type public traded as otc pink egam industry interactive entertainment founded 1992 headquarters langhorne pennsylvania key people gerald w. klein president ceo thomas w. murphy cfo rich siporin vp of sales & marketing products pc games ; see article revenue 3 956 000 usd 2008 number of employees 15 2005 website www.egames.com egames inc. otc pink egam was an american software publisher and developer for casual and traditional computer games based in langhorne pa . contents 1 history 2 bundled adware 3 references 4 notes history edit eg was originally called e games when it went public in 1996 . the public company was formed by a merger between a software sales company romtech and one of the first educational multi media cd rom development companies called applied optical media based in west chester pa . soon after going public romtech acquired a software development company based in san luis obispo ca that created soho software and also shut down operations at applied optical media . the egames website provides registration and technical support . in late 2005 egames acquired cinemaware a game company founded in the eighties who produced a series of interactive movie games including widely acclaimed defender of the crown . in 2006 egames released the first titles under its new affiliated label cinemaware marquee . through cinemaware marquee egames brings traditional games developed around the world to retail . cinemaware marquee titles include space rangers 2 rise of the dominators independent game festival grand prize winner darwinia and moscow to berlin red siege . egames recently announced that it would be reviving many of the classic cinemaware titles beginning with defender of the crown . with the september 2005 release of boss hunter revenge is sweet an office themed arcade style game where the player chases their boss with a wide variety of work related weaponry and early 2007 launch of defender of the crown heroes live forever egames began in house game development efforts working primarily with brazil based techfront studios ltd. egames third internally developed title burger island launched in may 2007 in conjunction with sandlot games . it was distributed by yahoo games for a two week period and was the number one downloadable game in terms of sales and downloads on yahoo in its debut week . citation needed egames became known as entertainment games following the acquisition of heyday games in june 2011 . following this the company focused its efforts on creating a facebook game known as retro world 1 followed by an unsuccessful kickstarter campaign called global race club . entertainment games inc. ceased trading as an entertainment company in april 2012 due to financial difficulties . the company name ticker symbol egam and public company structure were acquired by a mining company tamino minerals in a reverse merger . 2 3 bundled adware edit egames inc. was one of the first companies to include advertising in their commercially bundled software . 4 5 several egames titles included adware called tsadbot from the conducent affiliate network . 6 references edit bucks county gaming company brings retro style to facebook philadelphia region loses longtime game developer how a langhorne gaming company became an ariz. mining company privacy power adware badware spyware conducent timesink pestpatrol.com entry advertising spyware tsadbot by timesink conducent notes edit the company should not be confused with the e games.com or egames inc malaysia which used to host mmo games or e games philippines ip e games a wholly owned subsidiary of ipvg intellectual property ventures group a local game publisher in the philippines . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title egames video game developer & oldid 742644155 categories 1992 establishments in pennsylvaniaamerican companies established in 1992companies based in bucks county pennsylvaniamedia companies established in 1992publishing companies established in 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