GameTek was a video game publisher based in North Miami Beach, Florida

North Miami Beach, Florida

North Miami Beach is a Miami suburban city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. Originally named Fulford in 1926 after Captain William H. Fulford of the United States Coast Guard, the city was incorporated in 1927 as Fulford, but was renamed North Miami Beach in 1931. The population was...

 well known for publishing video game adaptations of game show

Game show

A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

s in the early 1990s. GameTek was a trade name for IJE, the owner of electronic publishing rights to Jeopardy!

Jeopardy!

Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...

 and Wheel of Fortune

Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)

Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, which premiered in 1975. Contestants compete to solve word puzzles, similar to those used in Hangman, to win cash and prizes determined by spinning a large wheel. The title refers to the show's giant carnival wheel that...

. Originally IJE licensed these titles to ShareData of Chandler, Arizona

Chandler, Arizona

-Demographics:As of the Census of 2010, there were 236,123 people, 86,924 households, and 60,212 families residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 73.3% White, 4.8% Black or African American, 1.5% Native American, 8.2% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 21.9% Hispanic or Latino, and 8.3%...

; however, when IJE saw ShareData's success with the titles, IJE decided to publish the titles themselves, resulting in the founding of GameTek.

After establishing distribution for the game show titles, GameTek branched out by licensing Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an titles for the North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

n market, including Frontier: Elite II and The Humans

The Humans

The Humans is a puzzle game published and released by GameTek in 1992. The goal of The Humans varies per level, but is usually to bring at least one of the player-controlled humans to the designated end area, marked by a red tile...

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GameTek games include:

• Wheel of Fortune
  Wheel of Fortune (video game)
  Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, premiering in 1975 with a syndicated version airing in 1983. Since 1986, the show has been adapted into various video games, most based on the syndicated nighttime version. Most versions released before 1998 were...
  
  
• Double Dare
  Double Dare (video game)
  Double Dare is a video game based on the Nickelodeon game show Double Dare. It was released by GameTek for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990, and ported to the NES by Rare.-Game options:...
  
  
• Hollywood Squares
  Hollywood Squares (video game)
  Hollywood Squares is a multiplatform puzzle game based on the television game show of the same name.-Summary:Players have to either agree or disagree with fictitious celebrities to earn squares and make tic-tac-toe. Much like the TV series, winning one of the first two games is worth $500, the...
  
  
• Jeopardy!
  Jeopardy! in merchandising
  Since the revival of Jeopardy! in 1984, the Jeopardy! brand has been used on products in various other formats.-Books:In 1990, host Alex Trebek co-authored The Jeopardy! Book along with Peter Barsocchini, which included boards from some of their past tournament games as well as boards specializing...
  
  
• Quarantine
• Family Feud
• Dark Colony
  Dark Colony
  Dark Colony is a 1997 real-time strategy computer game developed by GameTek and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc.. The game is for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.-Overview:...
  
  
• American Gladiators
  American Gladiators (video game)
  American Gladiators is a video game made in 1991 by for the Amiga, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES and Nintendo Entertainment System. It is based on the popular TV game show, American Gladiators.-Gameplay:...
  
  
• Frontier: Elite II
• The Humans
  The Humans
  The Humans is a puzzle game published and released by GameTek in 1992. The goal of The Humans varies per level, but is usually to bring at least one of the player-controlled humans to the designated end area, marked by a red tile...
  
  
• Brutal: Paws of Fury
  Brutal: Paws of Fury
  Brutal: Paws of Fury is a fighting video game published by GameTek Inc. in 1994. The game features a full cast of anthropomorphic animals as selectable fighters...
  
  
• Star Crusader
  Star crusader
  Star Crusader is a space combat simulation, released in 1994 by Take Two Interactive.- Story :The player assumes the role of Roman Alexandria, a crack pilot for the Gorene Empire in their conquest to assume control of the Ascalon Rift...
  
   (European version)
• Valkyrie
  Valkyrie
  In Norse mythology, a valkyrie is one of a host of female figures who decides who dies in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle , the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla, ruled over by the god Odin...
  
   (for Macintosh)
• Nomad
  Project Nomad
  Nomad is a 1993 computer game developed by Intense! Interactive and Papyrus Design Group, Inc. and published by GameTek. It is a cross between a simple space simulator, a trading game and an adventure. It has only been released for PC DOS operating systems...
  
  
• Robotech: Crystal Dreams
  Robotech: Crystal Dreams
  Robotech: Crystal Dreams was a canceled Robotech video game for the Nintendo 64. The developer, GameTek filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy before the game could be completed, and was subsequently liquidated...
  
  
• Super Street Fighter II Turbo
  Super Street Fighter II Turbo
  Super Street Fighter II Turbo, released in Japan as , is a competitive fighting game released for the arcades by Capcom in . It is the fifth arcade installment in the Street Fighter II sub-series of Street Fighter games, following Super Street Fighter II...
  
   PC
• Frontier: First Encounters
• Frantic Flea
  Frantic Flea
  Frantic Flea is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game that was released on April 1996 to an exclusively North American audience. Its original retail price was $29.99 in American dollars.-Summary:...
  
  
• NET: Zone
• Daemon's Gate: Volume One, Dorovan's Key
• Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle
• Classic Concentration
• The Price Is Right
  The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)
  The Price Is Right is an American game show which was created by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Contestants compete to identify the pricing of merchandise to win cash and prizes. The show is well-known for its signature line of "Come on down!" when the announcer directs newly selected contestants to...
  
  

GameTek filed for bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of an insolvent person or an organisation, that is, one that cannot repay the debts owed to creditors. In most jurisdictions bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor....

 in 1997 and closed in July 1998. Some of the company's assets were acquired by Take 2 Interactive in 1997.