Sixteen Tons Entertainment is a German computer game developer company based in Tübingen and Berlin, which emerged from the brand label of the Tübingen game developer Promotion Software. The company was founded in 1993 by

Ralph Stock Ralph Stock (born 1969) is a German game designer. He is best known for his video games Mad TV (video game), ''Mad TV'' and Emergency (video game series), ''Emergency''. Life and career Early years (1977–1992) Around 1977, Ralph Stock stum ...

. Sixteen Tons Entertainment became known through the

Emergency An emergency is an urgent, unexpected, and usually dangerous situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or environment and requires immediate action. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening ...

series and Mad TV.

History

Sixteen Tons Entertainment was originally a brand label of the Tübingen company Promotion Software. In the 1990s, advertising adventures were developed in the studio, as well as indirect successors to the strategy game Mad TV (Caribbean Disaster , Mad News) and Hurra Germany, a game for the 1994 federal election. In 1998, Emergency was released, the first in a series of real-time strategy games. Further successors to the game series followed until 2017, for the PC and mobile platforms. In 2018, Emergency HQ, the first free-to-play game for the series, was released. Between 2004 and 2009 board game conversions to games by Reiner Knizia (Keltis , Simply Genial) and educational software for children to the Willi-wills-wissen television series followed. In 2009 a second studio was founded in Babelsberg near Potsdam . The Potsdam studio moved to Berlin in 2017. On January 15, 2020, it was announced that Sixteen Tons Entertainment was taken over by Phoenix Games. Founder Ralph Stock will remain managing director of the company.

Development Studios

* Sixteen Tons Studio Tübingen, Gründungsstudio * Sixteen Tons Studio Berlin (formed in 2009)

Games

series: ** Emergency: Fighters for Life ** Emergency 2: The Ultimate Fight for Life ** Emergency 3: Mission Life ** Emergency 4: Global Fighters for Life **

Emergency 5 ''Emergency 5'' is the fifth game and the final installment in the ''Emergency'' series, published in 2014 for Windows and macOS. Reception The reception of ''Emergency 5'' was mixed. On Metacritic it has a score of 53 out of 100 based on review ...

Emergency Police An emergency is an urgent, unexpected, and usually dangerous situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or environment and requires immediate action. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening ...

** Emergency 2012: Die Welt am Abgrund **

Emergency 2013 ''Emergency'' is a series of real-time strategy simulation video games by German developer Sixteen Tons Entertainment, designed by Ralph Stock. In the games, players control Emergency service, emergency services—namely police, Fire department, f ...

Emergency 2014 An emergency is an urgent, unexpected, and usually dangerous situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or Natural environment, environment and requires immediate action. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to ...

Emergency 2016 An emergency is an urgent, unexpected, and usually dangerous situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or environment and requires immediate action. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening ...

** Emergency 2017 **

Emergency 20 An emergency is an urgent, unexpected, and usually dangerous situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property, or environment and requires immediate action. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening ...

** Emergency DS ** Emergency HQ *

Caribbean Disaster The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...

* Hurra Deutschland *

Mad News Mad, mad, or MAD may refer to: Geography * Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia * Mád, a village in Hungary * Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, by IATA airport code * Mad River (disambiguation), several ...

** Mad News – Extrablatt *

Mad TV ''Mad TV'' (stylized as ''MADtv'') is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by '' Mad'' magazine. In its initial run, it aired on Fox from 1995 to 2009. After a one-off reunion show in 2015 to celebrate the twentie ...

* Der Stein der Weisen * The Show (2007) * Ben Hur Live – Das legendäre Wagenrennen * Einfach Genial 2.0 * Keltis: Der Weg der Steine *

Gotcha! Extreme Paintball ''Gotcha! Extreme Paintball'' (also known as ''Gotcha!'' in Europe) is a first-person shooter, first person paintball video game developed by Sixteen Tons Entertainment and published by Gathering of Developers, Gathering. The game was produced by ...

Willi wills wissen Willi wills wissen (German for "Willi wants to know it") was a children's program focused on factual issues and everyday occurrences, produced by Megaherz Film und Fernsehen on behalf of the Bayerischer Rundfunk with the Institut für Film und ...

series: ** Willi wills wissen: Feuerwehr im Einsatz ** Willi wills wissen: Notruf Retter im Einsatz ** Willi wills wissen: SOS – Rettung auf See ** Willi wills wissen: Bei den Wikingern ** Willi und die Wunder dieser Welt – Expedition 1: Megacity & Dschungel ** Willi und die Wunder dieser Welt – Expedition 2: Arktis & Wüste

References

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External links

Official Website

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