Kalisto Entertainment was a French video game development company founded by
Nicolas Gaume at age 19. They are mostly known for developing ''
Fury of the Furries'' and the ''
Nightmare Creatures'' series.
The company began as Atreid Concept in 1990
and later created the distribution label Kalisto in 1992, which became Kalisto Entertainment's namesake. In late 1993, Atreid Concept became part of
Mindscape Inc. as Mindscape Bordeaux. Nicolas Gaume bought Mindscape Bordeaux back in 1996, and renamed the company Kalisto Entertainment.
[ In 2000, it expanded operations when the company acquired Texas-based developer Daylight Productions, and renamed itself to Kalisto Entertainment USA.
Kalisto Entertainment declared bankruptcy in 2002 (same time as the ]Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. This period of market growth coincided with the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web and the Interne ...
), and company officials were found without fault by a criminal court in 2006. Employers of the U.S. office went on to start up a new company Big Sky Interactive, which was later blacklisted by THQ and later shut down in 2003. Civil trials are still under way. Nicolas Gaume was condemned to pay 200,000 euros by the French Stock Market Authority for repeated misinformation of his stockholders.
Games
*'' S.C.OUT'' (1992)
*''Cogito'' (1992)
*'' Fury of the Furries'' (1993)
*'' Pac-In-Time'' (1994)
*'' Savage Warriors'' (1995)
*'' Al Unser Jr. Arcade Racing'' (1995)
*''Dark Earth
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'' (1997)
*'' Nightmare Creatures'' (1997)
*'' Ultimate Race Pro'' (1998)
*''The Fifth Element
''The Fifth Element'' () is a 1997 English-language French science-fiction action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, and co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, an ...
'' (1998)
*'' Nightmare Creatures II'' (2000)
*'' 4 Wheel Thunder'' (2000)
*'' New York Race'' (2001)
*''Lucky Luke: Western Fever'' (2001)
*'' Castleween'' (2002)
Cancelled
*'' Highlander: The Gathering'' (trailer title)
*''Nightmare Creatures III: Angel of Darkness''
*''Super Farm
''Super Farm'' is a party video game with a farmyard theme developed by Asobo Studio and published by Ignition Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. Originally developed by Kalisto Entertainment, the developers of the game purchased the rights ...
'' (sold to Asobo Studio
Asobo Studio SAS is a French video game developer based in Bordeaux and founded in 2002. The studio is most known for developing video game adaptations of several Pixar movies, ''A Plague Tale: Innocence'', and the 2020 and 2024 versions of ''Mi ...
)
*'' Fury of the Furries 3D[https://www.unseen64.net/2020/11/09/fury-furries-3d-ps2-cancelled/]
References
External links
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Video game development companies
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Video game companies established in 1990
Video game companies disestablished in 2002
Defunct video game companies of France
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French companies disestablished in 2002
French companies established in 1990