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Bethesda Softworks, LLC, a ZeniMax Media

ZeniMax Media

ZeniMax Media Inc. is an United States video game developer, marketer, video game publisher, and distributor of Video game. It is based in Rockville, Maryland....
Company, is a developer

Video game developer

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and publisher

Video game publisher

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of video games. The company, whose parent company is ZeniMax Media

ZeniMax Media

ZeniMax Media Inc. is an United States video game developer, marketer, video game publisher, and distributor of Video game. It is based in Rockville, Maryland....
, is based in Rockville, Maryland

Rockville, Maryland

Rockville is the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. According to the 2007 census update, the city had a total population of 58,706, making it the third largest city in Maryland....
, in the United States

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esda Softworks has been a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment content for over two decades. Founded in 1985 by Christopher Weaver in Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda....
, they moved to Rockville, Maryland

Rockville, Maryland

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Bethesda Softworks, LLC, a ZeniMax Media

ZeniMax Media

ZeniMax Media Inc. is an United States video game developer, marketer, video game publisher, and distributor of Video game. It is based in Rockville, Maryland....
Company, is a developer

Video game developer

Video game publisher

ZeniMax Media

Rockville, Maryland

United States

History

Bethesda Softworks has been a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment content for over two decades. Founded in 1985 by Christopher Weaver in Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda, Maryland

Rockville, Maryland

Personal computer

Video game console

A video game console is an game development that produces a video signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game. The term "video game console" is used to distinguish a machine designed for consumers to buy and use solely for playing video games from a personal computer, which has many other functions, or arcade machi...
games. Weaver, company President Vlatko Andonov recalls, had originally wanted to call the company "Softworks", but found the name taken. "So, our founder, sitting at his kitchen table in Bethesda decided after laborious thought to add Bethesda to Softworks and there you have it!" Bethesda was acquired by Zenimax Media, Inc., co-founded by Weaver, in 1999.

The company's founder, Chris Weaver, had, by Arena's release, transformed the company from a committee-run organization to one run which had to follow "a single person's vision": his. "For 18 years," Weaver stated, "from 1981 through 1999, all the money that was invested in the company was my own." Prior to creating Bethesda, Weaver had worked at MIT on "speech parsers, graphic interface and synthesized worlds - what people now call virtual reality...bleeding edge stuff." He had worked in news broadcast directing at NBC and as the Director of Technology Forecasting for ABC, eventually becoming Chief Engineer to the United States House Energy Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. He had created Bethesda "to see if the PC market was a viable place to develop games". The executive command and personal investment allotted to himself allowed the company to become, in Weaver's words, "a boutique house", a house which "kept rewriting rules and inventing new things." Weaver, in the opinion of journalist Joe Blancato, was a man "used to having good ideas." The first employee after Weaver, Edward Fletcher, was trained as an electrical engineer, had worked as a debugger, computer equipment designer and programmer. Fletcher's vision for the company was humbler than Weaver's, hoping only to design a game for the Amiga

Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer....
at a low cost.

The rewritten rules of Bethesda's first title, Gridiron! were essentially produced by happenstance. Fletcher wanted to produce a football

American football

American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
game that relied on what most sports game

Sports game

A sports game is a personal computer game or video game that simulates the playing of traditional sports. Most sports have been recreated with a game, including baseball, association football, American football, boxing, professional wrestling, cricket, golf, basketball, ice hockey, tennis, bowling, rugby football, indoor lacrosse....
s of the 1980s had before it: lookup table

Lookup table

In computer science, a lookup table is a data structure, usually an array or associative array, often used to replace a runtime computation with a simpler array indexing operation....
s of player statistics

Statistics

Statistics is a Mathematics pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It also provides tools for prediction and forecasting based on data....
. Weaver, though he knew little of the sport, found lookup tables boring, and believed that there must be a better way to make a football game. Weaver thus theorized for the game what was essentially the world's first real-time physics engine, which took into account "momentum, mass, direction, deflection, gravity and other “uninteresting” (physics) things". Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is an international video game developer, marketer, video game publisher and distributor of video games. Established in 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games....
was so impressed with Gridiron! that they hired Bethesda to develop the first John Madden Football. Bethesda eventually decided to sue EA in 1987 for USD$7.3 million, claiming that the company halted cross-console release of Gridiron! after incorporating many of its elements into their own Madden NFL
Madden NFL

Madden NFL is an American football video game series developed by Electronic Arts for EA Sports. The game is named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden , a well-known color commentator for NBC Sports and formerly a successful Super Bowl-winning head coach during the 1970s with the Oakland Raiders....
. Bethesda's early games scored respectably in the gaming press, earning such accolades as "the most accurate and enjoyable simulation of a sport I have ever had the pleasure to play", "the best ice hockey sim yet", for Wayne Gretzky Hockey, and a note that Gridiron! "demands a look".

With a broad panoply of games in role-playing

Computer role-playing game

A computer role-playing game is a broad video game genre originally developed for personal computers and other home computers. While technically not a separate genre, and sharing the same defining characteristics as console RPGs there are nonetheless general tendencies that make them distinct from RPGs on other platforms....
, racing, simulation, and sports, Bethesda Softworks major franchises are distributed worldwide.

Bethesda is credited with the creation of the first physics-based sports simulation (Gridiron) in 1986 for the Atari ST

Atari ST

The Atari ST is a home computer/personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s. It was released by Atari Corporation in 1985....
, Commodore Amiga and Commodore 64/128, which led to Bethesda's creation of the first Madden NFL game for Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

Computer role-playing game

A computer role-playing game is a broad video game genre originally developed for personal computers and other home computers. While technically not a separate genre, and sharing the same defining characteristics as console RPGs there are nonetheless general tendencies that make them distinct from RPGs on other platforms....
series which Weaver initiated in 1992, based upon the original programming of Julian Lefay

Julian Lefay

Julian Lefay, sometimes referred to affectionately as the "Father of The Elder Scrolls", joined Bethesda Softworks shortly after the company's creation in 1987....
. The first chapter of the series, entitled The Elder Scrolls: Arena
The Elder Scrolls: Arena

The Elder Scrolls: Arena is the first game in the Elder Scrolls series. It is a first-person computer role-playing game for MS-DOS, developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1994....
, was released in 1994. Since that time, numerous other chapters have been released. The latest chapter, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, was released in March 2006.

Bethesda is also the publisher for three new Star Trek games, Star Trek - Legacy (For PC

Personal computer

Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft, and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the History of video game consoles of video game consoles....
), Star Trek - Tactical Assault (for Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS

The is a dual-screen handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in 2004 in video gaming in Canada, the United States, and Japan....
/PlayStation Portable

PlayStation Portable

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), and Star Trek - Encounters (PS2).

In 2004, Bethesda acquired the Fallout franchise from Interplay Entertainment

Interplay Entertainment

Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an United States video game video game publisher and video game developer....
, however Interplay still retains the MMO rights to said franchise. Todd Howard said in January 2007 that "We started work [on Fallout 3
Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios, and is the third major game in the Fallout . The game was released in North America on October 28, 2008, in Europe and Australia on October 30, 2008, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 31, 2008....
] in late 2004 with a few people. We only had about 10 people on it until Oblivion wrapped, but most of our staff is on it now.". Fallout 3 was released on October 28, 2008 to positive reviews.

Logos

Bethesda uses two logos. "Bethesda Game Studios" is often used to designate games developed "in house" by its own team. This may occasionally be seen on games published in foreign countries by outside publishers that were originally developed by Bethesda.

"Bethesda Softworks" is often used to designate games "published" by Bethesda, but not always developed by them. This usage has not always been consistent from game to game.

The Elder Scrolls series

1994 – The Elder Scrolls: Arena
The Elder Scrolls: Arena

The Elder Scrolls: Arena is the first game in the Elder Scrolls series. It is a first-person computer role-playing game for MS-DOS, developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1994....
1996 – The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is a first-person computer role-playing game for MS-DOS, developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1996 in video games....
1997 – The Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire
The Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire

An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire is a 1997 in video gaming first-person action game computer role-playing game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks, set in the world of The Elder Scrolls....
1998 – The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard
The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard is an action-adventure game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks with a third person style, set in the world of The Elder Scrolls....
2002 – The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, commonly referred to simply as Morrowind, is a single player computer role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, and published by Bethesda Softworks and Ubisoft....
2002 – The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal
The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal

The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal is the first expansion for Bethesda Softworks' The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. It takes place in the temple/city of Mournhold, the capital of Morrowind, located in the larger city of Almalexia....
2003 – The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon
The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon

The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon is the second expansion pack for Bethesda Softworks' The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. While it was originally released as an expansion set for Microsoft Windows, Bloodmoon is included within the Morrowind: Game of the Year edition for Microsoft Windows....
2003 – The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold
The Elder Scrolls Travels

The Elder Scrolls Travels are a series of portable games in The Elder Scrolls series of video games published by Bethesda Softworks for Java platform-enabled cell phones, Nokia's N-Gage, and Sony's PlayStation Portable....
2004 – The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey
The Elder Scrolls Travels

The Elder Scrolls Travels are a series of portable games in The Elder Scrolls series of video games published by Bethesda Softworks for Java platform-enabled cell phones, Nokia's N-Gage, and Sony's PlayStation Portable....
2004 – The Elder Scrolls Travels: Dawnstar
The Elder Scrolls Travels

The Elder Scrolls Travels are a series of portable games in The Elder Scrolls series of video games published by Bethesda Softworks for Java platform-enabled cell phones, Nokia's N-Gage, and Sony's PlayStation Portable....
2006 – The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a single-player Computer role-playing game video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks and the Take-Two Interactive subsidiary 2K Games....
2006 – The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine
The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine

The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine is an official plug-in for the computer role-playing game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Announced on October 17, 2006 for release on November 21, 2006, the expansion was developed, published, and released in North America by Bethesda Softworks; in Europe, the game was co-published with Ubiso...
2007 – The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles
The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles

The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles is the official expansion pack for the computer role-playing game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It was released for Microsoft Windows in a boxed retail edition on March 27 2007, with the Xbox 360 version was released digitally on the Xbox Live Marketplace....
2010 - The Elder Scrolls V

The Elder Scrolls Travel Series: Shadowkey, Stormhold, and Dawnstar were co-developed by sister studio Vir2L, a ZeniMax Media company.

Games to be published by Bethesda Softworks

Game	Release Date	Platforms	Home Page
Rogue Warrior: Black Razor Rogue Warrior: Black Razor Rogue Warrior: Black Razor is an upcoming video game developed by Zombie Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks using the Unreal 3 engine. The game is based on the series of novels by Richard Marcinko....	2009	Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

List of games by Bethesda Softworks

Games developed and published by Bethesda

Year	Title	Genres	Platforms
1986	Gridiron!	Sports Sports game A sports game is a personal computer game or video game that simulates the playing of traditional sports. Most sports have been recreated with a game, including baseball, association football, American football, boxing, professional wrestling, cricket, golf, basketball, ice hockey, tennis, bowling, rugby football, indoor lacrosse....	Atari ST Atari ST The Atari ST is a home computer/personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s. It was released by Atari Corporation in 1985.... , Amiga Amiga The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer.... , Commodore 64 Commodore 64 The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August, 1982, at a price of United States dollar595. Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore MAX Machine, the C64 features 64 kilobytes of Random-access memory with sound and graphics performance that were superior to IBM-compatible computers of tha...
1988	Wayne Gretzky Hockey	Sports	Amiga, Atari ST, DOS DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is a shorthand term for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me.... , NES Nintendo Entertainment System The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe and Australia in . In most of Asia, including Japan , the Philippines, China, Vietnam and Singapore, it was released as the ....
1990	Wayne Gretzky Hockey 2	Sports	DOS
1990	Terminator, The	Free-form Action Action game An action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand-eye coordination and reaction-time. Action games are a vast genre that includes diverse subgenres such as fighting games, first-person shooters, and platform games.... , Adventure Adventure game An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story that is driven by exploration and puzzle instead of physical challenges such as combat....	DOS
1990	Hockey League Simulator	Sports management Sports game A sports game is a personal computer game or video game that simulates the playing of traditional sports. Most sports have been recreated with a game, including baseball, association football, American football, boxing, professional wrestling, cricket, golf, basketball, ice hockey, tennis, bowling, rugby football, indoor lacrosse....	Amiga, DOS
1991	Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3	Sports	DOS
1991	Home Alone	Action	NES
1991	NCAA Basketball: Road To The Final Four ('91/'92 Edition)	Sports	DOS
1992	Terminator 2029	Action, Strategy Strategy game A strategy game is a game in which the players' decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome. Many games include this element to a greater or lesser degree, making demarcation difficult....	DOS
1992	Hockey League Simulator 2	Sports management Sports game A sports game is a personal computer game or video game that simulates the playing of traditional sports. Most sports have been recreated with a game, including baseball, association football, American football, boxing, professional wrestling, cricket, golf, basketball, ice hockey, tennis, bowling, rugby football, indoor lacrosse....	DOS
1993	Terminator: Rampage, The	Action	DOS
1993	Terminator 2029: Operation Scour Add-on	Action, Strategy	DOS
1993	The Elder Scrolls: Arena The Elder Scrolls: Arena *The Elder Scrolls: Arena* is the first game in the Elder Scrolls series. It is a first-person computer role-playing game for MS-DOS, developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1994....	Action, Adventure, RPG Computer role-playing game A computer role-playing game is a broad video game genre originally developed for personal computers and other home computers. While technically not a separate genre, and sharing the same defining characteristics as console RPGs there are nonetheless general tendencies that make them distinct from RPGs on other platforms....	DOS
1994	Terminator 2029 - The Deluxe CD Edition	Action, Strategy	DOS
1994	NCAA: Road to the Final Four 2	Sports	DOS
1994	Delta V Delta-V (Video Game) *Delta V* is a first-person Science Fiction computer game for MS-DOS, developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1994 in video games. It is a spiritual predecessor to XCAR Experimental Racing....	Action, Racing Racing game A racing game is a genre of Video games. Racing games are either in the first or third person perspective. They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings, and feature any type of land, air, or sea vehicles....	DOS
1995	Terminator: Future Shock Terminator: Future Shock *The Terminator: Future Shock* is a first-person shooter computer game, based in the fictional The Terminator universe. It was released by Bethesda Softworks in 1995 in video gaming....	Action	DOS
1996	SkyNET	Action	DOS
1996	The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall *The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall* is a first-person computer role-playing game for MS-DOS, developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1996 in video games....	Adventure, RPG	DOS
1997	The Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire The Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire *An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire* is a 1997 in video gaming first-person action game computer role-playing game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks, set in the world of The Elder Scrolls....	Action RPG Action role-playing game An action role-playing game is a video game based on role-playing combat systems, and typified by a heavy emphasis on real-time combat against large numbers of enemies....	DOS, Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces ....
1997	PBA Bowling	Sports	Windows
1997	XCar: Experimental Racing	Racing Racing game A racing game is a genre of Video games. Racing games are either in the first or third person perspective. They may be based on anything from real-world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings, and feature any type of land, air, or sea vehicles.... Simulation Vehicle simulation game Vehicle simulation games are a genre of video games which attempt to provide the player with a realistic interpretation of operating various kinds of vehicles....	DOS
1998	Burnout: Championship Drag Racing	Racing	DOS
1998	The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard *The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard* is an action-adventure game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks with a third person style, set in the world of The Elder Scrolls....	Action RPG Action role-playing game An action role-playing game is a video game based on role-playing combat systems, and typified by a heavy emphasis on real-time combat against large numbers of enemies....	Windows
1998	Symbiocom	Adventure	Windows
1998	Zero Critical Zero Critical Zero Critical is a 1999 science-fiction computer game for Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows XP. It is a traditional Third-person shooter and fully 3D computer graphics graphic adventure with a heavy emphasis on story and characters....	Adventure	Windows
1999	NIRA Intense Import Drag Racing	Racing	Windows
1999	Skip Barber Racing	Racing	Windows
2000	IHRA Drag Racing	Racing	Windows, PlayStation PlayStation The PlayStation is a 32-bit history of video game consoles video game console released by Sony Computer Entertainment in December .The PlayStation was the first of the ubiquitous PlayStation ....
2000	PBA Bowling 2	Sports	Windows
2000	PBA Bowling 2001	Sports	Windows, Dreamcast (unreleased but gold-version leaked)
2000	Sea Dogs	Adventure	Windows,
2001	IHRA Motorsports	Racing	Windows
2001	IHRA Drag Racing 2	Racing	PlayStation 2 PlayStation 2 The PlayStation 2 is a History of video game consoles video game console manufactured by Sony. The successor to the PlayStation, and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 2 forms part of the PlayStation of video game consoles....
2001	Echelon Echelon (flight simulator) Echelon is a 3D computer graphics science fiction flight simulator designed by Russian developers MADIA. It involves flying futuristic fighter aircrafts in combat scenarios....	Action, Simulation	Windows
2002	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind *The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, commonly referred to simply as Morrowind*, is a single player computer role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios, and published by Bethesda Softworks and Ubisoft....	Adventure, RPG	Windows, Xbox Xbox The Xbox is a History of video games video game console produced by Microsoft. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market, and competed with Sony's PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's GameCube....
2002	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Collector's Edition)	Adventure, RPG	Windows
2002	The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal *The Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal* is the first expansion for Bethesda Softworks' The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. It takes place in the temple/city of Mournhold, the capital of Morrowind, located in the larger city of Almalexia....	Adventure, RPG	Windows
2003	IHRA Drag Racing 2004	Racing	Xbox
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean	Adventure	Xbox
2003	The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon *The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon* is the second expansion pack for Bethesda Softworks' The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. While it was originally released as an expansion set for Microsoft Windows, Bloodmoon is included within the Morrowind: Game of the Year edition for Microsoft Windows....	Adventure, RPG	Windows
2003	The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon & Tribunal Duopack	Adventure, RPG	Windows
2003	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Game of the Year Edition)	Adventure, RPG	Windows, Xbox
2003	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Platinum Edition)	Adventure, RPG	Xbox
2004	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Game of the Year - Platinum Edition)	Adventure, RPG	Xbox
2004	IHRA Drag Professional Racing 2005	Racing	Xbox, PlayStation 2
2004	AMF Bowling 2004	Sports	Xbox, PlayStation 2
2006	IHRA Drag Racing: Sportsman Edition	Racing	Windows, Xbox, PlayStation 2
2008	Fallout 3 Fallout 3 *Fallout 3* is an action role-playing game released by Bethesda Game Studios, and is the third major game in the Fallout . The game was released in North America on October 28, 2008, in Europe and Australia on October 30, 2008, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on October 31, 2008....	Action RPG	Xbox 360, Windows, PlayStation 3

Games developed by Bethesda, but externally published

Title	Genres	Platforms	Publisher
1991	Home Alone Home Alone *Home Alone* is a 1990 in film List of Christmas films written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus . The film features Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation....	Action	NES Nintendo Entertainment System The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe and Australia in . In most of Asia, including Japan , the Philippines, China, Vietnam and Singapore, it was released as the ....	THQ THQ THQ Inc. is an Worldwide international United States Video game developer and Video game publisher of video games. Founded in 1989, the company develops products for video game consoles, handheld game systems, as well as for personal computers and wireless devices....
1991	Where's Waldo? Where's Waldo? (video game) *Where's Waldo* was the first Waldo video game. The product was loosely based on the book Where's Waldo. The player's goal is to find Waldo in various pictures in order to progress through the game....	Puzzle	NES	THQ
2004	High Rollers Casino	Cards Card game A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary things with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games .... , Gambling Gambling Gambling is the wikt:wager#Verb of money or something of material Value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods....	Xbox Xbox The Xbox is a History of video games video game console produced by Microsoft. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market, and competed with Sony's PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's GameCube....	Mud Duck Productions
2006	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion *The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion* is a single-player Computer role-playing game video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks and the Take-Two Interactive subsidiary 2K Games....	Action RPG Action role-playing game An action role-playing game is a video game based on role-playing combat systems, and typified by a heavy emphasis on real-time combat against large numbers of enemies....	Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces .... , Xbox 360 Xbox 360 The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft, and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the History of video game consoles of video game consoles....	2K Games 2K Games 2K Games is a video game publishing subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive which also owns Rockstar Games notable for the Grand Theft Auto series....
2007			PlayStation 3 PlayStation 3 The PlayStation 3 is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment, and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation ....	2K Games
2007	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Game of the Year Edition)	Action RPG Action role-playing game An action role-playing game is a video game based on role-playing combat systems, and typified by a heavy emphasis on real-time combat against large numbers of enemies....	Windows, Xbox 360, PS3 (US)	2K Games (Xbox360) Ubisoft (PS3)

Games produced by Bethesda

The following games were produced by Bethesda, but externally developed. (Note: Vir2L is a division of ZeniMax Media Inc., Bethesda's parent company, and Vir2L calls themselves a 'sister company' to Bethesda on their website.)

Title	Genres	Platforms	Developer
1998	F-16 Aggressor	Vehicle simulation Vehicle simulation game Vehicle simulation games are a genre of video games which attempt to provide the player with a realistic interpretation of operating various kinds of vehicles....	Windows	Virgin Interactive Virgin Interactive Virgin Interactive was a successful and influential United Kingdom video game publisher. It was formed as Virgin Games Ltd. in 1981. The company became much larger after purchasing the budget label, Mastertronic in 1987....
1998	Magic and Mayhem	Action, Strategy	Windows	Mythos Games
2000	Gromada	Action	Windows	Buka Entertainment Buka Entertainment Buka Entertainment is a Russian software development and distribution company....
2000	Sea Dogs Sea Dogs *Sea Dogs* is a Russian 2000 computer role-playing game for Microsoft Windows video game developer by Akella and published by Bethesda Softworks....	Action, RPG, Simulation, Strategy	Windows	Akella Akella Akella is a Russian software company specializing in the video game developer, video game publisher and distribution of computer games and multimedia products....
2001	Magic & Mayhem: The Art of Magic	RPG, Strategy	Windows	Mythos Games
2002	Family Card Games Fun Pack	Cards	PlayStation	Mud Duck Productions
2003	Puzznic	Puzzle, Action	PlayStation	Altron Altron *Altron* is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. It has developed or published games for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Super Nintendo, Sega Mega Drive, Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo DS, Game Boy and Game Boy Color video game systems as well as for the personal computer....
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean Pirates of the Caribbean (video game) *Pirates of the Caribbean* is a 2003 video game for Xbox and Microsoft Windows, developed by Akella and published by Bethesda Softworks. A Sony PlayStation 2 version was also originally in development, but was later cancelled....	RPG	Windows, Xbox	Akella Akella Akella is a Russian software company specializing in the video game developer, video game publisher and distribution of computer games and multimedia products....
2003	The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold The Elder Scrolls Travels *The Elder Scrolls Travels* are a series of portable games in The Elder Scrolls series of video games published by Bethesda Softworks for Java platform-enabled cell phones, Nokia's N-Gage, and Sony's PlayStation Portable....	Adventure, RPG	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java .... and BREW Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless BREW is an application development platform created by QUALCOMM for telephone. It was originally developed for CDMA handsets, but has since been ported to other air interfaces including GSM/GPRS.... enabled mobile devices	Vir2L, co-published by MFORMA
2004	Powerdrome	Racing	Xbox, PlayStation 2	Argonaut Games Argonaut Games Argonaut Games plc was a United Kingdom video game developer. Founded as Argonaut Software by teenager Jez San in 1982 the company name is a play on his name and the movie title Jason and the Argonauts .... , co-published by Mud Duck Productions
2004	The Elder Scrolls Travels: Dawnstar The Elder Scrolls Travels *The Elder Scrolls Travels* are a series of portable games in The Elder Scrolls series of video games published by Bethesda Softworks for Java platform-enabled cell phones, Nokia's N-Gage, and Sony's PlayStation Portable....	Adventure, RPG	Java and BREW enabled mobile devices	Vir2L
2004	The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey The Elder Scrolls Travels *The Elder Scrolls Travels* are a series of portable games in The Elder Scrolls series of video games published by Bethesda Softworks for Java platform-enabled cell phones, Nokia's N-Gage, and Sony's PlayStation Portable....	Adventure, RPG	N-Gage N-Gage The N-Gage is a mobile telephone and handheld game system based on the Nokia Series 60 platform. It started selling on October 7, 2003. It attempted to lure gamers away from the Game Boy Advance by including cellphone functionality....	Vir2L co-published by Nokia Nokia Nokia Corporation is a Finland Multinational corporation communications corporation, headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki....
2004	IHRA Drag Racing Multiplayer	Racing	Java and BREW enabled mobile devices	Vir2L, co-published by MFORMA
2005, 2006	Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth *Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth* is a Lovecraftian horror first-person action/adventure video game developed by Headfirst Productions and published by Bethesda Softworks in 2005, in conjunction with 2K Games....	Adventure	Xbox, Windows	Headfirst Productions Headfirst Productions Headfirst Productions was a video game studio established by father and son Mike and Simon Woodroffe in 1998 . The studio was an Independent video game development of games for both the Video game console and Personal computer market....
2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow *Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow* is a video game by 7 Studios for the PS2 and Personal computer. It features playable levels based on the experiences of Captain Jack Sparrow after the events of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl....	Adventure	Windows (Not Vista 64), PlayStation 2	7 Studios 7 Studios 7 Studios is an electronic entertainment company located in West Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1999 by Lewis Peterson, 7 Studios has created console video games based on the Fantastic Four and Shrek the Third movies.... , Buena Vista Games Buena Vista Games Disney Interactive Studios, Inc. , is an International United States video game company. It self-publishes and distributes a broad portfolio of multi-platform video games and interactive entertainment worldwide.... , co-published by Ubisoft Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment is a computer game and video game publisher and video game developer with headquarters in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France....
2006	Star Trek Encounters	Strategy	Playstation 2 PlayStation 2 The PlayStation 2 is a History of video game consoles video game console manufactured by Sony. The successor to the PlayStation, and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 2 forms part of the PlayStation of video game consoles....	4J Studios 4J Studios 4J Studios is a video game developer based in Dundee, Scotland....
2006	Star Trek Legacy	Strategy	Windows, Xbox	Mad Doc Software Mad Doc Software Rockstar New England, formerly Mad Doc Software, is a computer game video game developer founded in 1998 in video gaming by Dr. Ian Lane Davis....
2006	Star Trek: Tactical Assault Star Trek: Tactical Assault *Star Trek: Tactical Assault* is a Star Trek: The Original Series video game for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable that was developed by Quicksilver Software, also the creators of Star Trek: Starfleet Command....	Strategy	PSP PlayStation Portable The PlayStation Portable is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Development of the console was first announced during History of E3#During the Rise of Online Gaming , and it was unveiled on May 11, 2004 at a Sony press conference before E3 2004.... , Nintendo DS Nintendo DS The is a dual-screen handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in 2004 in video gaming in Canada, the United States, and Japan....	Quicksilver Software Quicksilver Software Quicksilver Software, Inc. was founded in 1984 by three Intellivision programmers from Mattel Electronics. Two of the three, William Fisher and Stephen Roney, currently work there....
2007	Star Trek: Conquest Star Trek: Conquest *Star Trek: Conquest* is a video game set in the Star Trek fictional universe. The game features both turn-based strategy and real time strategy gameplay....	Strategy	Wii Wii The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo. As a History of video game consoles console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.... , PS2 PlayStation 2 The PlayStation 2 is a History of video game consoles video game console manufactured by Sony. The successor to the PlayStation, and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 2 forms part of the PlayStation of video game consoles....	4J Studios 4J Studios 4J Studios is a video game developer based in Dundee, Scotland....
2008	Bully Bully (video game) *Bully, also known as Canis Canem Edit* outside of North America, for the PAL PlayStation 2 version, is a third person action-adventure game video game released by Rockstar Vancouver for the PlayStation 2 on 17 October 2006 in the United States, and 25 October 2006 in the United Kingdom.... (Publishing in Japan only)	Action	PS2 PlayStation 2 The PlayStation 2 is a History of video game consoles video game console manufactured by Sony. The successor to the PlayStation, and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 2 forms part of the PlayStation of video game consoles.... , Xbox 360 Xbox 360 The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft, and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the History of video game consoles of video game consoles....	Rockstar Vancouver Rockstar Vancouver Rockstar Vancouver is a video game studio located in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. Rockstar Vancouver released Bully , a controversial title exclusively for the PlayStation 2 on October 17, 2006.... , Rockstar New England
2008	AMF Bowling World Lanes AMF Bowling World Lanes *AMF Bowling World Lanes* is a sports game video game developed by Front Line Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks on November 18, 2008 for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console....	Sports	Wii Wii The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo. As a History of video game consoles console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3....	Front Line Studios

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- Contains a brief bio and games credit list for Bethesda founder Christopher Weaver