Fresh Games
Encyclopedia
Fresh Games is a game developing label
belonging to Eidos Interactive
. It was created to allow gamers in Europe
and the United States
to experience more obscure Japan
ese titles, that were previously only playable by import. It was created to "shine a spotlight" on quirky, niche titles. Kevin Gill, head of the Fresh Games label, said that these titles would receive less attention while under the banner of Eidos Interactive. The company's intention was to create association between it and original, out of the ordinary games. As of 2007, Fresh Games has only released five games. In a 2002 interview with Kevin Gill, more games were purportedly on the way.
Video game publisher
A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer....
belonging to Eidos Interactive
Eidos Interactive
Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton....
. It was created to allow gamers in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
to experience more obscure Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese titles, that were previously only playable by import. It was created to "shine a spotlight" on quirky, niche titles. Kevin Gill, head of the Fresh Games label, said that these titles would receive less attention while under the banner of Eidos Interactive. The company's intention was to create association between it and original, out of the ordinary games. As of 2007, Fresh Games has only released five games. In a 2002 interview with Kevin Gill, more games were purportedly on the way.
Games
- Legaia 2: Duel SagaLegaia 2: Duel SagaLegaia 2: Duel Saga, known as in Japan, is a 2001 role-playing video game developed by Contrail and published by Sony in Japan and Eidos Interactive in North America and Europe...
- Mad MaestroMad MaestroMad Maestro!, known in Japan as is a classical music rhythm game for the PlayStation 2, developed by Desert Productions and released in the U.S. by Eidos Interactive in 2002 under their "Fresh Games" label. The game features classical songs, such as Swan Lake, Hungarian Dance No...
- Mister MosquitoMister MosquitoMister Mosquito, spelled Mr. Moskeeto in PAL regions and known in Japan as , is a video game developed by Zoom for the PlayStation 2 video game console...
- R-Type FinalR-Type FinalR-Type Final is a horizontally-scrolling shooter video game by Irem for the PlayStation 2 video game console originally planned as the last game in the series; however, R-Type Command was released for the PlayStation Portable in 2007.-Story:...
- Swingerz GolfSwingerz GolfSwingerz Golf is a sports video game released by Telenet Japan in 2002. It is a golf simulation game that allows the player to choose from 14 different characters, each with different strengths and weaknesses, to play on any of the game's 6 courses, varying greatly in difficulty and atmosphere...
External links
- Official website
- Interview with Kevin Gill from Gaming-Age