Activision

USA publisher and developerfounded in 1979-10 status: active

1768
games
37.6
per year
46
years active

aka(s): Activision Publishing, Activision Blizzard

Founders: David Crane, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead
... all of whom were former Atari programmers.

Corporate name changed to Mediagenic in 1988 but Activision brand continued to be used.

Filed for Chapter 11 reorganization (bankruptcy) in 1992, which led to merger with The Disc Company.

In 2008 there was a merger with Vivendi Games (owner of Blizzard) to become Activision Blizzard.

2013-10 Activision bought itself out of the Vivendi merger and is now again its own company.

Notable collaborators: David Crane, Steve Cartwright, Russell Lieblich, David Levine and Dan Kitchen

It is known for After Burner, Altered Beast, Angry Birds, Archon, Battlezone, Bloody Roar, Bomberman, Call of Duty, Call to Power, Commander Keen, Crash Bandicoot, Crazy Taxi, Dark Reign, DJ Hero, Doom, Double Dragon, Earthworm Jim, Enemy Territory, Geometry Wars, Guitar Hero, Heavy Gear, Heretic and HeXen, Interstate, Last Ninja, Legacy of Kain, Little Big Adventure, MechWarrior, Monster Jam series, Nightmare Creatures, Pitfall, Prototype series, Quake, R-Type, Rampage serie, Santa Fe Mysteries, Sargon, Sid Meier's Civilization, SiN, Skylanders, Soldier of Fortune, Space Invaders, Spyro, Strogg, SuperLite1500, Tetris, The Legend of Spyro, Tony Hawk, Total War, Toukon Retsuden, True Crime, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, Virtual On, Wolfenstein, Wonder Boy, Zork, Zork Universe

Releases per year

1980 6
1981 6
1982 10
1983 38
1984 73
1985 62
1986 69
1987 78
1988 46
1989 79
1990 54
1991 17
1992 8
1993 8
1994 17
1995 21
1996 28
1997 21
1998 28
1999 40
2000 37
2001 48
2002 61
2003 44
2004 61
2005 81
2006 70
2007 89
2008 86
2009 109
2010 70
2011 42
2012 69
2013 38
2014 29
2015 35
2016 11
2017 8
2018 4
2019 7
2020 7
2021 7
2022 2
2023 2
2024 2

1728 video games with valid date were considered (97.7%)

Overall rankings

3.6
average

Common gametypes

action/reflex20%shooter19%adventure10%sport9%platformer8%other32%

Top platforms

  Windows 182
  Wii 132
  PS2 108
  X360 99
  C64 98
  PS3 79
  Nintendo DS 71
  Xbox 63
  GBA 61
  PS 56
  ZX Spectrum 54
  Amstrad CPC 53
  Atari 2600 52
  MS-DOS 52
  GameCube 46