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Phoenix GamesPGW is a partly-defunct Dutch video game publisher founded by Willie Horden, Paul Share and Steve Share, that released a large amount of low-effort titles for the Sony PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows and the Nintendo Wii. They had contracts with over 50 develloper Studios arround the globe.

They published games based on Dingo Pictures films on the aforementioned consoles (barring Windows). Their last known published game was Lion and the King 3 on Nintendo DS, released on February 12th, 2010.

The German Video Game Archive claims that they published 99 games on the PlayStation 2 alone.[1]

Phoenix Games Group[]

Phoenix Games was devised between three companies, Phoenix Games B.V., Phoenix Games Ltd. and Phoenix Games Asia. The group was an exhibitor at E3 in 2005.[2] Also they went to ECTS2003.[3]

Phoenix Games B.V.[]

Founded in May 2002 by Willie Horden[4] and Paul and Steve Share. They had a UK subsidiary based in Leicester. They were exhibitors of E3 2004 and 2005[5] and were located in De Pinckart 46g, 5674 CC Nuenen in the Netherlands.

Phoenix Games B.V. declared bankruptcy on August 3rd, 2010. On March 27th, 2012 the bankruptcy was suspended due to a lack of income.[6]

Phoenix Games LTD[]

Phoenix Games LTD is still a active registered company in the UK located at 48 Boundary Rd, Newark, Notts, United Kingdom, NG24 4AL.[7] Their original address was 53 Malcolm Way, Snaresbrook, London, E11 1PW.

Phoenix Games Asia[]

Phoenix Games Asia was located at 24 Sukhumvit, Soi 11, Unit 3B, Sukhumvit Road Bangkok 10110, Thailand, Klongtoey Nua, Wattana. It is unknown if this company still exists or if it was closed down.

Games[]

The company's titles took only around 3-5 months to develop. At some point, they planned releasing their games to the PSP and Xbox (Retail Price: 9.99 GBP). The original store prices of the games were between 6.99 - 12.99 GBP. The mauals ans games are availeble in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

In Italy, the company DB-Line distributed the movies and games until 2007.[8] In Spain, at least one game was distributed by Atari.[9]

On 4th November 2002 they announced their partnership with Japanese company Altron,[10] and Italian develloper NAPS[11]. In Dezember 2002 they announced that they bought the rights to "Dragons Lair", "Space Ace", "Who shot Johnny Rock?" and "Mad Dog McCree"from Digital Leisure in Canada.[12] In February 2003 they announced that their games will distributed by "Just" in the UK[13],Joag in Italy, SGDiffusion in France and N-Tec in Hungary.[14]

On 22nd August 2003 they announced that "New Media Agency" will translate and distribute their games in Germany.[15] On 14th October 2003 they announced that Softwrap will be their Distributor in Europe[16]

In the first year they expected 4 to 5 million sold units worldwide.[17]

Other[]

All 99 PS2 covers were featured on the 2013 Gamescom art gallery "Coverstrophen".

Paul Share also founded Midas Interactive in 1998.

The PS2 boxart for Peter Pan stole official Kingdom Hearts artwork, more specifically, artwork depicting Destiny Islands, a world in the series.[18]

Both before and after the group existed, there were companies that were formed with the same name. From 1978 to 1981, an American company produced games, best known for the game Bushido.[19] In 2019, Klaas Kersing founded a gaming company in Germany with the same name.[20]

Known staff[]

In total 10 people worked with Phoenix Games.[21]

Phoenix Games B.V. (2002-2010)[]

  • Paul Share (CEO/President)
  • Willie (Will) Horden (sales director until February of 2005/managing director until June of 2009)
  • Steve Share (sales manager)
  • Ilse van de Vossenberg Vogels (production administrator)
  • Maarten van Schaik (development manager)

Phoenix Games Ltd.[]

  • Mark Hustle (born: July 1963) - director since 2013.
  • Simon Hamer (European Sales Manager)
  • Ian Smith (UK Sales Manager)[22]

Phoenix Games Asia[]

No official employees are known.

List of movies published[]

Dingo Pictures movies[]

  • ...noch mehr Dalmatiner: released as Dalmatians 2, Dalmatians 3 & Dalmatians 4 (for the PSX, PS2 and the Wii/DS, respectively)
  • Das unglaubliche Fussballspiel der Tiere: released as Animal Football & Animal Soccer World (for the PSX and PS2, respectively)
  • Atlantis: Der verlorene Kontinent: released as Atlantis: The Lost Continent & Empire of Atlantis (for the PSX and PS2, respectively)
  • Toys: Das Geburtstagsgeschenk: released as Toys & The Toys Room (for the PSX and PS2, respectively)
  • Abenteuer im Land der Dinosaurier: released as Dinosaurs & Dinosaur Adventure (for the PSX and PS2, respectively)
  • Ein Fall für die Mäusepolizei: released as Detective Mouse & The Mouse Police (for the PSX and PS2, respectively)
  • Winkie der kleine Bär: released as Winky the Little Bear & Countryside Bears (for the PSX and PS2, respectively)
  • Der König der Tiere: das grosse Abenteuer: released as Lion and the King 2, Son of the Lion King & Lion and the King 3 (for the PSX, PS2 and the Wii/DS, respectively)

Other movies released[]

  • Peter Pan (Longsoft Multimedia): released as Peter Pan & Peter Pan's Playground (PS2, Wii, DS)
  • Snow White and the Magnificent Seven (Longsoft Multimedia): released as Snow White and the 7 Clever Boys & Princess Snow White (PS2, Wii)
  • Cinderella (Longsoft Multimedia): released as Cinderella & Cinderella's Fairytale (Wii, PS2)
  • Pinocchio (Longsoft Multimedia): released as Adventures of Pinocchio (Wii, PS2, DS)
  • Hansel & Gretel (Longsoft Multimedia): released as Hansel & Gretel (PS2)
  • Hercules (Pure Magic): released as Herkules & Legend of Herkules (PSX, PS2)
  • Mulan (Django Studios): released as Legend of Mulan & Mighty Mulan (PSX, PS2)

List of Games on Nintendo Consoles[]

Nintendo DS[]

Nintendo Wii[]

Weblinks[]

References[]

  1. ↑ Coverstropfen on German Videogamearchive
  2. ↑ E3 2005 Giantbomb.com
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040829195327/http://phoenixgamesltd.com/ects.html
  4. ↑ Willie Horden LinkedIn Profile - Only Visible for Logged in Users
  5. ↑ List of Exhibitos at E3 2006 on Giantbomb.com
  6. ↑ Phoenix Games on drimble.nl (Dutch)
  7. ↑ Phoenix Games LTD. at UK Goverment Companies House
  8. ↑ Phoenix Games Group Web Advertisements (2003 - 2008)
  9. ↑ ¡Qué pasa, NENG! (videojuego) - Spanish Wikipedia
  10. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040830004253/http://phoenixgamesltd.com/altron.html
  11. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040830004520/http://phoenixgamesltd.com/naps.html
  12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040830004450/http://phoenixgamesltd.com/arcade.html
  13. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040830004433/http://phoenixgamesltd.com/just.html
  14. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040829195547/http://phoenixgamesltd.com/newpartners.html
  15. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040829195621/http://phoenixgamesltd.com/newgerman.html
  16. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040829195333/http://phoenixgamesltd.com/softwrap.html
  17. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20031111142023/http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/company3.html
  18. ↑ Reddit Post by u/TheGamedawg
  19. ↑ Phoenix Games (1978-1981) on English Wikipedia
  20. ↑ https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2019/04/05/klaas-kersting-phoenix-games/
  21. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20030806023403/http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/company1.html
  22. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20030805211355/http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/contact.html
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