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Interplay Entertainment (formerly Interplay Productions) is an American game developer and publisher. It took over the publishing agreements for Descent from 3D Realms, carrying it on as a series, and also published the Redneck games using their Build engine. Interplay was also known for The Bard's Tale series, the original Fallout games (and precursor Wasteland), ClayFighter, Battle Chess, and for producing the Earthworm Jim games by subsidiary Shiny Entertainment. They also published the action racing game Carmageddon (1997) in North America.
They held the computer license for Dungeons & Dragons, distributing the Baldur's Gate games by BioWare via their Black Isle Studios division, who would develop Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment themselves using BioWare's Infinity Engine. It also held the Star Trek license in the early 1990s, before it passed to MicroProse, Activision, and finally Bethesda. Founder Brian Fargo later established inXile Entertainment, while Rebecca Heineman moved on to Logicware (who ported Interplay's Redneck Rampage to MacOS in 1999).
Games[]
- Wolfenstein 3D (1994; Mac OS and 3DO)
- Descent (1994)
- Descent: Levels of the World (1995)
- Descent: Anniversary Edition (1996)
- Descent II (1995)
- Descent II: Destination Quartzon (1996)
- Descent II: The Infinite Abyss (1996)
- Descent II: Vertigo Series (1996)
- Disrupter (1996; in Europe)
- Realms of the Haunting (1996)
- Descent I and II: The Definitive Collection (1997)
- Descent Maximum (1997)
- Redneck Rampage (1997)
- Redneck Rampage Rides Again (1998)
- Redneck Deer Huntin' (1998)
- Incoming: The Final Conflict (1999; North America)
- Kingpin: Life of Crime (1999)
- Descent 3 (1999)
- Descent 3: Mercenary (1999)
- Mortyr 2093-1944 (1999)
They also released the first-person role-playing games The Bard's Tale (1985-1992) Dragon Wars (1989), Swords and Serpents (1990), and the real-time Stonekeep (1995) and Descent to Undermountain (1998), as well as the third-person shooters MDK (1997), MDK2 (2000), Giants: Citizen Kabuto (2000), Messiah (2000), and Run Like Hell (2002).