Artech Digital Entertainment
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Short description|Video game developer company}}
{{One source|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Artech Digital Entertainment
| logo = Artech Studios logo.jpg
| trade_name = Artech Studios
| type = Private
| founded = 1982
| fate = Disbanded
| hq_location_city = Ottawa, Ontario
| hq_location_country = Canada
| num_employees = 60+
| num_employees_year = as of 2006
| founders = Rick Banks
Paul Butler
Steve Armstrong
| defunct = {{end date and age|2011|12|31}}
}}
Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. (stylized as ARTECH studios) was a video game developer formed in 1982 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Also known as Artech Studios, the company developed games such as Raze's Hell, Monopoly, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, and a remake of Q*bert.
The company has developed games for the ColecoVision, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari computers, Nabu Network, Genesis, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC, and the Xbox 360. They have also developed a series of interactive games designed for standard DVD players.
Artech Studios closed its doors in December 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.hardgamers.com/nouvelle.asp?no=45521 |title=Le studio Canadien Artech a fermé ses portes en Décembre |publisher=HardGamers |access-date=February 20, 2012 |archive-date=January 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125060112/http://www.hardgamers.com/nouvelle.asp?no=45521 |url-status=dead }}
Game titles
=[[Nabu Network]]=
- Zot!
- Wiztype
- MacBeth
- Skiing!
- Astro Lander
- BC Matchup
=[[Commodore 64]]=
=[[ColecoVision]]=
=[[ZX Spectrum]]=
=[[Amiga]]=
- Heat Wave
- Theatre of War
- Patriot
- Megafortress: The Flight of the Old Dog
- Blue Angels: Formation Flight Simulation
- Blue Max
- Das Boot
- Mental Blocks
=[[Sega Genesis|Genesis]]=
=[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super NES]]=
=[[Mac OS|Mac]]=
=[[DOS]]=
- Heat Wave: Offshore Superboat Racing
- Fight Night
- The Train: Escape to Normandy
- Mean 18
- Rack 'Em
- Serve and Volley
- Blue Angels
- Mental Blocks
- Blue Max: Aces of the Great War
- Das Boot
- Megafortress
- Theatre of War
- Patriot
- Wild Science Arcade
- Mystery at the Museums
- Rock and Bach
- Director's Lab
- Wild Board Games
- Wild Card Games
- Adventures with Edison
- Play Math
- Wild Ride
- Super Putt
- UFOs - Gnap
- Medieval Times
- Moto Extreme
- Monopoly Star Wars
- Celtica
- Thunder Chrome
- ARA
- Star Wars Playset
- Wheel of Fortune
- Jeopardy!
- Guess Who?
- Family Feud
- Family Fortunes
- Wheel of Fortune 2nd Edition
- Jeopardy 2nd Edition
- Stanley's Tiger Tales
- Music Mix Studio
- Cinderella's Castle Builder
=Windows PC=
- Arcade Mania
- Super Putt
- Q*Bert
- Monopoly
- My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens
- Trivial Pursuit Unhinged
- Friends: The One with All the Trivia
- The Undergarden
- Aces of the Galaxy
- I Spy Fun House
- U.F.O.s
- Jeopardy 2003
- Wheel of Fortune 2003
- Hello Kitty Cutie World
- Stanley Wild for Sharks
- Stanley Tiger Tales
- Tonka Search and Rescue 2
- Power Rangers Ninja Storm
=[[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]]=
- Wheel of Fortune
- Jeopardy!
- Q*Bert
- Family Feud
- Wheel of Fortune 2nd Edition
- Jeopardy 2nd Edition
=[[PlayStation 2]]=
- Wheel of Fortune PS2
- Jeopardy PS2
- Trivial Pursuit Unhinged
- Friends: The One with All the Trivia
=[[Xbox (console)|Xbox]]=
=[[DVD]]=
- Show Me the Wild
- Time Troopers
- Trivial Pursuit: Lord of the Rings
- ''Scholastic Read with Me DVD!'
- Clue
- Candyland
- Clifford/Goosebumps/I-Spy
- Twister Dance
- Monopoly Tropical Tycoon
=[[Xbox 360]]=
=[[PlayStation 3]]=
References
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External links
- {{MobyGames company|company=artech-studios-ltd|name=Artech Studios}}
Category:Video game development companies
Category:Video game companies established in 1982
Category:Video game companies disestablished in 2011
Category:Defunct video game companies of Canada