Cryo Interactive Entertainment
Overview
In 1990, the development team
Exxos left parent company
ERE Informatique and changed its name to Cryo.
Their first game,
Extase, was released the following year, published by Virgin. Cryo was not a registered company at this time, just a development team. Their original logo showed what would become the familiar Cryo logo-image (a woman's face, in a cryo-tube), set inside an inverted form of the Exxos logo-image.
In 1992, Cryo Interactive Entertainment became an official company, with three co-directors;
Philippe Ulrich,
Remi Herbulot and
Jean-Martial Lefranc.
They had great success with their next game,
Dune, which was published that year, also by Virgin. A wide variety of games followed, including early CD-ROM best-seller
MegaRace and interactive adventures like
Lost Eden and
Atlantis. Cryo's games were published either by Virgin or Mindscape until 1996, when Cryo became its own publisher within Europe.
In 2002, the company was declared bankrupt shortly after
Frank Herbert's Dune had flopped. Parts of the company were absorbed by
DreamCatcher Interactive, who had published Cryo's games in North America since 1996. Successful series like
Cryo's Atlantis Series were continued under the new label.
Contributed by
Tomer Gabel 
(4495) on Nov 04, 1999. [
revised by :
freaky_hardware (629) and
Sam Jeffreys (2214)].
