Crawfish Interactive

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Crawfish Interactive
Type Private
Industry Video games
FoundedMarch 1997;26 years ago (March 1997)
FounderCameron Sheppard [1]
DefunctNovember 2002;21 years ago (November 2002)
FateDefunct
Headquarters,
U.K.
Key people
  • Cameron Sheppard
  • Mike Merren
  • Steve Collett
ProductsGames for Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance
Website crawfishinteractive.com (archived)

Crawfish Interactive was a video game developer based in Croydon, London, United Kingdom. [2] The company was founded in March 1997 and closed in November 2002. [2] [3] The company specialised in games software for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance formats. Upon closure, former employees of the company joined Climax as a development team for handheld formats. [4] The last two games, Superman: Countdown to Apokolips and Ed, Edd n Eddy: Jawbreakers! , both started development at the studio, but it was later finished by Mistic Software and Climax, respectively.

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