Frog City Software

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Fate Shut-down Headquarters San Francisco Ceased operations 2006		Defunct 2006 Founder Rachel Bernstein Parent organization Take-Two Interactive

Former type Subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Industry Interactive entertainment Key people Ted Spieth, Bill Spieth and Rachel Bernstein Products Imperialism seriesTrade EmpiresTropico 2: Pirate Cove Founded 1995, San Francisco, California, United States Video games Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, Imperialism II: Age of Exploration, Imperialism, Trade Empires, Snow

Frog City Software, Inc. was a video game developer which focused on strategy games, opened in 1995. Frog City Software was a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive until they closed it in 2006.

The company was founded by the brothers Bill Spieth and Ted Spieth and by Rachel Bernstein.

In 2004 Frog City was bought by Gathering, which was itself bought by Take 2 Interactive in 2005.

Frog City was shut down in 2006; it was the fourth game development studio to be shut down by Take-Two Interactive during that year. In April of that year, veterans of Frog City including the founders Ted Spieth, Bill Spieth and Rachel Bernstein started a new game development studio called Sidecar Studios. In 2007 Sidecar Studios was closed.

In 2007 Bernstein joined Electronic Arts as a Senior Producer.

Games developed

Imperialism, 1997.

Imperialism II: Age of Exploration, 1999.

Trade Empires, 2001. - Used the AXVI game engine, initially designed for Pantheon.

Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, 2003.

Snow , 2005. - Strategy game about drug trafficking that was cancelled in 2006.

Pantheon, 1998 - This game, which would use Frog City's new AXVI engine, was a RTS, role-playing video game about the Greek gods, but its development was cancelled in 2000.

References

Frog City Software Wikipedia

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