Orbital Media Inc. was a video-game company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that was founded in 2003. It developed games mainly for Nintendo handheld platforms. It became defunct in 2014. [1]
Industry | Interactive Entertainment |
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Founded | 2003 |
Defunct | 2014 |
Headquarters | Calgary, Alberta , Canada |
Racing Gears Advance for Game Boy Advance
Scurge: Hive for Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS
Juka and the Monophonic Menace for Game Boy Advance
Pirate Battle for Nintendo DS, previously slated for Game Boy Advance (Presumably canceled)
Racing Gears DS for Nintendo DS (Presumably canceled)
The Game Boy Advance (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, in the PAL region on June 22, 2001, and in mainland China as iQue Game Boy Advance on June 8, 2004. The GBA is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles. The original model does not have an illuminated screen; Nintendo addressed that with the release of a redesigned model with a frontlit screen, the Game Boy Advance SP, in 2003. A newer revision of the redesign was released in 2005, with a backlit screen. Around the same time, the final redesign, the Game Boy Micro, was released.
iQue, Ltd. is a translation/localization and support development company located in Suzhou. It was founded as a joint venture between Wei Yen and Nintendo in 2002 as a Chinese video game console manufacturing company. The following year, the company released the iQue Player. The company had manufactured and distributed official Nintendo products for the mainland Chinese market under the iQue brand until 2018.
Allister Brimble is a British video game music composer. Brimble began composing music and sound effects for the video game industry in the mid-1980s. He also produced various audio tracks, as "Brimble's Beats", that were distributed on cover disks of magazines including CU Amiga and Amiga Format.
Rayman Raving Rabbids is a party video game developed and published by Ubisoft. The game is a spinoff in the Rayman series, and was released in November 2006. The game consists of 75 minigames. The game was released for the PlayStation 2, Wii, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows systems, with a different version released for Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and mobile phones. A PlayStation Portable version was planned, but was later cancelled.
Cars is an open world racing video game, based on the 2006 Pixar film of the same name. Developed by Rainbow Studios, it was released for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PSP in June 2006, with versions for the Xbox 360 and Wii released later that year. The Wii version includes functionality geared towards its Wii Remote controller, and was a launch game for the system.
Danny Phantom: Urban Jungle is a video game for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS handhelds. It is based on the episode "Urban Jungle" from the television series Danny Phantom and is the second video game for the series. Players play the role of Danny Phantom in his adventure to save Amity Park from various ghosts from the show. Its console versions were all cancelled for unknown reasons.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is an action-adventure game based on the film of the same name developed by Griptonite Games and Amaze Entertainment for the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and PSP.
Aspect Co. Ltd was a Japanese based video game company which was founded in March 1991.
Racing Gears Advance is a combat racing game for the Game Boy Advance system released in 2004 and includes licensed vehicles from GM, Dodge, Mitsubishi and Lotus Cars.
Tantalus Media is an Australian video game developer based in Melbourne. It was founded in 1994 by programmers Andrew Bailey and Trevor Nuridin.
Majesco Entertainment Company is an American video game publisher and distributor based in Hazlet, New Jersey. The company was founded as Majesco Sales in Edison, New Jersey in 1986, and was a privately held company until acquiring operation-less company ConnectivCorp in a reverse merger takeover, becoming its subsidiary and thus a public company on December 5, 2003. ConnectivCorp later changed its name to Majesco Holdings Inc. on April 13, 2004.
Shantae is a series of platform games developed by WayForward. The eponymous heroine of the series, a half-genie, was created by Erin Bozon, while the games were created from this character by her husband Matt Bozon. The series consists of five games: Shantae (2002), Shantae: Risky's Revenge (2010), Shantae and the Pirate's Curse (2014), Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (2016) and Shantae and the Seven Sirens (2019).