Radica Games Explained
| Radica Games |
| Industry: | Video gaming |
| Fate: | Absorbed into Mattel in 2010s |
| Predecessors: | --> |
| Successor: | Mattel |
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| Areas Served: | --> |
| Owners: | --> |
| Num Employees: | 2500 |
| Num Employees Year: | 1998 |
| Parent: | Mattel |
Radica Games Limited was a Hong Kong[1] company that produced electronic games, founded in 1983. It began by producing electronic souvenir games for casinos.[2] In the late 1990s, it became known for its Bass Fishin line of games.[1] On October 3, 2006, Mattel, Inc. announced the completion of their acquisition of Radica.[3] While Radica produced electronic handheld games based on casino or card games, it has branched out into toys, board games, and video game accessories.[4]
Products
Product lines under Radica, past and present, include:
- Stealth Assault - electronic motion sensor game where player tilts the device to fly a stealth plane shooting down jets
- PlayTV - examples include PlayTV Football, Skateboarding, Baseball and Golf
- PlayTV Legends - formerly known as "Arcade Legends", the line includes plug-n-play systems featuring video games licensed from Sega and Taito, as well as Tetris
- Skannerz
- 20Q - electronic toy version
- Cube World - electronic toy featuring stick people as characters on black-and-white LCD screens, 2005 - 2008, each cube has contacts on top, bottom, and sides, 3 push buttons, and an internal motion sensor. Not to be confused with the game of the same name.
- Series 1 Cube Types: 'Scoop' Orange, 'Slim' Purple, 'Whip' Yellow, 'Dodger' Red
- Series 2 Cube Types: 'Mic' Pink, 'Hans' Light Blue, 'Handy' Dark Blue, 'Dusty' Light green (as pictured ->)
- Series 3 Cube Types: 'Chief' Blue, 'Toner' Gray, 'Dash' Green, 'Sparky' Brown.[5]
- Series 4 Cube Types: 'Slugger' Light Red, 'Kicks' Green, 'Slam' Orange, 'Grinder' Tan
- Series 5 Cube Types (with mods): 'Dart' Purple, 'Hip Hop' Black, 'Splash' Blue, 'Sci-Fi' White
- Series Jumbo Cube Types: 'Block Bash' Yellow-Orange, 'Global Getaway' Blue
- U.B. Funkeys - August 26, 2007 - 2010
- Talking Buzz Lightyear
- Loopz
- Nascar Racer - 1998
- I-Combat - a 3D game that is worn over the head
- Big Screen Sudoku game
- Blackjack 21
- Poker-Blackjack Lite
- Solitare
- Color Screen Uno - backlit color Uno card game
- Fijit Friends
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: About Us . Radica Games Ltd. . 21 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/19981205100938/http://www.radicagames.com/html/about_us.html . 5 December 1998 . dead.
- Web site: Radica Games Limited. sciencemuseum.org.uk.
- Web site: Mattel Inc.: Investor Relations . shareholder.com. 21 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071017133534/http://shareholder.com/mattel/news/20061003-213209.cfm . 17 October 2007 . 3 October 2006.
- Web site: Cube World toy by Radica: A fun interactive handheld game. www.fabcollectibles.com. en-US. 2022-04-01.
- http://service.mattel.com/instruction_sheets/i6063.pdf Cube World Series 3 instruction manual
