Argonaut Games PLC was a British video game developer. Founded as Argonaut Software by teenager Jez San in 1982 the company name is a play on the movie title Jason and the Argonauts. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... Jeremy Jez San OBE (born 29 March 1966) is a game programmer who founded Argonaut Software as a teenager in the 1980s. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jason and the Argonauts (1963) is a rousing fantasy adventure movie based upon the characters Jason and the Argonauts of Greek mythology. ...

History

The company produced its first game Skyline Attack for the Commodore 64. It later produced the 3D Starglider games for the Amiga and Atari ST platforms. For the hip hop group, see Commodore 64 (band). ... The rewrite of this article is being devised at Talk:3D computer graphics/Temp. ... Starglider 2 was an early 3D space simulator/flight simulator video game released in 1988 by Argonaut Games for the Amiga, Atari ST and ZX Spectrum home computer systems (interesting point of note re the ST version - it could also run on a mono display). ... The original Amiga (1985) The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced game console. ... The Atari 520ST Atari 1040STF with SC1224 color monitor The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was commercially popular from 1985 to the early 1990s. ...

In 1993 it designed the Super FX 3D graphics accelerator chip for the SNES and developed the game Star Fox along with Nintendo to take advantage of it. The division that designed the chip, Argonaut RISC Core, was spun off in 1998 to market configurable RISC-based chips. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Super FX is probably the most widely recognized coprocessor chip used in select Super Nintendo (SNES) video game cartridges. ... The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, also known as Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, and Australia. ... Star Fox (Japanese: スターフォックス, sutāfokkusu; known as Starwing in Europe, due to copyright issues) was the first game in the Star Fox series of video games. ... Nintendo (Japanese: 任天堂, ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 ) is an international company originally founded in Japan on November 6, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. ... ARC International plc is a company that designs computer processors. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), is a microprocessor CPU design philosophy that favors a smaller and simpler set of instructions that all take about the same amount of time to execute. ...

Argonaut Software was split into Argonaut Technologies and Argonaut Games in 1999. Argonaut Games was floated the following year. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The initials plc after a UK or Irish company name indicate that it is a public limited company, a type of limited company whose shares may be offered for sale to the public. ...

In late October 2004 Argonaut Games called in receivers David Rubin & Partners, fired 100 employees and was put up for sale. Lack of a constant stream of deals with publishers led to cashflow issues and a profit waning earlier in the year. It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...

Selected games

• Skyline Attack, 1984 (Commodore 64)
• Starglider, 1985
• Starglider 2, 1988
• A.T.A.C, 1992 (PC CDROM)
• Bird of Prey, 1992 (AMIGA)
• Star Fox, 1993 (SNES)
• Creature Shock, 1994 (PC CDROM)
• Ren & Stimpy Firedogs, 1994 (SNES)
• FX Fighter, 1995 (PC CDROM)
• Alien Odyssey, 1997 (PC CDROM)
• Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, 1997 (PS1)
• Croc 2, 1999 (PS1)
• The Emperor's New Groove, 2000 (PS1, PC)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 2001 (PS1)
• Red Dog : Superior Firepower, 2000 (DC)
• I-Ninja, 2003 (Xbox, PC, PS2, GameCube)
• Carve, 2004 (Xbox)
• Malice, 2005 (Xbox, PS2)

Starglider 2 was an early 3D space simulator/flight simulator video game released in 1988 by Argonaut Games for the Amiga, Atari ST and ZX Spectrum home computer systems (interesting point of note re the ST version - it could also run on a mono display). ... Starglider 2 was an early 3D space simulator/flight simulator video game released in 1988 by Argonaut Games for the Amiga and Atari ST home computer systems. ... Orders Accipitriformes     Cathartidae     Pandionidae     Accipitridae     Sagittariidae Falconiformes     Falconidae A bird of prey or raptor is a bird that hunts its food, especially one that preys on mammals or other birds. ... Star Fox (Japanese: スターフォックス, sutāfokkusu; known as Starwing in Europe, due to copyright issues) was the first game in the Star Fox series of video games. ... FX Fighter is a fighting PC Video Game released in 1995. ... Croc 2, released in 1999, is the sequel to Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. ... The Emperors New Groove is the thirty-ninth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ... Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone in the United States) is the name of five distinct video games. ... I-Ninja is a video game developed by Argonaut and published by Namco. ...

External links

• Different versions of the official Argonaut Games' homepage archived by Wayback Machine
• An overview of Argonaut Games at Games Investor