Scavenger, Inc.

{{Short description|Video game publisher}}

Scavenger was a video game publisher that worked closely with GT Interactive.{{cite web|url=http://www.gtinteractive.com/2tvNIB3j/press/scavenger.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19961219163654/http://www.gtinteractive.com:80/2tvNIB3j/press/scavenger.html|title=GT Interactive enters into global PC publishing agreement with Scavenger|website=GT Interactive|archivedate=December 19, 1996|date=April 10, 1996|accessdate=August 15, 2024}} Based in Los Angeles, most of its graphic specialists were members of the Amiga demoscene.{{cite journal|title=75 Power Players: The Next Generation?|journal=Next Generation|issue=11|publisher=Imagine Media|date=November 1995|pages=75–76}}

The demoscene background influenced many of the released or work-in-progress game projects, which were often technically innovative and accomplished feats that were previously thought impossible on the respective hardware platforms. For example, the Sega 32X 3D engine developed by Scavenger Team Zyrinx is still regarded as one of the best of its kind.{{cite web

|url = http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=200&title=Developer%27s%20Den:%20Zyrinx

|title = Zyrinx|author = Nick Gibson

|access-date = 2007-11-23|date = 2006-09-01

|work = Developer's Den|publisher = Sega-16

}}{{cite web

|url = http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/zyrinx/zyrinx.htm

|title = Hardcore Gaming 101: Zyrinx

|access-date = 2010-02-04

|work = Hardcore Gaming 101

|archive-date = 2010-08-14

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100814091033/http://hardcoregaming101.net/zyrinx/zyrinx.htm

|url-status = dead

}}

Among the teams working on games for Scavenger were:

• Zyrinx
• Lemon
• Triton{{cite web

|url = http://www.thecomputershow.com/computershow/previews/intotheshadows.htm

|title = Into the Shadows|author = Alfred Giovetti

|access-date = 2007-11-23|date = 1996-10-01

|work = Previews|publisher = Joppa Computer Products

}} (now Starbreeze Studios).

Scavenger went bankrupt around 1998. Many of the original teams' members are now active in other game companies, such as IO Interactive.