Majesco Entertainment
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Majesco Entertainment is a video game publisher founded in 1986. It first made a name as a reissuer of old titles that had been abandoned by their original publisher. By cutting the prices dramatically and, eventually, arranging the rights to self-manufacture games for both Nintendo and Sega systems, the company found a sustainable market niche.
Later, they arranged with Sega to manufacture a version of its Genesis (also known as Mega Drive) 16-bit console, which had been superseded by the 32-bit Saturn. They released this in 1998 as the Genesis 3, and followed up with a version of the hand-held Game Gear called the Game Gear Core System.
More recently, the company's focus shifted to in-house game development - initially under the brand of Pipe-Dream Interactive, since few believed they could make the transition successfully. Majesco now focuses on developing for newer systems, such as Nintendo's GameCube and Game Boy Advance, Microsoft's Xbox, and Sony's PlayStation 2. A few of their latest titles released, involving popular characters, included a few Bomberman titles for the Gamecube and Game Boy Advance.
The publisher has reached financial trouble lately with their major games, such as Psychonauts, which sold poorly despite achieving several awards and critical acclaim, and Advent Rising, which generated intense hype but was ultimately panned by critics for being released pre-maturely and without adequate bug testing. Their best selling titles in the last few years was their series of GBA Videos for the Game Boy Advance. They also recently published the game Jaws Unleashed.
In January 2006 the company's financial situation was so bad that it had to cancel two games it was going to publish: Demonik, developed by Terminal Reality, and Taxi Driver, a sequel to the movie. Majesco's President, Jesse Sutton, said that in the future the company would "focus primarily on publishing value and handheld video games". [1]
On September 14 2006, Majesco released Bloodrayne, Bloodrayne 2, and Advent Rising on Steam.
Majesco announced another sequel to the long forgotten title of A Boy and His Blob for the Nintendo DS at E3 featuring 3D graphics. It is rumored to have been completed but not yet released.
