Davilex Games B.V. was a
video game developer
A video game developer is a broad term for a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large ...
and
video game publisher
A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer.
They often finance the development, sometimes by paying a video game developer ( ...
, located in
Houten
Houten () is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.
Population centres
The municipality consists of the following towns:
* 't Goy
* Houten
* Schalkwijk
* Tull en 't Waal
Houten (town)
The main town in the municipality is ...
,
Utrecht
Utrecht ( , , ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city and a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, pro ...
,
Netherlands
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, subdivision_type = Sovereign state
, subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands
, established_title = Before independence
, established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
. It was founded in 1986 as part of Davilex International, and is most well known for its ''Racer'' franchise, with the games ''London Racer'' and ''London Racer II'' selling over 600,000 copies in the
UK. ''Autobahn Raser''s sales in the German market totaled 103,000 units from January through September 1998, which made it the region's sixth-best-selling computer game during that period.
In February 1999, ''Autobahn Raser''s computer version received a "Gold" award from the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (VUD),
indicating sales of at least 100,000 units across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Davilex closed the game division in 2005 because it was not profitable enough, and their games were generally not well received.
[Lenting, T. (2019), ''Gamegeschiedenis van Nederland 1978-2018''. Karel van Mander Academy: Arnhem, p. 42-43. ]
Games
Davilex Racer series
* ''Autobahn Raser''-series
* ''A2 Racer''-series
* ''Europe Racer''
* ''USA Racer''
* ''Holiday Racer''
* ''London Racer''-series
* ''Grachten Racer''
Other games
* ''AmsterDoom (Amsterdam Monster Madness)''
* ''
Knight Rider: The Game''
* ''Knight Rider: The Game 2''
* ''
Casino Tycoon''
* ''SAS Anti-terror Force''
* ''GIGN Anti-terror Force''
* ''Invasion Deutschland''
* ''Red Baron''
* ''Miami Vice''
* ''Police Chase''
* ''Amsterdam Taxi Madness''
* ''112 Reddingshelikopter'' (''112 Rescue helicopter'')
* ''RedCat'' series
* ''Beach King Stunt Racer''
* ''K 2000: The Game''
* ''Inspecteur Banaan en de ontvoering van Mabella'' (''Inspector Banana and the kidnapping of Mabella'')
References
External links
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Defunct video game companies of the Netherlands
Video game companies established in 1986
Video game companies disestablished in 2005
Companies based in Utrecht (province)
Houten
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