Gremlin Interactive

Name: Gremlin Interactive Established: 1984 Status: Acquired by Infogrames Submitter: Res Added: May 22 2004

Gremlin Interactive (formerly Gremlin Graphics) was a British software house based in Sheffield and working mostly in the home computer market.

The company was established in 1984 as Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd by Ian Stewart. In 1994 it was renamed as Gremlin Interactive. Gremlin's early success was based on games such as Wanted: Monty Mole for the ZX Spectrum and Thing on a Spring for the Commodore 64. Like many software houses established in the eighties their primary market was the 8-bit range of computers such as the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Commodore 64.

Gremlin Interactive's logo used from 1994–1999Gremlin scored big with the Premier Manager series in the early 1990s, and then with Actua Soccer, the first football game in full 3D, while having success with other games such as the Lotus series, Zool, Motorhead or Hardwar. Following EA's success with the EA Sports brand, Gremlin also released their own sports videogame series, adding Golf, Tennis and Ice Hockey to their Actua Sports series. In 1995, Gremlin also released a stunt car racing game called Fatal Racing.

In 1996 Gremlin acquired DMA Design (creators of Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings).

In 1999, they themselves were bought by Infogrames and renamed "Infogrames Sheffield House", for a reported fee of around £21m, but the studio closed in 2003. The building they occupied has since been demolished.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlin_Interactive

Name	System	Genre
Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge	PC	Racing
Zool	SNES	Adventure
VR Soccer '96 (a.k.a. Actua Soccer)	PC	Sports
Motorhead	PC	Racing
Zool 2	PC	Action
Men in Black: The Game	PC	Action
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf	PC	Action
Re-Loaded	PC	Action
Zool	PC	Action
Normality	PC	Adventure

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