Companies like Parker Brothers, Activision, and Micro Fun bypassed this loop, which necessitated embedding portions of the BIOS outside the delay loop, further reducing storage available to actual game programming.

The game, which became a hit, was produced by Activision ; a similar later game, whose title features similar alliteration, is Bonanza Bros. ( 1990 ).

Some franchises ( such as Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon ) that were published by Sierra will be published by Activision, which also announced in 2008 that it may sell the Sierra brand.

In 2008, Sierra parent company Vivendi Universal Games, which had since been renamed Vivendi Games in 2006, merged with video game publisher Activision to form the Activision Blizzard holding company.

In 2006, the James Bond game license was acquired by Activision, which published additional games in the James Bond video game series, such as Quantum of Solace, 007: Blood Stone, and a reimagining of the Nintendo 64 game, also titled GoldenEye 007.

MicroProse responded by buying Hartland Trefoil, which was the original designer and manufacturer of the Civilization board game, and then sued Avalon Hill and Activision for trademark infringement and unfair business practices as a result of Activision's decision to develop and publish Civilization computer games.

Under the terms of the settlement MicroProse became the sole owner of the rights of the name Civilization and Activision acquired a license to publish a Civilization computer game which was later called Civilization: Call to Power.

The rights to Gabriel Knight are currently held by Activision, which acquired them after merging with former rights holder Vivendi Universal in 2008.

Colby also lent his expertise and knowledge, along with Oleg Kalugin, to the Activision game Spycraft: The Great Game, which was released shortly before his death.

$ 11 million is thought to be a fraction of the true value of his stake, which is thought to be closer to $ 43 million after the company received a $ 105 million bid from Activision in 2004.

Reiche is currently the CEO and Director of Development of Toys For Bob, which was acquired by Activision in 2005.

Gray Matter Interactive Studios, Inc. was a computer game developer, which was acquired by Activision in January 2002.

In October 2002 Activision announced it had purchased Luxoflux, which at the time was working on True Crime: Streets of LA.

Activision released a sequel in December 1999, Battlezone II: Combat Commander, which involved a war resulting from the incursion of a new faction known as the Scions.

It was one of a series of sports games by Activision, which also included 1980's Activision Boxing.

Activision Tennis is played for one set of games, in which the first player to win six games won the competition, unlike real life tennis, where competitors have to win, at least, two out of three six game sets.

Both Activision Tennis and Activision Boxing have been re-released in specially made video controllers, which usually contain packs of five or six games each.

Since contractual obligations with Valve would interdict Bloodlines to be released before Valve's debut of the Source engine in Half-Life 2, Activision did not publicly announce that the game had gone Gold and instead gave Troika an additional week to polish the game, after which Bloodlines Version 1. 1 underwent another three weeks of testing.

That direction in which Activision decided to take was later on revealed on February 2011, to be in the form of Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, which is the second reboot of the Spyro series.

* The original rights holder is Activision, which should be blatantly obvious from the image itself.

Other foreign games that have achieved near-perfect scores are L. A. Noire, Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto IV-all three of which came from Rockstar Games ; Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3-all from Activision ; and Gears of War 3 from Epic Games.

In 1997, Raven made an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was subsequently acquired by them.

For example: Activision acquired Raven ( 1997 ), Neversoft ( 1999 ), Z-Axis ( 2001 ), Treyarch ( 2001 ), Luxoflux ( 2002 ), Shaba ( 2002 ), Infinity Ward ( 2003 ) and Vicarious Visions ( 2005 ).

In recent years this model has been in decline, with the larger publishers such as Electronic Arts and Activision increasingly turning to internal studios, usually former independent developers that they have acquired for the majority of their development needs.

Star Trek: Armada II was released by Activision a year after they acquired the full rights to all the franchise holding of the video game's franchise from Viacom.

Until they were acquired by Activision in 1985, Infocom's titles were something of a rarity in the UK, only usually available as expensive imports.

During the development of Brütal Legend, publishing issue arose as Activision, having acquired the rights to the title through its merger with Vivendi Games, decided to drop it and forced Schafer to locate another publisher, eventually signing a deal with Electronic Arts.

On 10 November 2008, Ubisoft acquired Massive Entertainment from Activision.

In the early part of 2006, Activision acquired RedOctane, causing several publishers to become interested in acquiring Harmonix.

The company was acquired by Activision in October 1999.

In 2006, Activision acquired the Guitar Hero IP, as well as Red Octane, and chose Neversoft as their developer.

Activision acquired Neversoft in the summer of 1999 in a stock swap deal.

After Activision acquired RedOctane and the Guitar Hero series, Harmonix developed their last Guitar Hero game, Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, before they were acquired by MTV.

Shaba Games was a video game developer founded in September 1997, located in San Francisco, California, and acquired by Activision in 2002.

Treyarch is an American video game developer company, founded in 1996 by Peter Akemann and Doğan Köslü ( aka Don Likeness ), and acquired by Activision in 2001.

Underground Development ( formerly known as Z-Axis ) was a video game developer founded in 1994 and acquired by Activision in May 2002.

In 1986, Infocom was acquired by Activision, a large developer and publisher.

Shortly after Electronic Arts abandoned the license, in May 2006, Activision acquired non-exclusive rights to develop and publish James Bond games, which were to become exclusive in 2007.

By July 2005, Sega had acquired the publishing rights to Rome: Total War from Activision, and built on the brand strategy by releasing two expansion packs: Barbarian Invasion in September 2005 and Alexander in September 2006.

Bizarre Creations was acquired by publisher Activision in 2007, and subsequently completed its racer Blur in May 2010.

Activision preferred to market Infocom's games the way they marketed their other titles: replacing older titles with newer ones.

For a few years, Activision continued to market Infocom's classic games in collections ( usually by genre, such as the Science Fiction collection ); in 1991, they published The Lost Treasures of Infocom, followed in 1992 by The Lost Treasures of Infocom II.

Activision paid off Infocom's outstanding debt as part of the deal.

It was one of the last games in Infocom's Zork series ; or, rather, one of the last Zork games that many Infocom fans consider " official " ( titles such as Zork: Nemesis and Zork Grand Inquisitor were created after Activision had dissolved Infocom as a company and kept the " brand name ").