Interplay Entertainment

Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game and computer game publisher and developer, founded in Southern California in 1983 as Interplay Productions. The company made a name for itself as a quality computer game developer with the role-playing games Wasteland and The Bard's Tale, which were published by Electronic Arts.

In 1988, Interplay started publishing its own games, starting with Neuromancer and Battle Chess, and then moved on to publish and distribute games from other companies, whilst continuing internal game development. In 1993, Interplay published the hit game Descent, developed by startup Parallax Software.

In 1997, Interplay developed and released Fallout, a successful and critically-acclaimed role-playing game set in a retro-futuristic post-apocalyptic setting which was followed by a sequel, Fallout 2. However, the most successful subsequent Interplay franchise was Baldur's Gate, a Dungeons & Dragons game developed by BioWare and published under Interplay's Black Isle Studios brand, which spawned a successful sequel and several expansion packs.

Although Interplay's most successful titles were PC games, the company also published a few notable console games, such as Rock 'N Roll Racing, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, ClayFighter and The Lost Vikings; however, Interplay was never quite able to establish a long-lasting console franchise.

From 1998 the company began to report losses, and in 2002, Interplay shed most of its publisher functions and signed a long-term agreement by which Vivendi Universal would publish Interplay's games. Immediately afterwards, French publisher Titus Interactive completed its acquisition of majority control of the company, and founder Brian Fargo departed.

Notable Games

• Alone in the Dark - developed by I-Motion
• Another World - developed by Delphine Software
• Atomic Bomberman
• Baldur's Gate - developed by BioWare
• Bard's Tale
• Battle Chess
• Blackthorne - developed by Blizzard Entertainment
• Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space
• Castles
• Castles II: Siege and Conquest
• Clayfighter
• Clayfighter 63 1/3
• Clayfigher: The Sculpters Cut
• Conquest of the New World
• Descent - developed by Parallax Software
• Descent: FreeSpace - developed by Volition
• Die by the Sword
• Draconus: Cult of the Wyrm - licensed by Sega
• Dragon Wars
• Dungeon Master II
• Dragon Wars
• Evolva - developed by Computer Artworks
• Fallout - RPG, internally developed
• Forgotten Realms Archives
• FreeSpace 2 - sequel to Descent: FreeSpace, developed by Volition
• Hardwar
• Kingpin: Life of Crime - developed by Xatrix
• Learn to Program BASIC
• Lexi-cross
• Mario Teaches Typing - licensed by Nintendo
• Mario's Game Gallery
• M.A.X.
• M.A.X. 2
• Neuromancer
• Planescape: Torment
• The Lost Vikings - developed by Blizzard Entertainment
• Redneck Rampage - developed by Xatrix
• Reloaded
• Rock 'N Roll Racing - developed by Blizzard Entertainment
• Sacrifice - developed by Shiny Entertainment
• SimCity Enhanced
• Star Reach
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
• Star Trek: Judgment Rites
• Star Trek: Klingon Academy
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
• Stonekeep
• Virtual Pool - developed by Celeris
• Wasteland
• Whiplash (also known as Fatal Racing)
• Wild 9 - developed by Shiny Entertainment
• Y2K: The Game