GTE Interactive Media

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Started in 1990 [1], GTE Interactive Media was a Carlsbad, California-based division of GTE Vantage, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the telecom GTE Corporation. Products were published under the GTE Entertainment label. [2] Prior to being renamed in 1994, GTE Interactive Media was known as GTE ImagiTrek and was primarily a research and development operation, also performing contract work for other product developers under non-disclosure agreements. [3] GTE-IM shut down on March 14, 1997. [4]

In addition to the games listed below, GTE-IM developed and published educational software and other interactive multimedia products.

Optic Moon appears to have been a GTE ImagiTrek label. [5]

Research Methods: Actual mentions, online resources, shared credits

3DO

  • Jammit (US Publisher: GTE Entertainment)

Arcade

  • Time Traveler (Sega) [6]

DOS

  • Jammit (US Publisher: GTE Entertainment)
  • NCAA Championship Basketball (US Publisher: GTE Entertainment)
Online Programming Conversion: Junglevision Software [7]

Macintosh

  • Timelapse (US Publisher: Hammerhead Entertainment)
Additional Development ("helped complete" [8]): Cyberflix

Mega CD/Sega CD

  • Hammer vs. Evil D. in Soulfire (unreleased) (Sega)

Mega Drive/Genesis

  • Jammit (US Publisher: Virgin Games)

Super Famicom/Super NES

  • Jammit (US Publisher: GTE Entertainment)
  • Street Hockey '95 (US Publisher: GTE Entertainment)

Windows

  • Timelapse (US Publisher: GTE Entertainment; DE Publisher: Philips Interactive Media)
Additional Development ("helped complete" [9]): Cyberflix

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