![]() ![]() The end of this agreement meant that as of 2000, the company became a fully independent developer and currently releases games across many formats for publishing companies such as Electronic Arts and Namco. This started a 3-year agreement with Eutechnyx developing exclusively for Infogrames on the PlayStation and PC platforms. After gaining registered developer and publisher status for the Sony PlayStation, the directors bought back the company from Merit with help from French publishers Infogrames. ![]() As well as developing their own games, the company was also responsible for the marketing and distribution of Merit's US games in Europe. in 1994 and became known as Merit Studios Europe. The company was acquired by American company Merit Studios, Inc. The company, being primarily a budget publisher, operated several labels for different price ranges among them were Cognito and Impulze for full-price releases, Zeppelin Premier and Zeppelin Platinum. They also worked with publisher Codemasters to produce the first two Micro Machines games and Pete Sampras Tennis. Popular games included Jocky Wilson's Darts Challenge, International Tennis, Universal Warrior and Sink or Swim. Zeppelin Games produced a large number of games for various home computer systems including Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Amiga and by the early 90s were also making games for PC and consoles such as the Mega Drive/Genesis and SNES. With the money that he made, he started the company, Zeppelin Games, in November 1987 when he was 17. The company founder, Brian Jobling, started creating games for the Atari 800, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64 personal computers at home in the early 1980s as a 14-year-old. ![]() They are known for their largely panned video game Ride to Hell: Retribution, work with the NASCAR The Game franchise, and as a developer on various other racing titles and games. Since 1997, the company has focused on racing games. Eutechnyx Limited (formerly Zeppelin Games Limited, until 1994, and Merit Studios (Europe) Limited, until 1997) is a British video game developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. ![]()
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