- GameTek
GameTek was a computer game and video game publisher based out of
North Miami Beach, Florida well known for publishing video game adaptations forgame shows during the early 1990s. GameTek was a trade name for IJE, the owner of electronic publishing rights to "Jeopardy! " and "Wheel of Fortune." Originally IJE licensed these titles to ShareData ofChandler, Arizona ; but when IJE saw ShareData's success with the titles, IJE decided to publish the titles themselves and GameTek was born.After establishing distribution for the game show titles, GameTek branched out by licensing
Europe an titles for theNorth America n market including "" andThe Humans .GameTek titles include:
*"Wheel of Fortune"
*"Double Dare"
*"Hollywood Squares"
*"Jeopardy!"
*"Quarantine"
*"Family Feud"
*"Dark Colony "
*"American Gladiators"
*""
*"The Humans "
*""
*"Star Crusader " (European version)
*"Valkyrie (for Macintosh) "
*"Nomad"GameTek filed for
bankruptcy in 1997 and closed its doors in July 1998. Some of the company's assets were acquired byTake 2 Interactive in 1997.They also produced for the Nintendo 64. It was never released and was thought to be the reason for the closure.
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