fate dissolved founded 2005 defunct 2010 headquarters luton england key people paul andrews ceo matt bateman head of creative development chris bailey head of technical operations products eternity s child gt racer gba etrom power of destruction concrete surfer dvd johnny morris the magic memoirs dvd website www.alten8.com alten8 ltd. is a british video game developer and publisher with offices in luton . it produces both licensed retro games and current format video games . as of 2008 alten8 has been under contract to develop the emulation code for c64 titles on nintendo s virtual console service . 1 the company was formed by the former ceo paul andrews after his involvement with the website retro trader which led him to be commissioned to gather retro game licenses for a plug into tv video game console using games such as ant attack originally on the sinclair zx spectrum . for financial and business reasons out of the control of andrews this was never realised . he then formed alten8 to make use of the gathered licenses . since then it has expanded its remit gaining game boy advance nintendo ds wii and xbox 360 developer status as well as other formats and publishing following . 2 an initial gba release gt racer through another publisher convinced alten8 to self publish all titles where possible from that point onwards or to develop console titles under contract only from major publishers . alten8 now bills itself as the alten8 way of publishing games . alten8 now publishes over 500 licensed retro games across formats such as the sinclair zx spectrum commodore 64 amiga and other computers . with many mobile phone games 3 both developed and owned by alten8 and with other licensed pc and nintendo ds games also published across the globe including the ds remake of the popular homebrew dreamcast game cool herders . 4 as well as developing the code for several retro titles on the vc alten8 has also worked with new pioneering mobile phone companies such as greystripe and vollee . as well as video games alten8 also licenses content for release on dvd as well as publishing its own dvd content . dvds like the upcoming johnny morris dvd ; the magic memoirs . magic memoirs in particular is a poignant release as it was the last recorded johnny morris episode and was co hosted by tv s terry nutkins . in 2008 alten8 restructured its corporate layout to accommodate the many new staff and many new directions the company was heading in . 5 whilst the name of the company is the same alten8 itself is more of an umbrella term for the many studios underneath its banner as well as the publishing brand for upcoming releases . games development created with new ip will be created by the skull monkey games division whilst retro soft will take care of the licensing and recreation of classic game brands owned by the company such as the virtual console conversions and some upcoming retro content for the iphone . film and cgi group mangledpixel provide the group with fmv for all internal projects as well as the creation of external projects like shorts and 4d films ; with its first outing a dream of christmas 4d debuting at babbacombe model village . 6 audio division octave sound audio to internal development efforts as well as outside clients . media manufacturer and distributor entain8 will act as the sister company to alten8 catering to the needs of both its sibling company and other external clients . alten8 is also involved with the production licensing and eventual distribution of an upcoming major movie production multiple destiny . recently alten8 has bucked the trend of larger dev companies shedding employees and has actually expanded by some 300 % 7 by taking on a range of new starters for all roles . alten8 ceased trading in december 2010 . contents 1 products 1.1 released products 1.1.1 2005 1.1.2 2006 1.1.3 2007 1.1.4 2008 2 controversies 3 references 4 external links products edit released products edit 2005 edit etrom pc 2006 edit gt racers gba space tanks pc 2007 edit power of destruction pc 2008 edit civil disturbance pc hotwired and gone pc boulderdash virtual console california games virtual console cybernoid the fighting machine virtual console impossible mission virtual console impossible mission 2 virtual console international karate virtual console international karate virtual console jumpman virtual console last ninja 2 virtual console last ninja 3 virtual console mayhem in monsterland virtual console nebulus virtual console paradroid virtual console pitstop ii virtual console summer games ii virtual console the last ninja virtual console uridium virtual console world games virtual console johnny morris the magic memoirs dvd killing time 24 7 dvd teenage witchcraft a beginners guide dvd a dream of christmas 4d 4d film controversies edit in march 2006 alten8 declared it would be publishing the mobile phone game office massacre . this precluded a torrent of community and media backlash with many people feeling offended at the potentially gory and violent content . bethesda softworks founder christopher weaver even went to lengths of name calling alten8 ... a bunch of idiots who don t understand the first thing about social responsibility . 8 the game was quickly cancelled with alten8 stating no offence ... was intended by this game and we resent the comments made and the unfair and unjust comparison of this game to other extreme games . 9 office massacre re appeared some months later as a reskinned censor friendly office zombies 10 not too dis similar to the controversy and subsequent solution surrounding stainless games carmageddon . in 2008 alten8 came under fire inadvertently after an independent contract designer luc bernard who had done a single phone game for alten8 did an independent interview bernard s anti holocaust themed ds game concept was discussed and then sub sequentially misquoted by the press in an interview with the ny times imagination is the only escape which was then immediately met with a media controversy storm with everyone from destructoid who stated the concept was the evolution of gaming and the chance for videogames to tackle sensitive issues 11 to the new york times itself having an distorted view on the interview they themselves carried out . 12 but despite the initial press fuelled public confusion over the concept an official quote from the anti defamation league spokeswoman myrna shinbaum in which she appeared to actually endorse the game concept being made stating we certainly believe that we have to find new ways of teaching lessons of the holocaust as new technologies are being developed 13 according to several erroneous internet sources nintendo themselves claimed that the game would never be released however this was confirmed to not be the case 14 15 and the game never went past the developers concept art. 16 imagination and its well meant intentions by the developer was strongly backed by alten8 17 but alten8 itself had never known of its concept prior to the media storm nor had any contract with the developer to produce it . bernard went on to try to crowd fund and develop the game himself in 2013 but was unsuccessful . references edit kaasa interview commodore 64 on virtual console . vc reviews.com . 21 october 2008 . archived from the original on 24 october 2008 . retrieved 21 october 2008 . alten8 on the expansion path . edge online.com . 12 march 2008 . retrieved 1 september 2008 . greystripe partners with alten8 bringing 38 classic mobile games to entertainment portal gamejump.com in biggest mobile in game advertising deal to date . . accessmylibrary.com . 7 september 2006 . retrieved 1 september 2008 . cool herders coming to ds . gameplanet.co.nz . 26 march 2007 . retrieved 1 september 2008 . dead link alten8 restructures company . edge online.com . 2 october 2008 . retrieved 6 november 2008 . mangled pixel s first 4d animated feature released . game news . 11 january 2008 . retrieved 17 november 2008 . alten8 media group expansion . www.mcvuk.com . 6 november 2008 . retrieved 6 november 2008 . bethesda founder calls alten8 idiots . game politics . 2006 03 31 . retrieved 5 december 2008 . alten8 cans office massacre following negative press . eurogamer.net . 4 march 2006 . retrieved 14 may 2008 . controversial alten8 game gets new lease of life . gamesindustry.biz . 4 march 2006 . retrieved 13 may 2008 . exclusive the truth about the holocaust game . destructoid . retrieved 2016 08 21 . pappu sridhar 3 october 2008 . no game about nazis for nintendo . new york times . archived from the original on 28 december 2014 . retrieved 17 may 2008 . heidilore 2008 12 26 . lovely nintendo to release holocaust video game . heidi lore s musings . retrieved 2016 08 21 . alten8 disputes reports of nintendo blocking ds release . gamesindustry.biz . 10 march 2008 . archived from the original on 14 april 2008 . retrieved 13 may 2008 . will we ever see imagination is the only escape . engadget . retrieved 2016 08 21 . purchese robert 2008 03 10 . creator defends holocaust ds game . eurogamer . retrieved 2016 08 21 . imagination is the only escape . mcv online . 10 march 2008 . retrieved 13 june 2008 . external links edit official alten8 website alten8 company page at gamespot multiple destiny feature film and game eternity s child at n europe retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title alten8 & oldid 738572108 categories companies based in lutonvideo game companies of the united kingdomhidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from july 2011engvarb from september 2013use dmy dates from september 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent 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