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Artech Digital Entertainment
Company typePrivate
Founded1982
Defunct2011
FateDisbanded
HeadquartersOttawa, Ontario, Canada
Key people
Rick Banks (co-founder), Paul Butler (co-founder)
Number of employees
60+ (as of 2006)

Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. (stylized as ARTECH studios) was a video game developer formed in 1982 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Also known as Artech Studios, the company developed games such as Raze's Hell, Monopoly, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, and a remake of Q*bert.

The company has developed games for the Colecovision, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Atari computers, Nabu Network, Genesis, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC, and the Xbox 360. They have also developed a series of interactive games designed for standard DVD players.

Artech Studios closed its doors in December 2011.[1]

Game titles

  • Zot!
  • Wiztype
  • MacBeth
  • Skiing!
  • Astro Lander
  • BC Matchup

Windows PC

  • Show Me the Wild
  • Time Troopers
  • Trivial Pursuit: Lord of the Rings
  • Scholastic Read with Me DVD!'
  • Clue
  • Candyland
  • Clifford/Goosebumps/I-Spy
  • Twister Dance

References

  1. ^ "Le studio Canadien Artech a fermé ses portes en Décembre". HardGamers. Retrieved 2012-02-20.