Difference between revisions of "GTE Interactive Media"

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Started in January 1990 [1], GTE Interactive Media (GTE-IM) 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-IM was known as GTE ImagiTrek. [3] With a downturn in the CD-ROM market and an inability to find a buyer for the division, the announcement was made in January 1997 to shut it down on March 14 of that year. [4]

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

Research Methods: Actual mentions, online resources, shared staff

3DO

• Jammit (US Publisher: GTE Entertainment)

Arcade

• Time Traveler (Sega) [5]

DOS

• Jammit (US Publisher: GTE Entertainment)
• NCAA Championship Basketball (US Publisher: GTE Entertainment)

Online Programming Conversion: Junglevision Software [6]

Macintosh

• Timelapse (US Publisher: Hammerhead Entertainment)

Additional Development ("helped complete" [7]): Cyberflix

Mega CD/Sega CD

• Hammer vs. Evil D. in Soulfire (unreleased) (Sega) [8]

Mega Drive/Genesis

• Jammit (US Publisher: Virgin)

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

Links

• Official website (Internet Archive Wayback Machine)