Cryo Interactive Entertainment
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| legal form | SA |
| founding | 1992 |
| resolution | 2002 |
| Reason for dissolution | Insolvency |
| Seat | Paris , France |
| Branch | Computer and video games |
| Website | www.cryo.fr ( Memento of November 27, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) |
Cryo Interactive Entertainment was a French computer game manufacturer and distributor. Cryo was created in 1989 by the Exxos development team from the French game manufacturer ERE Informatique . The company is no longer in business, all projects were transferred to DreamCatcher Interactive (from 2011 Nordic Games Holding, today Embracer Group ).
history
Exxos
Exxos was founded in 1988 by Philippe Ulrich, Rémi Herbulot and Jean-Martial Lefranc as a label of the French game developer ERE Informatique, a subsidiary of the game publisher Infogrames . Three science fiction games were published under this name:
- Captain Blood
- Cult: The Temple of Flying Saucers
- Purple Saturn Day
In 1989, however, the developers left the company to start a new independent studio called Cryo. After operating as a company for two years without official registration, the team finally traded under the name Cryo Interactive Entertainment from 1992 .
Cryo Interactive Entertainment
Cryo was best known for extravagant and unusual game ideas, which, however, did not always pay off financially. One focus of the company was graphic adventures . In July 2002, a few months after the commercially unsuccessful release of the game Frank Herbert's Dune , the company went bankrupt.
In October 2008, Microïds acquired the Cryo brand and heritage. Microïds intended to digitally publish old Cryo games, but also new developments based on Cryo's intellectual property.
Distributed Games
- 3Sixty
- Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure
- Asterix and Obelix Take on Caesar
- China: The Forbidden City
- Pharaoh's tomb
- The curse of the Aztecs
- Dragon Lore 2: The Heart of the Dragon Man
- Dreams to Reality
- Egypt Kids
- fist
- From Dusk Till Dawn
- Gifty, a present from Heaven
- Gore: Ultimate Soldier
- Guardian of Darkness, The
- Pompeii: The Legend of Vesuvius
- Jerusalem - The Holy City
- MegaRace 1 + 2
- Lost Eden
- Open tennis 2000
- Pax Corpus
- Popeye, Hush Rush for Spinach
- River World
- Seven Games of the Soul
- Stealth Combat
- Ubik
- Universal Monsters: Monsterville
- Versailles 2
- Woody Woodpecker
- Zidane Football Generation
- Asterix and Obelix Take on Caesar
- Guardian of Darkness, The
- Versailles
- Frank Herbert's Dune
- Poison
- MegaRace 3
- Popeye, Hush Rush for Spinach
- The Shadow of Zorro
- Versailles 2
- Zidane Soccer Generation
Developed games
- Lost Eden
- KGB
- Dune
- Lost Eden
- Poison
- Roland Garros
DOS / Windows
- Aliens: A Comic Book Adventure
- Atlantis: The Lost Tales
- Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold
- Beyond Atlantis
- Beyond Atlantis II: The New World
- China: The Forbidden City
- The 3rd Millennium
- Deo gratias - The grace of the gods
- Devil Inside
- Dragon Lore 2: The Heart of the Dragon Man
- Dreams to Reality
- Dune
- Egypt Kids
- Poison
- Guardian of Darkness, The
- Hardline
- KGB
- Lost Eden
- MegaRace range
- Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses
- Pax Corpus
- Ring: The Legend of the Nibelungen
- Roland Garros 2001
- Saga: Rage of the Vikings
- Salammbo: Battle for Carthage
- The New Adventures of the Time Machine
- Ubik
- Dreams
- Pax Corpus
- Pink Panther: Pinkadelic Pursuit
- Roland Garros 2001
- Versailles
- Atlantis: The Lost Tales
- China: The Forbidden City
- Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold
- Beyond Atlantis II: The New World
- Atlantis: The Lost Tales
- Timecop
Web links
- Cryo Interactive Entertainment at MobyGames (English)
- Exxos at MobyGames (English)
- Information about Exxos at everything2.com (en)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.pcgames.de/Cryo-Entertainment-FR-Firma-15357/News/Insolvenz-und-Aus-Cryo-existiert-nicht-mehr-65452/
- ↑ Microïds acquires Cryo rights . Microids. October 20, 2008. Retrieved October 27, 2008.
- ↑ Cryo's is reborn through Microïds . Adventure Gamers. October 22, 2008. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 28, 2008.
