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{{Short description|American video game publisher}}
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{{Infobox company
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{{Infobox company
| name = Tommo Inc.
| name = Tommo Inc.
| logo =
| logo = Tommo logo.jpg
| type = [[Corporation]]
| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
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| industry = [[Video game industry|Video games]]
| foundation =
| founded = {{Start date and age|1990}}
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| location = [[City of Industry, California]]
| key_people = [[Jonathan Wan]] (CEO)
| founder = Jonathan Wan
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| hq_location_city = [[City of Industry, California]]
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| industry = [[Computer and video game industry|Computer and video games]]
| hq_location_country = US
| products =
| key_people = Jonathan Wan ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])
| revenue =
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| subsid = [[UFO Interactive Games]]
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| website = {{URL|tommo.com}}
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| homepage = [http://www.tommo.com www.tommo.com]
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'''Tommo Inc.''' is an American [[video game publisher]] based in [[City of Industry, California]]. Founded in 1990, Tommo started out as a small independent distributor of imported video games. Since 2006, Tommo also operates a publishing subsidiary, [[UFO Interactive Games]], which is best known for publishing original games, such as several titles in the ''[[Raiden (series)|Raiden]]'' series.
Tommo is an [[United States|American]] [[Video game publisher|video games publisher]] and [[Distribution (business)|distributor]] of video games headquartered in [[City of Industry, California]], USA. Founded in 1989, Tommo started out as a small independent video game distribution company that distributed imported games. Today Tommo, Inc. is a worldwide publisher, licensor and manufacturer of games and accessories across multiple entertainment platforms including [[PlayStation 2]], [[PlayStation 3]], [[PlayStation Portable]], [[Xbox 360]], [[Nintendo Wii]], [[Nintendo DS]], [[Steam (software)|Steam]], [[GOG.com]], [[iTunes]], [[Google Play]] and [[Amazon.com]]. In July 2013, Tommo bought [[Humongous Entertainment]] and over 100 classics games from the Atari bankruptcy proceedings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://docs.bmcgroup.com/Atari/nysb_1-13-bk-10176_313.pdf|title=Purchase Agreement between Atari, Inc. and Rebellion Developments, Stardock & Tommo|date=2013-07-22|publisher=[[BMC Group]]}}</ref>


==History==
Tommo also owns the Tommo Mobile brand and is currently marketing an exclusive line of [[Sega|SEGA]]-themed mobile accessory products which debut in 2013 and a second line of products is expected for Fall 2014.
In July 2013, Tommo successfully placed a bid on a majority of assets held by [[Atari, Inc. (1993–present)|Atari]] during the company's bankruptcy sale. The sale included assets related to [[Humongous Entertainment]], [[GT Interactive]], [[Accolade (company)|Accolade]] and over one-hundred titles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.bmcgroup.com/Atari/nysb_1-13-bk-10176_313.pdf|title=NOTICE OF FILING OF PROPOSED SALE ORDERS WITH RESPECT TO THE SALE OF CERTAIN ASSETS|date=July 22, 2013|publisher=[[BMC Group]]}}</ref>


In January 2014, Tommo relaunched the Humongous brand and began re-releasing the company's Junior Adventure titles onto [[Steam (service)|Steam]]. In October 2014, in conjunction with [[Night Dive Studios]], Tommo launched its Retroism publishing label, which specializes in the re-release of classic video game titles into [[digital distribution]] channels.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tommo Inc. and Night Dive Studios Partner to Launch Retroism™ |url=https://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/227456/Tommo_Inc_and_Night_Dive_Studios_Partner_to_LaunchRetroismtrade.php |website=[[Gamasutra]] |publisher=[[UBM Technology Group]] |accessdate=January 5, 2020 |date=October 9, 2014}}</ref>
Tommo also publishes original and licensed games in conjunction with its sister software company, [[UFO Interactive Games|UFO Interactive]]. Most notably, several titles in the Raiden shooting game series, Elminage and original titles in the Smart Girls, Smart Boys and Smart Kids brands as well as the Chuck E. Cheese series on various platforms.


In 2017, Tommo began a partnership with Hong Kong–based investor and intellectual property management company Billionsoft. In the process, Tommo licensed out its Retroism titles over to them, alongside the brand names. Within the process, Billionsoft relaunched the [[Accolade (company)|Accolade]] label with the intention of producing new entries for ex-Accolade franchises, beginning with the ''[[Bubsy]]'' series.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.accoladegame.com/ |title = Home I Accolade Game}}</ref>
In January 2014, Tommo re-launched the Humongous.com website and numerous social media sites as part of its commitment to rebuild the Humongous brand. In addition to iTunes, Google Play and The Amazon App Store in 2014 dozens of Humongous titles also debuted on Steam (April) and on Amazon PC Digital Download (May).


In March 2020, newly-formed publisher Ziggurat Interactive purchased several of the ex-Atari titles from Tommo and Billionsoft.<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2020/03/03/1994352/0/en/New-Gaming-Publisher-Ziggurat-Interactive-to-Bring-Massive-List-of-Classic-and-New-Games-to-Modern-Platforms.html|title=New Gaming Publisher Ziggurat Interactive to Bring Massive List of Classic and New Games to Modern Platforms|date=3 March 2020}}</ref>
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== Games ==

On April 19, 2023, Atari re-purchased back over one-hundred titles held by the two companies, as well as the [[Accolade (company)|Accolade]] and GT Interactive brands.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Atari Announces Acquisition of More than 100 PC and Console Titles from the 80s and 90s |url=https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/04/19/2650476/0/en/Atari-Announces-Acquisition-of-More-than-100-PC-and-Console-Titles-from-the-80s-and-90s.html |website=GlobeNewswire |date=19 April 2023 |access-date=April 20, 2023}}</ref>

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== Games published ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
|-
! Year !! Game !! Platform(s) !! Publisher !! Distributor
! Year !! Title !! Platform(s)
|-
|-
| 2002/2003 || ''[[Space Raiders (video game)|Space Raiders]]'' || [[PlayStation 2]], [[Nintendo GameCube|GameCube]] || {{Y}} || {{N}}
| rowspan="28" | 2013 || ''[[Challenge of the Five Realms]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2006 || ''[[Jump Super Stars]]'' || [[Nintendo DS]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Command HQ]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2006 || ''[[Jump Ultimate Stars]]'' || [[Nintendo DS]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Dragonsphere]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2006 || ''[[Breath of Fire III]]'' || [[PlayStation Portable]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Darklands (video game)|Darklands]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
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| ''[[Sid Meier's Colonization]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|2014
|[[Challenge of the Five Realms]]
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|[[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|{{N}}
|{{Y}}
|-
|-
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| ''[[Sid Meier's Covert Action]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|2014
|[[Command HQ]]
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|[[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|{{N}}
|{{Y}}
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Dragonsphere]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[BloodNet]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Darklands (video game)|Darklands]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Silent Service (video game)|Silent Service]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Sid Meier's Colonization]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Silent Service II]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Covert Action|Sid Meier's Covert Action]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[The UnderGarden]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[BloodNet]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Tycoon City: New York]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Silent Service (video game)|Silent Service]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Deadlock: Planetary Conquest]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Silent Service II]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Deadlock II: Shrine Wars]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[The UnderGarden]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Sid Meier's Pirates!]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Tycoon City: New York]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Sid Meier's Pirates!#|Pirates! Gold]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Deadlock: Planetary Conquest]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[7th Legion (video game)|7th Legion]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Deadlock II: Shrine Wars]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Sword of the Samurai (video game)|Sword of the Samurai]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Sid Meier's Pirates!]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Sid Meier's Pirates!#|Pirates! Gold]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[7th Legion]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Slave Zero]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Dreamcast]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Sword of the Samurai (video game)|Sword of the Samurai]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Redline (1999 video game)|Redline]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0|F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0a]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[1942: The Pacific Air War]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Slave Zero]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Eradicator (video game)|Eradicator]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Redline (1999 video game)|Redline]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Knights of the Sky]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Linux]]
|-
|-
| 2014 || ''[[Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0|F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0a]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]] || {{N}} || {{Y}}
| ''[[Fleet Defender]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[Linux]]
|-
| ''[[Hyperspeed (video game)|Hyperspeed]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS X]], [[Linux]]
|-
| ''[[Shadow Ops: Red Mercury]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]]
|-
| 2015 || ''[[Bubsy|Bubsy Two-Fur]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]]
|-
| 2017 || ''[[Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[PlayStation 4]]
|-
| 2019 || ''[[Bubsy: Paws on Fire!]]'' || [[Microsoft Windows]], [[PlayStation 4]], [[Nintendo Switch]]
|}
|}


==External links==
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
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* http://www.tommo.com

==See also==
* [[Humongous Entertainment]]
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* [[UFO Interactive Games]]


== External links ==
==References==
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* {{Official website|http://tommo.com/}}
<references />


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Latest revision as of 20:53, 29 November 2024

For other uses, see Tommo (disambiguation).

Tommo Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryVideo games
Founded1990; 34 years ago (1990)
FounderJonathan Wan
Headquarters
City of Industry, California
,
US
Key people
Jonathan Wan (CEO)
SubsidiariesUFO Interactive Games
Websitetommo.com

Tommo Inc. is an American video game publisher based in City of Industry, California. Founded in 1990, Tommo started out as a small independent distributor of imported video games. Since 2006, Tommo also operates a publishing subsidiary, UFO Interactive Games, which is best known for publishing original games, such as several titles in the Raiden series.

History

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In July 2013, Tommo successfully placed a bid on a majority of assets held by Atari during the company's bankruptcy sale. The sale included assets related to Humongous Entertainment, GT Interactive, Accolade and over one-hundred titles.[1]

In January 2014, Tommo relaunched the Humongous brand and began re-releasing the company's Junior Adventure titles onto Steam. In October 2014, in conjunction with Night Dive Studios, Tommo launched its Retroism publishing label, which specializes in the re-release of classic video game titles into digital distribution channels.[2]

In 2017, Tommo began a partnership with Hong Kong–based investor and intellectual property management company Billionsoft. In the process, Tommo licensed out its Retroism titles over to them, alongside the brand names. Within the process, Billionsoft relaunched the Accolade label with the intention of producing new entries for ex-Accolade franchises, beginning with the Bubsy series.[3]

In March 2020, newly-formed publisher Ziggurat Interactive purchased several of the ex-Atari titles from Tommo and Billionsoft.[4]

On April 19, 2023, Atari re-purchased back over one-hundred titles held by the two companies, as well as the Accolade and GT Interactive brands.[5]

Games published

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Year Title Platform(s)
2013 Challenge of the Five Realms Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Command HQ Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Dragonsphere Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Darklands Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Sid Meier's Colonization Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Sid Meier's Covert Action Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
BloodNet Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Silent Service Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Silent Service II Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
The UnderGarden Microsoft Windows
Tycoon City: New York Microsoft Windows
Deadlock: Planetary Conquest Microsoft Windows
Deadlock II: Shrine Wars Microsoft Windows
Sid Meier's Pirates! Microsoft Windows, OS X
Pirates! Gold Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
7th Legion Microsoft Windows
Sword of the Samurai Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th Microsoft Windows
Slave Zero Microsoft Windows, Dreamcast
Redline Microsoft Windows
F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0a Microsoft Windows
1942: The Pacific Air War Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Eradicator Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Knights of the Sky Microsoft Windows, Linux
Fleet Defender Microsoft Windows, Linux
Hyperspeed Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury Microsoft Windows
2015 Bubsy Two-Fur Microsoft Windows
2017 Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4
2019 Bubsy: Paws on Fire! Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch

References

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  1. ^ "NOTICE OF FILING OF PROPOSED SALE ORDERS WITH RESPECT TO THE SALE OF CERTAIN ASSETS" (PDF). BMC Group. July 22, 2013.
  2. ^ "Tommo Inc. and Night Dive Studios Partner to Launch Retroism™". Gamasutra. UBM Technology Group. October 9, 2014. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  3. ^ "Home I Accolade Game".
  4. ^ "New Gaming Publisher Ziggurat Interactive to Bring Massive List of Classic and New Games to Modern Platforms" (Press release). March 3, 2020.
  5. ^ "Atari Announces Acquisition of More than 100 PC and Console Titles from the 80s and 90s". GlobeNewswire (Press release). April 19, 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2023.
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