Coktel Vision is a French

France

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 computer game developer.

The company developed adventure

Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

 and action games in the mid-1980s. It was especially known as a computer game publisher of its subsidiary Tomahawk. None of Tomahawk's games were sold outside Europe

Europe

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. Coktel Vision also developed educational game

Educational game

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s, most of them starring ADI the alien.

The popularity of Coktel Vision skyrocketed in 1993 when it became a subsidiary

Subsidiary

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 of Sierra On-Line

Sierra Entertainment

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, which began to sell Coktel Vision's games in the United States

United States

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.

Following Sierra's buyout by Havas

Havas

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 and disappointing sales of its last titles, Coktel Vision is now developing only educational games that are marketed mostly in Europe.

With the sale of Knowledge Adventure to an independent organisation, Vivendi Universal's Interactive Publishing division had a European company through which they developed educational software but no label for it. They subsequently sold Coktel Vision to France-based Mindscape, where it exists today developing titles such as Adibou pretty much exclusively in French.

In Canada

Canada

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, Joël Champagne's I.C.E. Multimédia released the Coktel Vision releases from 1998 to 2004, with Canadian actors instead of the original European ones. However, the Ste-Adèle-based company went bankrupt in November 2004, so the existing releases were sold to another Canadian company, PMD Logisoft.

Games

Games developed by Coktel Vision	Genre	Release date
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Adventure	1988
A.J.'s World of Discovery	Educational	1992
Adiboo and the Energy Thieves Adiboo and the Energy Thieves Adiboo and the Energy Thieves is a 2004 video game. It was released in 2004 published by VU Games and developed by Coktel Vision. A GameCube version was planned but was cancelled....	Educational	2004
Asterix in Morgenland	Adventure	1987
Asterix: Operation Getafix	Action	1989
Bargon Attack	Adventure	1992
The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble is a 1994 French adventure game developed by Coktel Vision...	Adventure	1994
E.S.S. Mega (also known as European Space Simulator Mega)	Simulation	1991
Emmanuelle	Adventure	1989
Fascination	Adventure	1991
Galactic Empire	Simulation	1989
Geisha	Adventure	1990
Gobliiins Gobliiins The Gobliiins series consists of four puzzle adventure games developed and released by Coktel Vision in the early 1990s for the Amiga, Atari ST, PC and Mac platforms. The fourth title was released in 2009...	Adventure	1991
Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon Gobliiins The Gobliiins series consists of four puzzle adventure games developed and released by Coktel Vision in the early 1990s for the Amiga, Atari ST, PC and Mac platforms. The fourth title was released in 2009...	Adventure	1992
Goblins Quest 3 Gobliiins The Gobliiins series consists of four puzzle adventure games developed and released by Coktel Vision in the early 1990s for the Amiga, Atari ST, PC and Mac platforms. The fourth title was released in 2009...	Adventure	1993
Inca Inca (video game) Inca is a 1992 computer game developed by Coktel Vision and published by Sierra On-Line.-Gameplay:Inca has been famous for combining many different genres including space simulator and adventure game to form a certain storyline...	Adventure	1993
Inca II: Wiracocha Inca II: Wiracocha Inca II: Wiracocha is a 1993 computer game developed by Coktel Vision and published by Sierra On-Line. It is the sequel to Inca, which was released in the same year....	Adventure	1993
Legend of Djel	Action	1987
Little Red Riding Hood	Adventure	1991
Lost in Time Lost in Time (video game) Lost in Time is a computer adventure game developed and published by Coktel Vision in 1993. It was promoted as being "The first Interactive Adventure Film using Full Motion Video Technology" and contained four graphical elements: full motion video, hand painted and digitized backgrounds and 3D...	Adventure	1993
Méwilo	Adventure	1987
No Exit	Action	1990
Oliver & Company Oliver & Company Oliver & Company is a 1988 American animated film in which a homeless kitten named Oliver joins a gang of dogs to survive on the 1980s New York City streets. The film was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and became the twenty-seventh animated feature released in the Walt Disney Animated...	Action	1989
Robinson Crusoe	Adventure	1987
Ween: The Prophecy	Adventure	1993
The Last Dynasty	Adventure	1995
Urban Runner Urban Runner Urban Runner is a computer game developed by Coktel Vision and produced by Sierra Entertainment in the mid-1990s. The game is a movie adventure spanning four CD-ROMs controlled by a mouse, divided into Clue and Actions turns...	Adventure	1996