Virgin Interactive

Virgin Interactive
Founded	1983
Closed	2003
Headquarters	London, England, UK
Other Names	Arcadia Systems Virgin Games Virgin Mastertronic Virgin Interactive Entertainment Avalon Interactive Gang of Five

Virgin Interactive Entertainment was the video game publishing division of British conglomerate the Virgin Group. It started off making home computer titles in the UK and a game development team called "Gang of Five", until it was dropped for a studio in London in the 1990s. It also had operations in the US, and it was best known for remembered games, like Earthworm Jim, Cool Spot, Disney's Aladdin, The Lion King, and Westwood's titles from 1992 until its US operations sale to Electronic Arts in 1998.

For Virgin's U.S. unit, if a game does not have in-game credits, like Prince of Persia (NES), then the credits would be seen in the game's manual, unlike Activision, which shows the developer's names in the game manual.

Games

• Games developed by Virgin Interactive.
• Games published by Virgin Interactive.

Music Development

DOS

For The 7th Guest, George Sanger uses Digital Performer.

NES

For Spot: The Video Game (NES), Virgin used Sculptured Software's sound driver by Ken Moore. The game's composer, Ken Hedgecock, only remembers using a piece of software by Yamaha to compose the music. Interestingly, despite the driver coming from Sculptured Software, this was the first game to use it.

For M.C. Kids (NES), Charles Deenen programmed his own sound driver on the NES and wrote in 6502 assembly directly onto the NES.

For Color A Dinosaur (NES), Tommy used Tommy T's Play Me Sound Editor, which he co-developed with Stephen Clarke-Willson.

SNES

The company used sound drivers by Chip Level Designs and Bitmasters.

On Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Allister Brimble used his own driver.

On The Jungle Book, Mark Miller of Neuromantic Productions arranged Tommy Tallarico's score using Sculptured Software's BMus by Steve Aguirre.

GEN

The company used GEMS. For some games, Matt Furniss used Shaun Hollingworth's driver.

GB

The company used a driver by Ed Magnin. Various companies, including the UK unit used different composers.

SMS/GG

Matt Furniss used Shaun Hollingworth's sound driver.

Audio Personnel

• Ken Hedgecock
• Ken Moore
• Tommy Tallarico
• Steve Henifin
• Tony Bernetich
• Charles Deenen
• Ed Magnin
• Chip Level Designs
• Neuromantic Productions
• Shaun Hollingworth
• Matt Furniss
• Allister Brimble
• Keith Arem
• Joey Kuras