Bit Managers

Bit ManagersType| Private

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Industry| Video games
Fate| Bought by Virtual Toys
Founded| 1988 (as "New Frontier")
Founder| Alberto Jose González (co-founder)
Defunct| 2005
Headquarters| Barcelona, Spain

Bit Managers, formerly known as New Frontier, was a video game developer based in Barcelona (Spain). It was co-founded by Alberto Jose González, who composed the music for all of their games except Bang!, a coin-operated arcade machine. [1]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Games
* 2.1 Bang!
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

The company was founded in 1988 as "New Frontier", initially programming games for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX computer systems. The company at first met with only modest success. In 1992, the company changed its name to Bit Managers and began to make games for Nintendo consoles (especially for Game Boy). It focused on creating innovative games based on Franco-Belgian comics such as Asterix, The Smurfs or The Adventures of Tintin for a client company, Infogrames.

In 1997, Bit Managers was chosen by Acclaim Entertainment to develop some games of the Turok series for Game Boy. In 1998, the year of the launch of Game Boy Color, Bit Managers was the first third-party developer to finish two Game Boy Color titles (Turok 2 and Sylvester & Tweety).

That same year, the company was bought by a Spanish arcade video gaming company Gaelco. Bit Managers also ported the Gaelco arcade game Radikal Bikers to PlayStation shortly afterward.

In 2001, the former principals of Bit Managers re-purchased the company. Bit Managers continued their relationship with Infogrames, developing several games for Game Boy Advance.

In 2005, the Spanish video game company Virtual Toys, bought Bit Managers. That business relationship continues and Bit Managers is a subsidiary of Virtual Toys Barcelona.[2]

## Games

Title  | Console  | Publisher  | Date

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The Morning Adventure | Game Boy Advance  | Virtual Toys  | Summer 2003
Inspector Gadget Racing | Game Boy Advance  | LSP  | Christmas 2002
The Revenge of the Smurfs | Game Boy Advance  | Infogrames | Autumn 2002
Droopy's Tennis Open | Game Boy Advance  | LSP  | Summer 2002
Asterix & Obelix: Bash Them All! | Game Boy Advance  | Infogrames  | February 2002
Baby Felix Halloween | Game Boy Color  | LSP  | Christmas 2001
Tintin in Tibet | Game Boy Color  | Infogrames  | Spring 2001
Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun | Game Boy Color  | Infogrames  | Christmas 2000
Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion | Game Boy Color  | Acclaim | Summer 2000
UEFA 2000 | Game Boy Color  | Infogrames  | Summer 2000
Radikal Bikers | PlayStation | Infogrames  | Summer 2000
Ronaldo V-Football (Ronaldo V-Soccer in the USA) | Game Boy Color - B/W  | Infogrames  | 2001, January 1, 2002 (USA)
Turok: Rage Wars | Game Boy Color  | Acclaim  | 2000
Die-Maus | Game Boy Color  | Infogrames  | Autumn 1999
Asterix & Obelix | Game Boy Color  | Infogrames  | Summer 1999
Hugo 2½ | Game Boy Color - B/W  | Infogrames  | Summer 1999
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil | Game Boy Color - B/W  | Acclaim  | Christmas 1998
Software:Sylvester & Tweety: Breakfast on the Run (Looney Tunes: Twouble! in the USA) | Game Boy Color - B/W  | Infogrames  | Christmas 1998
Otto's Ottifanten: Baby Bruno's Nightmare | Game Boy  | Infogrames  | Autumn 1998
Sea Battle | Game Boy  | Infogrames  | Autumn 1998
Bang! | Coin-op | Gaelco | Spring 1998
Die-Maus | Game Boy  | Infogrames  | Spring 1998
Software:Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs | Game Boy  | Acclaim  | Christmas 1997
Hugo 2 | Game Boy  | Laguna  | Christmas 1997
Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun | Game Boy  | Infogrames  | Spring 1997
Spirou | Game Gear  | Infogrames  | Unpublished (1996 copyright date)
Spirou | Game Boy  | Infogrames  | Christmas 1996
Tintin in Tibet | Game Gear  | Infogrames  | Autumn 1996
Tintin in Tibet | Game Boy  | Infogrames  | Summer 1996
Asterix & Obelix | Super NES | Infogrames  | Christmas 1995
Asterix & Obelix | Game Boy  | Infogrames  | Summer 1995
The Smurfs | Master System | Infogrames  | Christmas 1994
The Smurfs | Game Gear | Infogrames  | Christmas 1994
The Smurfs | NES  | Infogrames  | Autumn 1994
The Smurfs | Game Boy  | Infogrames  | Summer 1994, 1998 (USA)
Metal Masters | Game Boy  | Electro Brain | Christmas 1993
Asterix | NES | Infogrames  | Autumn 1993
Asterix | Game Boy  | Infogrames  | Summer 1993
Bomb Jack | Game Boy  | Infogrames  | Summer 1992
Pop Up (Cool Ball in the USA) | Game Boy | Infogrames, Takara (USA)  | Spring 1992, August 1994 (USA)
Mystical | Spectrum  | Infogrames  | Autumn 1991
The Light Corridor | Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX  | Infogrames  | Summer 1991
North & South | Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX  | Infogrames  | Christmas 1990
Hostages | Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX  | Infogrames  | Spring 1990
Magic Johnson Basketball | Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX  | Zafiro  | Spring 1990
Time Out | Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX | Zafiro  | Christmas 1988

### Bang!

Bang! is a wild west shoot 'em up game created for the Gaelco GG-1v machine, and released by Gaelco in 1998.[3] It featured cartoon graphics; single-player and 2-player modes, and offered the use of a light gun and control button inputs.[4][5]

## References

1. ↑ "Interview: Alberto Gonzalez". good-evil. July 16, 2009. http://good-evil.net/features/interview-with-alberto-gonzalez-part-1.
2. ↑ "Press Start!". Retro Maniac: pp. 20–21. May 2012. http://books.openlibra.com/pdf/RetroManiac_6.pdf. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
3. ↑ Bang! at the Killer List of Videogames
4. ↑ Note: The rules are the same as Point Blank: the player starts up with three lives, with a goal to complete each stage by reaching the requested quota of hits (or points). If the player fails; gets hit by a bandit; or shoots the wrong target; they lose a life.
5. ↑ Bang!; at Arcade History; retrieved .

## External links

* Bit Managers website
* Virtual Toys website

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Gaelco

Released|

| 1990s|

* Big Karnak
* World Rally
* Alligator Hunt
* Biomechanical Toy
* Radikal Bikers

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2000s|

* Smashing Drive
* PC Fútbol

See also|

* Zigurat
* Bit Managers
* Planeta DeAgostini

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