You can kinda tell these were made in a hurry. But in spite of the bankruptcy, they had one last hurrah, by releasing two games that they were mostly well-known for: game show games based on the one-two punch of one Merv Griffin. Some of the projects they were making, like RoboTech: Crystal Dreams, got canceled. Unfortunately by the late 1990s, GameTek was struggling, and in December 1997 they had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Hell, their UK branch helped distributed the work of Capstone, “The Pinnacle of Entertainment Software.” Despite this, they will always be the game show game guys to me. They published other stuff too: They helped publish Frontier: Elite II for instance.
Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis, DOS, Windows, you name it, they likely published a game show game on a system you had. A subsidiary of IJE Inc, the publisher would license various game show franchises – usually Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, two of the biggest game shows in the USA – and put them out on every platform imaginable. Don’t ask me why.įor a good chunk of the 80s and 90s, GameTek was the definitive game show game publisher in North America. Yes, in this image, it’s deliberately off-center.
