Tantalus Media Pty Ltd.

Overview

Tantalus Interactive Ptd. Ltd. was established in 1994 in Melbourne, Australia. The company worked on every major platform since the SNES, and often with established licenses such as SpongeBob SquarePants and the Olson twins. They started as a conversion house, adapting coin-op titles to console and PC (e.g. Manx TT SuperBike), and designing a cross-platform engine. They later starting porting between consoles, converting WipeOut (PSX) to other platforms, and working on Unreal II for the Xbox.

Their first original title was South Park Rally, completed for four platforms in just 7 months. Their first handheld game was ATV Quad Power Racing for the GameBoy Advance, and they released Space Race, their first PS2 game, the same year.

They currently use two cross-platform engines: CRIS for handhelds, with skinned mesh rendering, and The Mercury Engine for new generation consoles.

The studio currently consists of three divisions: New Generation Console, Conversions and Handheld. They currently focus on handhelds, developing for the Nintendo DS, Sony PSP and N-Gage. They also have the wireless company Tantalus Asia.

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