Bit Managers, formerly known as New Frontier, was a video game developer based in Barcelona (Spain).
History[]
The company was founded in 1988 with the name New Frontier. Initially they programmed games for ZX Spectrum, Amstrad and MSX, but they didn't get so much success.
In 1992, the company changed its name to Bit Managers and began to make games for Nintendo consoles (especially for Game Boy). This was their best time, they created innovative games based on comic characters like Asterix, The Smurfs or Tintin for the company Infogrames.
In 1997, they were chosen by Acclaim between several video game studios to develop the Turok series for Game Boy.
In 1998, the year of the launch of Game Boy Color, Bit Managers was the first third-party developer to finish two Game Boy Color titles (Turok II and Sylvester & Tweety). In this year, the company was bought by the Spanish arcade video game company Gaelco. Then, they ported to PlayStation the Gaelco arcade game Radikal Bikers.
In 2001, the former associates of Bit Managers bought again the company and they continued their relationship with Infogrames with several games for Game Boy Advance.
In 2005, the Spanish video game company Virtual Toys bought Bit Managers and nowadays its part of this one and it is known as Virtual Toys Barcelona.
Games[]
| Title | Console | Publisher | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Morning Adventure | Game Boy Advance | Virtual Toys | Summer 2003 |
| Inspector Gadget Racing | Game Boy Advance | LSP | Christmas 2002 |
| The Revenge of the Smurfs | Game Boy Advance | Infogrames | Autumn 2002 |
| Droopy´s Tennis Open | Game Boy Advance | LSP | Summer 2002 |
| Asterix & Obelix Bash´em all! | Game Boy Advance | Infogrames | February 2002 |
| Baby Felix Halloween | Game Boy Color | LSP | Christmas 2001 |
| Tintin in Tibet | Game Boy Color | Infogrames | Spring 2001 |
| Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun | Game Boy Color | Infogrames | Christmas 2000 |
| Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion | Game Boy Color | Acclaim | Summer 2000 |
| UEFA 2000 | Game Boy Color | Infogrames | Summer 2000 |
| Radikal Bikers | PlayStation | Infogrames | Summer 2000 |
| Ronaldo V-Football | Game Boy Color - B/W | Infogrames | Christmas 1999 |
| Turok: Rage Wars | Game Boy Color | Acclaim | Christmas 1999 |
| Die-Maus | Game Boy Color | Infogrames | Autumn 1999 |
| Asterix & Obelix | Game Boy Color | Infogrames | Summer 1999 |
| Hugo 2 1/2 | Game Boy Color - B/W | Infogrames | Summer 1999 |
| Turok 2: Seeds of Evil | Game Boy Color - B/W | Acclaim | Christmas 1998 |
| Sylvester & Tweety | Game Boy Color - B/W | Infogrames | Christmas 1998 |
| Ottifanten | Game Boy | Infogrames | Autumn 1998 |
| Sea Battle | Game Boy | Infogrames | Autumn 1998 |
| Bang! | Coin-op | Gaelco | Spring 1998 |
| Die-Maus | Game Boy | Infogrames | Spring 1998 |
| Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs | Game Boy | Acclaim | Christmas 1997 |
| Hugo 2 | Game Boy | Laguna[disambiguation needed] | Christmas 1997 |
| Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun | Game Boy | Infogrames | Spring 1997 |
| Spirou | Game Boy | Infogrames | Christmas 1996 |
| Tintin in Tibet | Game Gear | Infogrames | Autumn 1996 |
| Tintin in Tibet | Game Boy | Infogrames | Summer 1996 |
| Asterix & Obelix | Super NES | Infogrames | Christmas 1995 |
| Asterix & Obelix | Game Boy | Infogrames | Summer 1995 |
| The Smurfs | Game Gear - Master System | Infogrames | Christmas 1994 |
| The Smurfs | NES | Infogrames | Autumn 1994 |
| The Smurfs | Game Boy | Infogrames | Summer 1994 |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Game Boy | Nintendo | 1993 |
| Metal Masters | Game Boy | Electro Brain | Christmas 1993 |
| Asterix | NES | Infogrames | Autumn 1993 |
| Asterix | Game Boy | Infogrames | Summer 1993 |
| Bomb Jack | Game Boy | Infogrames | Summer 1992 |
| Pop Up | Game Boy | Infogrames | Spring 1992 |
| Mystical | Spectrum | Infogrames | Autumn 1991 |
| The Light Corridor | Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX | Infogrames | Summer 1991 |
| North & South | Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX | Infogrames | Christmas 1990 |
| Hostages | Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX | Infogrames | Spring 1990 |
| Magic Johnson Basketball | Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX | Zafiro | Spring 1990 |
| Time Out | Spectrum, Amstrad, MSX | Zafiro | Christmas 1988 |