Time Warner Interactive

For WarnerMedia's current video game publishing division, see Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

Not to be confused with Atari Corporation.

Time Warner Interactive

Company type	Division of Time Warner
Industry	Video games
Founded	June 23, 1993 (1993-06-23) (as Time Warner Consumer Products)
Defunct	March 29, 1996 (1996-03-29) (North America) November 1996 (1996-11) (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	2210 West Olive Avenue, Burbank, CA 91506 , U.S.
Products	Primal Rage Rise of the Robots T-MEK
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, 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).

List of games

Release Date	Title	Platform	Developer	Publisher
1993	Fire Power 2000	Sega Genesis		N
1993	Batman Returns	Sega CD		N
1994	T-MEK	Arcade, Sega 32X		N
1994	Dick Vitale's "Awesome, Baby!" College Hoops	Sega Genesis	N	N
1994	Generations Lost	Sega Genesis		N
1994	The Lawnmower Man	Sega Genesis, Sega CD		N
1994	Red Zone	Sega Genesis		N
1994	Rise of the Robots	Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS, Sega Genesis, SNES, Game Gear, 3DO, CD-i, Arcade		N
1994	Chuck Jones' Peter and the Wolf	PC		N
1994	R.B.I. Baseball '94	Game Gear		N
1994	R.B.I. Baseball '95	32X	N	N
1994	Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth	Sega Saturn, PlayStation	N	N
1995	Cheese Cat-astrophe starring Speedy Gonzalez	Game Gear, Master System		N
1995	Virtua Racing	Sega Saturn		N
1995	Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars	Sega Genesis, Super NES	N	N
1995	Primal Rage	PlayStation		N
1995	Race Drivin'	Sega Saturn	N	N
1995	Hoop it Up World Tour 3 on 3 the Game	Arcade		N
1996	Return Fire	PlayStation		N
1997	Shinrei Jusatsushi Tarōmaru	Sega Saturn	N	N

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