was superior to Activision (it was the same strategy that Activision chose when the programmers left Atari). The company saw a number of badly received titles towards 1995, and after a series of failures in video game sales, the founding fathers finally pulled the plug on Absolute Entertainment the November of that year. Most staff migrated to Crane and Kitchen's newly-established Skyworks Technologies, founded that same month.
Softography
Master System
- R.C. Grand Prix (1989)
Mega Drive
- Garry Kitchen's Super Battletank: War in the Gulf (1992)
- Toys (1993)
- David Crane's Amazing Tennis (1993)
- The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (1993)
- Goofy's Hysterical History Tour (1994)
- Home Improvement (unreleased)
- Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors (unreleased)
- Turn and Burn: No-Fly Zone (unreleased)
Game Gear
- R.C. Grand Prix (1993)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Advanced Holodeck Tutorial (1994)
- Star Trek Generations: Beyond the Nexus (1994)
- Garry Kitchen's Super Battletank: War in the Gulf (2001)
Mega-CD
- A/X-101 (1994)
- Wheel of Fortune (1994)
- Jeopardy! (1994)
- RDF: Global Conflict (1994)
- Battletech: Gray Death Legion (unreleased)
- Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors (unreleased)
- Super Battletank 2 (unreleased)
Saturn
- Battletech: Gray Death Legion (unreleased)