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Activision (ATVI) is an American video game developer and publisher, majority owned by French conglomerate Vivendi SA. It was founded on October 1, 1979 and was the first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles. Its first products were cartridges for the Atari 2600...
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Kaboom!
Kaboom! is an Atari 2600 game designed by Larry Kaplan and published by Activision in 1981. It was also released for the Atari 5200 and the Atari 8-bit family of computers. A 16-bit remake for the Super Nintendo was in the works at some point, but...
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Star Trek: Armada
Star Trek: Armada is a computer game published by Activision in 2000, based upon the Star Trek universe. It also has a sequel, Star Trek: Armada II.
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- Feb 29, 2000
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, released as Tony Hawk's Skateboarding in Europe, is a skateboarding video game. It is the first entry in the Tony Hawk series of video game. It was originally released for the PlayStation on September 30, 1999 and was later...
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- Sep 29, 1999
Pitfall!
Pitfall! is a video game released by Activision for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It is one of the best selling games ever made for the Atari 2600, with over 4 million copies sold.
The player must maneuver a character known as Pitfall Harry through a maze...
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Apple Town Story
is a port of the 1985 Activision computer game Little Computer People to the Famicom Disk System. The port was released by Squaresoft of Final Fantasy fame in 1987. The game consists of watching an animated little girl wander around her house and...
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- Apr 3, 1987
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, often abbreviated as THPS2, is the second game in the Tony Hawk's series. It was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision in 2000. It was first released for the PlayStation, with subsequent ports to the Nintendo...
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Civilization: Call to Power
Civilization: Call to Power (CivCTP) is a PC turn-based strategy game developed by Activision as a successor to the extremely successful Civilization computer game by Sid Meier. It was ported to Linux by Loki Software.
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- Mar 1999
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Battlezone
Battlezone is a critically acclaimed remake (for Microsoft Windows) of an arcade game of the same name. It was released by Activision in 1998. Aside from the name and presence of tanks, this game bears little resemblance to the original. Activision...
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- Mar 12, 1998
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Deuteros
Deuteros: The Next Millennium is the sequel to the sci-fi strategy video game Millennium 2.2, published by Activision for the Amiga and Atari ST. Ian Bird designed and wrote the game, with graphics by Jai Redman and music by Matt Bates.
While the...
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Activision Tennis
Activision Tennis is a 1981 Atari 2600 video game by Activision. It was one of a series of sports games by Activision, which also included 1980's Activision Boxing. Activision Tennis was designed by Activision co-founder, Alan Miller.
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- 1981
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Zork Grand Inquisitor
Zork: Grand Inquisitor is a graphical adventure game, developed by Activision and released in 1997 for the IBM compatible PC and Macintosh (by MacPlay). It builds upon the Zork and Enchanter series of interactive fiction computer games originally...
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Zork: Nemesis
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands is a 1996 graphical adventure game developed by Zombie Studios and published/edited by Activision. It is the eleventh game in the Zork series, and the first such title not to appear under the Infocom label (Return...
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- 1996
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Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is a licensed game by Activision based on the movie of the same name. It was designed by David Crane, produced by Brad Fregger, and released for several home computer platforms in 1984, and later for video game console systems,...
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- 1985
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Little Computer People
Little Computer People, also called House-on-a-Disk, is a life simulation game/god game released in 1985 by Activision for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum and Apple II. An Amiga version was released in 1987. A Family Computer...
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- 1985
Interstate '76
Interstate '76 is a vehicular combat video game for Windows. It was developed and published by Activision and released in March 1997.
The game is set in the south-western United States of America in an alternative version of the year 1976, during a...
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- Mar 28, 1997
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Call to Power II
Call to Power II (CTP2) is a PC turn-based strategy game released by Activision as a sequel to Civilization: Call to Power, which was, in turn, a game similar to the Civilization computer game by Sid Meier. The game could not have "Civilization" in...
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Plaque Attack
Plaque Attack is a 1983 video game for the Atari 2600 that was made by Activision. In this game a player keeps food from destroying teeth in a person's mouth. Steve Cartwright, who designed the game, said that game was meant to help people develop...
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- 1983
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Keystone Kapers
Keystone Kapers was a 1983 game published by Activision for the Atari 2600, and later ported to Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit family, ColecoVision and MSX. Inspired by Mack Sennett's slapstick Keystone Kops series of silent films, the object of the game...
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True Crime: New York City
True Crime: New York City is an urban adventure video game published by Activision and developed by Luxoflux for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and GameCube consoles. It was released to Windows-based computers on March 24, 2006. It is the second game of...
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- Nov 15, 2005
X-Men: Mutant Academy 2
X-Men: Mutant Academy 2 is a PlayStation video game, the sequel to X-Men: Mutant Academy. Both feature the X-MEN in a 3-D fighting arena similar to Mortal Kombat 4. Like its predecessor, the game allows the player to select from several heroes and...
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- Sep 20, 2001
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Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is a video game released in 1994 for the Super NES and Sega CD by Activision. It was ported to the Sega Genesis (1995), Sega 32X (1995), the Atari Jaguar (1995), PC (1995), and the Game Boy Advance (2001), with the last...
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- 1994
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River Raid
River Raid is a scrolling shooter videogame and was released in 1982 by Activision for the Atari 2600, and later the Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, C64, ColecoVision, IBM PCjr, Intellivision, ZX Spectrum, and MSX. The player controls an airplane in a top...
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Pitfall II: Lost Caverns
Pitfall II: Lost Caverns is a platforming video game originally released for the Atari 2600 video game console in 1984. It is the sequel to the popular Pitfall!. Both games were designed and written by David Crane and published by Activision. The...
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- 1984
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Interstate '76 Nitro Pack
Interstate '76: Nitro Pack is a video game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed by Activision and released in 1997. Originally an expansion pack for the original Interstate '76, it was later released in a stand-alone format as Interstate '76:...
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Interstate '82
Interstate '82 is a computer game for the PC. It was developed by Activision and released in 1999.
The game is set in the southwest United States of America in an alternate version of the year 1982, during the Reagan Administration. The game is less...
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- Nov 22, 1999
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Park Patrol
Park Patrol is a computer game released in 1984 for the Commodore 64 computer. It was later also released for the Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. It was designed by Tony Ngo and published by Activision.
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- 1987
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MechWarrior 2
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat is a 1995 video game produced by Activision. It is part of the MechWarrior series of video games. It separates itself from the original board game BattleTech by placing the player inside the cockpit of the...
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Ice Hockey
Ice Hockey is an ice hockey video game designed by Activision programmer Alan Miller, and published by Activision.
Ice Hockey is a game of two-on-two ice hockey. One player on each team is the goalie, and the other plays offensive (although, the...
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Boxing
Boxing is an Atari 2600 video game based on the sport of boxing. The game was designed by Activision programmer Bob Whitehead.
Boxing shows a top-down view of two boxers, one white and one black. When close enough, a boxer can hit his opponent with...
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- Jul 1980
Fishing Derby
Fishing Derby is an Atari 2600 video game created by Activision programmer David Crane based on the sport of fishing.
In Fishing Derby, two fishermen sit on opposite docks over a lake filled with fish (and a shark that passes through). Using the...
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- Jul 1980
Bomberman Tournament
Bomberman Tournament (known as Bomberman Story in Japan) was a game in the long standing Bomberman series for the GBA. The game contains a fully realized multiplayer battle mode between linked Game Boy Advances. The player and up to three friends...
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- 2001
Galaxy 5000
Galaxy 5000: Racing in the 51st Century is a racing game developed by Activision for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game takes place in the future, in outer space.It features the racing of futuristic craft that can battle each other for...
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- 1991
Beamrider
Beamrider is a scrolling shooter designed for the Intellivision by Activision programmer David Rolfe. The game was then ported to the Atari 2600 (with a slightly reduced feature set), Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum...
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- 1983
Atlantis Underwater Tycoon
Atlantis Underwater Tycoon is a business simulation game in which you must create an underwater civilization, and become a tycoon. It was developed and published by Activision Value, and released January 3, 2003 for Microsoft Windows on the PC.
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- Jan 3, 2003
Pressure Cooker
Pressure Cooker is an Atari 2600 video game released by Activision in 1983. It has arcade-style gameplay, in which the player is a short-order cook at a hamburger stand who must assemble and package hamburgers to order without letting ingredients or...
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MTX Mototrax
MTX Mototrax is a Motocross videogame made by Left Field Productions and published by Activision for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2004. It was released in 2006 for the PlayStation Portable. The game was also set for release for the GameCube console...
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- Jun 28, 2006
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Activision Anthology
Activision Anthology is a compilation of most of the Atari 2600 games by Activision for various systems. It also includes some games originally released by Absolute Entertainment and Imagic, as well as some homebrewed games. The Windows and Mac OS X...
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- Nov 25, 2002
Fast Food Tycoon 2
Fast Food Tycoon 2 (known as Pizza Connection 2 in Europe) is an business simulation game on the PC in which the player starts out as the owner of a small pizza parlor and must gain popularity and eventually own the pizza empire. A sequel of Fast...
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Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures is a video game based upon Shamu, SeaWorld's popular orca. The game was released on November 1, 2005 and is available for GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, and Xbox.
In the game, Poseidon, the Greek...
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- Nov 1, 2005
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Megamania
Megamania is an Atari 2600 game designed by Steve Cartwright and published by Activision in 1982. It was also released for the Atari 5200 and Atari 8-bit family in 1983, ported by Glyn Anderson. The Atari 2600 version was also bundled in with the...
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Enduro
Enduro is a videogame designed by Larry Miller and published by Activision for the Atari 2600 video game system in 1983. The object of the game is to be in an endurance race and to pass a certain amount of cars each day as to continue the race the...
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Spycraft: The Great Game
Spycraft (also known by its full title, Spycraft: The Great Game) is an adventure CD-ROM game published by Activision in 1996. It details the attempted assassination of the President of the United States and the CIA and SVR attempts to save him....
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- 1996
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Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth
Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth is an action role-playing game released by Activision in 1986. It is based on the popular Transformers animated series.
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Ultimate Air Combat
Ultimate Air Combat (known as Aces: Iron Eagle III in Japan) is a semi-realistic combat flight simulator developed and published by Activision for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Having relatively good graphics for the console, Ultimate Air...
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Cabela's Alaskan Adventure
Cabela's Alaskan Adventures (also known as Cabela's Big Game Hunter: 10th Anniversary Edition - Alaskan Adventure for Windows) is a hunting video game which was developed by Sand Grain Studios, FUN Labs, and Magic Wand Productions and published by...
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- Sep 9, 2006
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World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker is a video game based on the popular gambling tournament World Series of Poker. It is succeeded by World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions and World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets. It was produced for the...
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- Aug 31, 2005
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World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions
World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions is a video game based on the popular gambling tournament World Series of Poker. It's available for multiple systems: Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Wii, PlayStation Portable and PC. It is the successor of the...
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- 2006
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Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword is a game based on the Tomb Raider series. It was released for the Game Boy Color in 2001, and it is a sequel to the first Tomb Raider for the same system.
A long time ago, an evil magician named Madame...
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- 2001
Aliens: The Computer Game
Aliens: The Computer Game is an action game released in 1986 and based on the second film in the Alien film series. A game developed by Software Studios is also called Aliens: The Computer Game. While the Software Studios game is based solely on...
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- 1986
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Big Biz Tycoon 2
Big Biz Tycoon 2 is a business simulation game centered on the business world. Similar to other games in this genre, the player aims to become a mogul of an industry. It was developed for Microsoft Windows by Animedia, and published by Activision...
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- Jun 16, 2003
Pimp My Ride
Pimp My Ride is a simulation/racing game published by Activision. This game is based on the popular MTV show. It came out in 2006 for Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2. In the game, players are challenged to pimp out their friend...
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- Nov 21, 2006
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The Activision Decathlon
The Activision Decathlon is a sports game for the Atari 8-bit, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Commodore 64, ColecoVision and MSX platforms. Up to four players compete in the ten different events of a real-life decathlon, either in sequence or individually....
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- Mar 18, 1983
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Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder
Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder is a PlayStation 2 game with a similar feel to the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series, and is developed by Activision 02. The game feaures many famous snowboarders including Shaun Palmer and Shaun White.
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- Dec 13, 2001
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Barnstorming
Barnstorming is an Atari 2600 video game designed by Steve Cartwright and published by Activision in 1982.
The player must pilot a biplane through a series of barns in the shortest time possible while dodging windmills, weather vanes, and geese....
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Cabela's GrandSlam Hunting: North American 29
Cabela's GrandSlam Hunting: North American 29 is the first to be released in the GrandSlam series. It was developed by Activision and released in the year 2000.
The game was published by Activision, in conjunction with hunting supply company Cabela...
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Madagascar: Operation Penguin
Madagascar: Operation Penguin was a game based on Madagascar. It was to be played by the penguins. It started at the end of the The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper and eventually became the events of the film.
It has a reference to Splinter...
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- Mar 2, 2006
The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure
The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure is a video game based on Disney's animated film The Lion King. The title was published by Activision in 2000, and was released on Game Boy Color and PlayStation. Unlike the previous The Lion King video game,...
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The Dreadnaught Factor
The Dreadnaught Factor was a video game produced by Activision for the Atari 5200 video game system and Atari 8-bit computer family. The game involved the player flying a small fighter spaceship called a "Novaray Hyperfighter" and attacking a much...
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- 1983
Crackpots
Crackpots is an Atari 2600 game designed by Dan Kitchen and published by Activision in 1983. Crackpots was also bundled in with the Activision Anthology release in 2002 for the Playstation 2.
In Crackpots, you play as Potsy a gardener. Potsy's...
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- May 16, 1983
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Dark Reign: Rise of the Shadowhand
Dark Reign: Rise of the Shadowhand is the Expansion to Dark Reign: The Future of War. The expansion includes a new Campaign and new maps and units. It also features two new sides, Xenites and Shadowhand, bringing the total number of playable races...
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