Gremlin scored big with the Premier Manager series still in the early 1990s, and then with Actua Soccer, the first football game in full 3D, while having success with other games such as Lotus Turbo Challenge, Zool, Motorhead or Hardwar. Following EA's success with the EA Sports brand, Gremlin also released their own sports videogame series, adding Golf, Tennis and Ice Hockey to their Actua Sports series.
In 1999 they were bought by Infogrames (now Atari) and renamed Infogrames Sheffield House by a reported fee around £21 M, but the studio closed in 2001. Long before being bought by Infogrames, Gremlin themselves acquired DMA Design in 1996.
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Mobygames info on Gremlin (http://www.mobygames.com/company/sheet/companyId,114/)
The concept of the Gremlins as responsible for sabotaging aircraft is said to have originated in a tale told among men of the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom serving in the Middle East during World War II.
The lore of the gremlin was reportedly told to Roald Dahl by colleagues of his in the 80th squadron of the Royal Air Force during his own service in the Middle East.
The gremlins in these movies had nothing obvious to do with aircraft in particular, although they were portrayed as adept at subverting or sabotaging mechanical systems, especially the in the second movie which took place in a high-tech office tower.
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