| Gremlin Interactive | |
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| Defunct | |
| 1984 | |
| Sheffield, UK | |
| Ian Stewart (Founder, Sales & Marketing) Kevin Norburn (Founder, Finance Director) Antony Crowther (Company Director) Geoff Brown (Managing Director) | |
| Computer and video games | |
| Actua Soccer Normality Premier Manager Realms of the Haunting | |
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Gremlin Interactive was a British software house based in Sheffield and working mostly in the home computer market. The company was established in 1984 as Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd. and renamed in 1994. Gremlin's early success was based on games like Monty on the Run and Thing on a Spring. Their primary market then was 8-bit computers like the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64.
Gremlin scored big with the Premier Manager series in the early 1990s, and then with Actua Soccer, the first football game in full 3D, while having success with other games such as the Lotus series, Zool, Motorhead or Hardwar. Following EA's success with the EA Sports brand, Gremlin also released their own sports videogame series, adding Golf, Tennis and Ice Hockey to their Actua Sports series. In 1995 Gremlin also released a stunt car racing game called Fatal Racing.
In 1996 Gremlin acquired DMA Design (creators of Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings).
Gremlin's titles were published in the United States by Interplay. In the UK, Gremlin distributed directly to large multiples while in Europe, the company sourced individual territory distribution deals on a product by product basis whilst still retaining Funsoft as its default distributor. In December 1997, the company signed a new publishing deal for its Actua Sports series and two non-sports titles with Fox Interactive.
In 1999 they themselves were bought by French publisher Infogrames and renamed "Infogrames Sheffield House", for a reported fee of around £21m, but the studio closed in 2003. The building they occupied has since been demolished.
Links[]
- Gremlin Studio Tour, from PC Spiel issue 11/95, featuring Realms of the Haunting, Normality (Inc.), Loaded, Fatal Racing. Kudos to Idrachod2 for uploading the video!
- Gremlin Digital Video, information on the video format developed by Gremlin.
- Product Range Brochure from 1996, courtesy of the Gremlin Archive, provided by the unofficial RotH website
- Gremlin Interactive website mirror for Realms of the Haunting, provided by the unofficial RotH website
List of Developed Games[]
| Amiga | Amiga CD32 | Amstrad/Schneider CPC | Arcade |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Bit Hit Machine Compilation | Litil Divil | Impossamole | Depthcharge |
| Axel's Magic Hammer | Zool 2 | Frogger | |
| Harlequin | Head On | ||
| Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge | |||
| Plan 9 From Outer Space | |||
| Skidz | |||
| Space Crusade | |||
| Space Crusade: The Voyage Beyond | |||
| Super Cars | |||
| Switchblade | |||
| Switchblade 2 | |||
| Zool 2 | |||
| Zool: Ninja of the "Nth" Dimension | |||
| Atari ST | CD-i | Commodore 64/128 | Game Boy |
| Plan 9 From Outer Space | Litil Divil | Cosmic Causeway: Trailblazer II | Brainbender |
| Deflektor | Zool: Ninja of the "Nth" Dimension | ||
| MASK | |||
| MASK II | |||
| MASK III: VEnom Strikes Back | |||
| Trailblazer | |||
| Game Gear | Genesis | Jaguar | Lynx |
| Zool: Ninja of the "Nth" Dimension | Lotus Turbo Challenge | Zool 2 | Switchblade |
| Newman Haas' Indy Car featuring Nigel Mansell | |||
| Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing | |||
| Premier Manager | |||
| Premier Manager '97 | |||
| Zool: Ninja of the "Nth" Dimension | |||
| Macintosh | Nintendo 64 | PC | PlayStation |
| VR Soccer | Actua Golf 4 | Actua Ice Hockey | Actua Golf |
| Premier Manager 64 | Actua Soccer | Actua Golf 2 | |
| Actua Soccer 2 | Actua Golf 3 | ||
| Actua Soccer 3 | Actua Ice Hockey | ||
| Actua Tennis | Actua Ice Hockey 2 | ||
| Buggy | Actua Soccer | ||
| FOX Sports Soccer 99 | Actua Soccer 2 | ||
| FOX Sports Golf 99 | Buggy | ||
| Hard Core 4x4 | FOX Sports Golf 99 | ||
| Hardwar | FOX Sports Soccer 99 | ||
| Litil Divil | Gekido | ||
| Motorhead | Judge Dredd | ||
| Normality | Loaded | ||
| Plan 9 From Outer Space | Monopoly | ||
| Premier Manager | Motorhead | ||
| Premier Manager 97 | N2O: Nitrous Oxide | ||
| Premier Manager 98 | Premier Manager 99: Total Football Managment | ||
| Premier Manager 99: Total Football Managment | Re-Loaded: The Hardcore Sequel | ||
| Realms of the Haunting | TNN Motorsports Hardcore 2 | ||
| Re-Loaded: The Hardcore Sequel | Team Losi RC Racer | ||
| Sand Warriors | |||
| Tribal Lore | |||
| Virtual Tennis | |||
| Whiplash | |||
| Zool 2 | |||
| Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension | |||
| Saturn | Sinclair ZX Spectrum | Super NES | TurboGrafx-16 |
| Actua Soccer | Impossamole | Zool: Ninja of the "Nth" Dimension | Impossamole |
| Loaded | |||
| UEFA Euro 96 England |