Showing posts with label virgin interactive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virgin interactive. Show all posts
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Gaming Ads: Westwood Studios
Westwood Associates was founded in 1985 and based in Las Vegas. It was renamed Westwood Studios in 1992 when it became part of Virgin Games. As I just wrote last week in the Virgin Games/Interactive post, Electronic Arts acquired Virgin Interactive's U.S. operations in 1998 and that included Westwood Studios. The developer was closed in 1993 shortly after merging with EA Pacific to become EA Los Angeles. While Westwood developed a variety of games, it's best known for its strategy games, such as Dune II and the Command & Conquer series.I'm not positive which company is responsible for all the ads; some might be from Virgin Games and you can see more of Westwood's game ads in that album.
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Gaming Ads: Virgin Games/Interactive
Virgin Group Ltd. is a British company founded by Richard Branson and Nik Powell in 1970, and Virgin Games was established in 1983. It began as a developer and publisher of computer games, and expanded quite a bit in 1987 after acquiring Mastertronic, a budget publisher that was also a distributor of the Sega Master System in the U.K. Virgin Mastertronic was formed and from there increased its distribution agreement with Sega into parts of mainland Europe, and also distributed the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis). In 1993 the company became Virgin Interactive Entertainment, though the Virgin Games name was still used for some of its development studios.
Following a management buyout in 1998, Virgin Interactive broke away from Virgin Group and was dismantled. Its U.S. operations were sold to Electronic Arts and the French company Titus Software purchased the company's assets in 1999. For the most part that was the end of Virgin Games, however, there was a Virgin brand in Spain until 2009. Most of the ads do say Virgin Games but some say Virgin Interactive or Virgin Mastertronic. Also, there is some overlap with Westwood Studios which I'll be posting next week. It's difficult to say which company is responsible for some of those ads so I've got a few here and a few under Westwood.
Following a management buyout in 1998, Virgin Interactive broke away from Virgin Group and was dismantled. Its U.S. operations were sold to Electronic Arts and the French company Titus Software purchased the company's assets in 1999. For the most part that was the end of Virgin Games, however, there was a Virgin brand in Spain until 2009. Most of the ads do say Virgin Games but some say Virgin Interactive or Virgin Mastertronic. Also, there is some overlap with Westwood Studios which I'll be posting next week. It's difficult to say which company is responsible for some of those ads so I've got a few here and a few under Westwood.
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