Virgin Interactive Entertainment (later renamed Avalon Interactive) was the video game publishing division of British conglomerate the

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. It developed and published games for major platforms and employed developers, including

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co-founder

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and ''

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'' creators David Perry and

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. Others include video game composer

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and animators

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and

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. Formed as Virgin Games in 1983, and built around a small development team called the Gang of Five, the company grew significantly after purchasing budget label

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in 1987. As Virgin's video game division grew into a multimedia powerhouse, it crossed over to other industries from toys to film to education. To highlight its focus beyond video games and on multimedia, the publisher was renamed Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1993. As result of a growing trend throughout the 1990s of media companies, movie studios and telecom firms investing in video game makers to create new forms of entertainment, VIE became part of the entertainment industry after being acquired by media companies

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and

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, who were attracted by its multimedia and

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-based software development. Being located in close proximity to the

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and having access to the media content of its parent companies drew Virgin Interactive's U.S. division closer to Hollywood as it began developing sophisticated interactive games, leading to partnerships with Disney and other major studios on motion picture-based games such as ''

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'', '' Aladdin'', '' RoboCop'' and ''

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'', in addition to being the publisher of popular titles from other companies like

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's ''

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'' series and '' Street Fighter Collection'' and

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's ''

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'' in the European market. VIE ceased to exist in mid-2003 after being acquired by French publisher

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. Titus Interactiv ...

who rebranded them to

Avalon Interactive Virgin Interactive Entertainment (later renamed Avalon Interactive) was the video game publishing division of British conglomerate the Virgin Group. It developed and published games for major platforms and employed developers, including Westwo ...

in July of that year. The VIE library and intellectual properties are owned by

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as a result of its acquisition of Titus. A close affiliate and successor of Spanish origin,

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, was formed in 2002 from the ashes of former Virgin Interactive's Spanish division and kept operating until it folded in 2009.

History

Early history (1983-1987)

Nick Alexander formed Virgin Games in 1983 after leaving

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. It was headquartered in Portobello Road, London. The firm initially relied on submissions by freelancer developers, but set up its own in-house development team in 1984, known as the Gang of Five. Early successes included ''Sorcery'' and '' Dan Dare''. The company expanded with the acquisition of several smaller publishers,

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and Leisure Genius (publishers of the first officially licensed computer versions of ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'').

Purchase of Mastertronic and rebranding to Virgin Mastertronic (1987-1991)

1987 marked a turning point for Virgin after its acquisition of struggling distributor

. Mastertronic had opened its North American headquarters in Irvine,

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just a year earlier to build on its success at home, though growth exhausted its resources after expanding in Europe and acquiring publisher Melbourne House.

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stepped in and offered to buy 45 percent of Mastertronic stake, in exchange Mastertronic joined the Virgin Group. The subsequent merger created Virgin Mastertronic Ltd. in 1988 with Alper as its president which enabled Virgin to expand its business reach overseas. Mastertronic had been the distributor of the Master System in the United Kingdom and is credited with introducing

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to the European market, where they expanded rapidly. The Mastertronic acquisition enabled Virgin to compete with

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in the growing home console market.

Return to publishing (1991-1993)

To gain a foothold in its newly established market, Sega Enterprises, Ltd. acquired Mastertronic in 1991 while Virgin retained a small publishing unit, which was renamed Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1993.

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, who had previously licensed some of its properties to Virgin, bought 15 percent—later increased to 16.2 percent—stake in VIE in August 1993. Hasbro wanted to create titles based on its brands, which included

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and

. The deal cut off competitors like

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and Fisher-Price who were interested in a similar partnership. In late 1993, Virgin Interactive spun off a new company, Virgin Sound and Vision, to focus exclusively on CD-based children's entertainment.

Purchase by Blockbuster Entertainment and Spelling Entertainment (1994-1998)

As more media companies became interested in interactive entertainment,

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, then the world's largest video-store chain, acquired 20 percent of Virgin Interactive Entertainment in January 1994. It acquired 75 percent of VIE's stock later in 1994 and purchased the remaining shares held by Hasbro in an effort to expand beyond its video store base. Hasbro went on to found their own game company,

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the following year. The partnership with Blockbuster ended a year later when Blockbuster sold its stake to

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, at the time being a subsidiary of

. Viacom is the owner of

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and

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, which made Virgin Interactive part of one of the world's largest entertainment companies. Viacom had planned to sell Spelling and buy Virgin Interactive out of Spelling before the sale. While it abandoned the Spelling sale some time ago, the collapse in the games market appears to have killed off any interest in buying Virgin. Blockbuster and Viacom invested heavily in the production of CD-based interactive multimedia—video games featuring sophisticated motion-picture video, stereo sound and computer animation. VIE's headquarters were expanded to include 17 production studios where expensive

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“graphics supercomputers” were used to build increasingly complicated games, eventually becoming one of the five largest U.S.-based video game companies. In 1995, VIE signed a deal with

to publish its titles in Europe, supplanting

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as Capcom's designated European distributor. VIE later published titles released by other companies, such as Hudson Soft.

Re-independence and purchase of US operations by Electronic Arts (1998-1999)

Spelling put its ownership of Virgin up for sale as a public stock offering in 1997, stating that Virgin's financial performance had been disappointing. Since Spelling's purchase of the company, Virgin had lost $14 million in 1995 and was expected to post similar losses for 1996. In 1998, Virgin Interactive's US operations were divested to

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as part of its $122.5 million (£75 million) acquisition of Westwood Studios that same year. Electronic Arts also acquired the Burst Studios development studio, which was renamed to Westwood Pacific by its new owners. The European division though was put out in a majority stake buyout backed by Mark Dyne, who became its Chief Executive Officer in the same year. Tim Chaney, the former Managing Director was named president.

Purchase by Interplay and Titus (1999-2002)

On February 17, 1999,

purchased a 49.9% minority interest in the company, allowing Interplay to distribute Virgin's titles in North America and Virgin distributing Interplay's titles in Europe. In October of that year,

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. Titus Interactiv ...

acquired a 50.1% majority interest in VIE after the company acquired a majority interest in Interplay. In 2001, Titus Software Corporation, the North American division of Titus Interactive, announced a new line of games to be branded under the Virgin Interactive name in North America, which were to be sold at a budget price of $20. These games would be ''

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'', '' Codename: Outbreak'', ''

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'', ''

Jimmy White's Cueball World ''Jimmy White's Cueball World'' is a sports simulation video game published by Virgin Interactive as the sequel to '' Jimmy White's 2: Cueball'', itself a sequel to '' Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker''. The development team once again being led ...

'' and ''Nightstone''. This would be the first time since 1998 that the Virgin Interactive name would be used for publishing in the country, excluding the North American release of '' Jimmy White's 2: Cueball'', which was handled by Bay Area Multimedia.

Acquisition by Titus, sale of Spanish operations, rebranding, and fate (2002-2006)

In early 2002, as part of Titus Interactive's buyout of Interplay's European operations, Interplay's shares in Virgin Interactive were sold to Titus, which made the company a 100% owned subsidiary of Titus Software. Virgin Interactive ceased publishing their own games soon afterwards, and become solely a video game distributor for Titus and Interplay's titles. In June 2002, Titus accepted the MBO (management buyout) of Virgin Interactive's Spanish operations by Tim Chaney but would continue to distribute Titus' titles in the region. With this, the company was out of Titus' hands and was rebranded as

in October of that year. On July 1, 2003, Virgin Interactive's British and French operations were renamed to Avalon Interactive and Avalon France by Titus, respectively. In January 2005, Titus Interactive filed for bankruptcy with €33 million ($43.8 million) debt. Avalon France and all of Titus' French operations were closed down immediately, while the UK branch continued to trade as Titus’ non-French operations were unaffected. Avalon Interactive was eventually closed by May 2006.

Games

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'' (1983) *'' Falcon Patrol II'' (1984) *''Sorcery'' (1984) *'' The Biz'' (1984) *''Strangeloop'' (1985) *'' Doriath'' (1985) *'' Gates of Dawn'' (1985) *'' Hunter Patrol'' (1985) *''Now Games'' compilation series (1985–1988) *'' Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future'' (1986) *''Shogun'' (1986) *''

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'' (1989) *''

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'' (European computer versions) (1990) *'' Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator'' (1990) *'' Supremacy: Your Will Be Done (Overlord)'' (1990) *'' Spot: The Video Game'' (1990) *'' Wonderland'' (1990) *''

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'' (1991) *'' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'' (1991) *''

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'' (1991) *''

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'' (1991) *''

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'' (1991) *''

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'' (American Amiga version) (1992) *''

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'' (American NES version) (1992) *''

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'' (1992) *''

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'' (1992) *''

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'' (1992) *''

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'' (1992) *'' Floor 13'' (1992) *''

Global Gladiators ''Global Gladiators'' is a 1992 platform game published and developed by Virgin Games, originally programmed by David Perry for the Sega Genesis and eventually ported by other Virgin Games teams in Europe to the Master System, Game Gear, and ...

'' (1992) *''

M.C. Kids ''M.C. Kids'' is a 1992 platform video game developed and published by Virgin Interactive. It was initially released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in February 1992 in North America, and by Ocean Software in May 1993 in Europe. As a lice ...

'' (1992) *'' Monopoly Deluxe'' (1992) *'' Jeep Jamboree: Off Road Adventure'' (1992) *''

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'' (1993) *'' Chuck Rock II: Son of Chuck'' (1993) *''Superman: The Man of Steel'' (Europe only) (1993) *''

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'' (1993) *'' Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story'' (1993) *'' Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos'' (1993) *''Reach for the Skies'' (1993) *''

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'' (1993) *''

Cool Spot ''Cool Spot'' is a 1993 platform game developed and published by Virgin Games for the Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was ported by other teams to Master System, Game Gear, Game Boy, Amiga, and MS-DOS in 199 ...

'' (1993) *''

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'' (1993) *''

Super Slam Dunk ''Super Slam Dunk'' is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System basketball video game that was released in 1993. Gameplay The game features 28 fictional teams; 27 of them are based on real cities while the 28th is an all-star team. There is an ex ...

'' (1993) *''

Super Caesars Palace ''Super Caesars Palace'' is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System casino video game centered on Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the follow-up to Virgin's previous Caesars Palace (video game), ''Caesars Palace'' game. ''Super Caesars Pal ...

'' (1993) *''

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'' (1993) *''

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'' (1993) *''

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'' (1993/1994) *''

'' (Sega CD version) (1993) *'' Cannon Fodder 2'' (1994) *'' Doom II: Hell on Earth'' (European PC version only) (1994) *''

'' (Europe only) (1994) *''

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'' (America only) (1994) *''

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'' (Europe only) (1994) *'' Beneath a Steel Sky'' (1994) *'' Walt Disney's The Jungle Book'' (1994) *'' Dynamaite: The Las Vegas'' (1994) *''

'' (1994) *'' Demolition Man'' (1994) *''Battle Jockey'' (1994) *'' The 11th Hour'' (1995) *'' Creature Shock'' (1995) *''

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'' (Europe only) (1995) *''

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'' (American Mega Drive/Genesis version published by

) (1995) *'' Cyberia 2: Resurrection'' (1995) *''

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'' (1995) *'' F1 Challenge'' (1995) *'' Flight Unlimited'' (1995) *'' Hyper 3-D Pinball'' (1995) *'' SuperKarts'' (1995) *''

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'' (1995) *''

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'' (1995) *''

Lost Eden ''Lost Eden'' is an adventure game developed by Cryo and published by Virgin Interactive in March 1995 for MS-DOS, Macintosh, 3DO, and CD-i. It is set in a world where humans and dinosaurs coexist. Plot Adam, prince of Mo, has grown up in an ...

'' (1995) *''

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'' (1995) *''

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'' (1995) *'' Gurume Sentai Barayarō'' (1995) *'' World Masters Golf'' (1995) *'' Rendering Ranger: R2'' (1995) *'' Agile Warrior F-111X'' (1995) *''Lone Soldier'' (Japan only) (1996) *'' The Mask'' (Japan only) (1996) *''

'' (Europe and PC versions only) (1996) *''

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'' (Europe/Japan) (1996) *'' NHL Powerplay '96'' (1996) *''

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'' (Europe only) (1996) *'' Time Commando'' (Japan only) (1996) *'' Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars'' (1996) *'' Command & Conquer: Red Alert'' (1996) *''

Disney's Pinocchio Pinocchio is the boy-puppet from the 1883 novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio may also refer to: Film and television productions and characters * ''Pinocchio'' (1940 film), the Walt Disney Animati ...

'' (1996) *'' Queensrÿche's Promised Land'' (1996) *''

Toonstruck ''Toonstruck'' is a graphic adventure video game developed by Burst Studios, published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and released in 1996 for DOS. In the game, a live-action protagonist Drew Blanc, played and voiced by Christopher Lloyd, i ...

'' (1996) *'' Slamscape'' (European PS1 version) (1996) *'' Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo'' (PS1 and Saturn versions, Europe only) (1996) *'' Golden Nugget'' (1997) *''

Grand Slam Grand Slam most often refers to: * Grand Slam (tennis), one player or pair winning all four major annual tournaments, or the tournaments themselves Grand Slam or Grand slam may also refer to: Games and sports * Grand slam, winning category te ...

'' (1997) *'' Subspace'' (1997) *''

Agent Armstrong ''Agent Armstrong'' is a platform game for PlayStation (console), PlayStation and Microsoft Windows developed by King of the Jungle and published by Virgin Interactive. Plot In 1935, the Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service's mo ...

'' (1997) *'' Black Dawn'' (1997) *'' Blam! Machinehead'' (Japan only) (1997) *''

CrimeWave ''Crimewave'' is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Sam Raimi, from a screenplay he co-wrote with the Coen brothers. It stars Reed Birney, Sheree J. Wilson, Paul L. Smith, Brion James, Louise Lasser and Bruce Campbell, with the latter a ...

'' (Japan only) (1997) *'' Marvel Super Heroes'' (Europe only) (1997) *''

NanoTek Warrior ''NanoTek Warrior'' is a tube shooter game developed by American studio Tetragon Inc. and released by Virgin Interactive in 1997. Gameplay NanoTek Warrior uses behind the ship perspective. There is a total of eight levels in the game. Each lev ...

'' (1997) *'' Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny'' (1997) *'' Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror'' (1997) *''

Mega Man X3 ''Mega Man X3'' (stylized as ''MEGA MAN X³''), known as in Japan, is a video game released by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The game was originally released in Japan on December 1, 1995, and later in North American ...

'' (PS1 and Saturn versions, Europe only) (1997) *'' NHL Powerplay '98'' (1997) *'' Sabre Ace: Conflict Over Korea'' (1997) *''

Ignition Ignition may refer to: Science and technology * Firelighting, the human act of creating a fire for warmth, cooking and other uses * Combustion, an exothermic chemical reaction between a fuel and an oxidant * Fusion ignition, the point at which a ...

'' (1997) *'' Bloody Roar'' (Europe only) (1998) *''

Magic & Mayhem ''Magic & Mayhem'' (working title: ''Duel: The Mage Wars''), known in Europe as ''Mana'', is a fantasy/mythology-themed real-time strategy game designed by Julian Gollop and developed by Mythos Games. It was published by Virgin Interactive Entert ...

'' (Europe only) (1998) *'' R-Types'' (Europe only) (1998) *'' Rival Schools: United by Fate'' (Europe only) (1998) *''

Resident Evil 2 ''Resident Evil 2'' is a 1998 survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation (console), PlayStation. The player controls Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield, who must escape Raccoon City after its citizens a ...

'' (Europe only) (1998) *''

Street Fighter Collection 2 is a series of five video game compilations produced by Capcom for PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Each volume contains three or four games from a particular series or game genre and were ported directly from their original arcade versions (with ...