Bits Studios Explained

Bits Studios
Founder:	Foo Katan
Industry:	Video games
Location City:	London
Location Country:	UK

Bits Studios was a British video game developer. The company has had over 30 titles published over the United States, Europe and Asia on multiple platforms. Bits Studios' parent company, PlayWize, sold off all assets and technologies held by the group in 2008, due to poor trading results. As a result, the company no longer has any trading operations.^[1]

Games developed

Year	Title	System	Publisher
1990	Chase H.Q.^[2]		Taito
1990	Loopz		Mindscape
1991	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves		Virgin Games
1991	Terminator 2: Judgment Day		LJN
1991	R-Type		IREM
1992	The Amazing Spider-Man 2		LJN
1992	Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin	Game Gear	Sega
1992	Castelian	NES, Game Boy	Triffix
1992	GunForce^[3]		Irem
1992			Flying Edge, LJN
1992	R-Type II		IREM
1992			Triffix
1993	Alien³		LJN
1993			LJN
1993	Terminator 2: Judgment Day		Flying Edge, LJN
1993	Saigo no Nindou: Ninja Spirit		Irem
1994	Last Action Hero		Sony Imagesoft
1994	Dream TV		Triffix
1994	Mary Shelley's Frankenstein		Sony Imagesoft
1994	No Escape^[4]		Psygnosis
1994			LJN
1994	Genocide 2		Kemco
1995	The Itchy & Scratchy Game		Acclaim Entertainment
1995	T-Mek		Midway Games
1995	Maximum Roadkill		Take-Two Interactive
1996	Nihilist		Phillips Media
1999	R-Type DX^[5]		Nintendo
2000	Warlocked		Nintendo
2000	Virtual Athlete (VA)	PC/Online	Gamesmagnet
2001	Lab Rat	PC/Online	Gamesmagnet
2002			NDA Productions Sierra Entertainment (Vivendi Universal Games)
2003	Sega Arcade Gallery		Sega
2003	Rogue Ops		Kemco
2005	Constantine		THQ
2006	Payout Poker & Casino^[6]		Namco Bandai Games

Unreleased/Cancelled Games

Title	System
Fido Dido^[7]	Super NES
The Itchy & Scratchy Game	Mega Drive/Genesis
Jet Force Gemini	Game Boy Color
Thieves World	Nintendo 64
Riqa^[8]
Die Hard 64	Nintendo 64
Wizards
Jet Riders	Game Boy Advance

External links

Web site: Bits Studios official website . 2009-08-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080331222327/http://www.bitsstudios.com/ . 31 March 2008 . dmy .
Bits Studios at MobyGames

Notes and References

Web site: Playwize Plc - Annual Report and Financial Statements 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20110715093317/http://www.playwizeplc.com/pdfs/financials/2009%20PLW%20Annual%20Report%20-%20Final%2020.08.09.pdf. dead. 2011-07-15. 2009-08-23. 2009-08-20. PlayWize.
Web site: Bits Studios - Softography (ARCHIVE) . 24 November 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080331231731/http://www.bitsstudios.com/games/retro.asp . 31 March 2008 .
Web site: GunForce for SNES . GameSpot.
Web site: No Escape for Genesis . MobyGames.
Web site: R-Type DX for Game Boy Color . MobyGames.
Web site: Payout Poker & Casino for PSP . MobyGames.
Major . Daniel . June 2022 . FIDO DIDO: The Forgotten mascot of the late-Eighties and Nineties who appeared on 7-Up bottles nearly had his own game. Nearly... . English . 68–69 . . 233 . 21 May 2022.
Web site: Unreleased Nintendo 64 Game 'Die Hard 64' Discovered. Tom. Charnock. Retro Collect . February 27, 2017. 10 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190919193803/http://www.retrocollect.com/News/unreleased-nintendo-64-game-die-hard-64-discovered.html . September 19, 2019.