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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

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Former type
  
Subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive

Industry
  
Interactive entertainment

Key people
  
Ted Spieth, Bill Spieth and Rachel Bernstein

Products
  
Imperialism series Trade Empires Tropico 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