Activision

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Founded in 1979-10 last activity in 2021
Status: active
Country: USA

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.

It is known for After Burner, Altered Beast, Angry Birds, Archon, Battlezone, Bloody Roar, Bomberman, Call of Duty, Call to Power, Cannon Fodder, 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, 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, True Crime, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, Virtual On, Wolfenstein, Wonder Boy, Zork, Zork Universe

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1702 video games with valid date were considered (97.5%)

Overall rankings

Common gametypes

action/reflex20%shooter19%adventure10%sport9%platformer8%other31%

Top platforms

Windows 181
Wii 131
PS2 101
C64 98
X360 94
PS3 76
Nintendo DS 69
Xbox 64
GBA 61
PS 56
Amstrad CPC 54
ZX Spectrum 52
Atari 2600 52
MS-DOS 52
GameCube 46