Imagineering (company)

Imagineering, located in Glen Rock, New Jersey, was the in-house studio of Absolute Entertainment. Many notable video games developed for Absolute include "A Boy and his Blob", "Battle Tank", "Super Battletank" and "The Rescue of Princess Blobette". It is also best known for its video games developed for third-party publishers, such as Acclaim Entertainment, Hi Tech Expressions and T*HQ.

In every game Imagineering had produced for outside publishers, the following message always appears in the title screen and in the instruction booklet: "Developed by Imagineering Inc., Glen Rock N.J.". This blatant advertising practice of displaying their hometown in their games is considered a very rare practice among game developers and is probably why this town become famous among video gamers. However, they were not credited in Absolute's video games, as it usually is the case with internal video game development.

Imagineering was folded in 1994 into Absolute, which itself went out of business the following year.

Lineup of games

1988

* "Commando" (Atari 2600)
* "Crossbow" (Commodore 64)
* "Double Dragon" (Atari 2600, Atari 7800)

1989

* "Ikari Warriors" (Atari 2600, Atari 7800)

1990

* "Destination Earthstar" (NES)
* "Ghostbusters II" (NES)

1991

* "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" (NES)
* "" (NES)
* "" (NES)
* "Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly" (Game Boy)
* "Family Feud" (NES)
* "Jeopardy! Featuring Alex Trebek" (NES)

1992

* "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends" (NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, SNES)
* "Bartman Meets Radioactive Man" (NES)
* "Goul School" (NES)
* "Swamp Thing" (NES, Game Boy)

1993

* "Family Dog" (SNES)

External links

* [http://www.mobygames.com/company/imagineering-inc "Imagineering"] profile on MobyGames