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{{Infobox company |company_name = Frog City Software |company_logo = |company_type = Shut-down, formerly a [[subsidiary]] of [[Take-Two Interactive]] |company_slogan = |foundation = [[San Francisco]], [[California]] (1995) |location = San Francisco, California |key_people = Ted Spieth, Bill Spieth and Rachel Bernstein |industry = [[Interactive entertainment]] |products = [[Imperialism (game)|''Imperialism'' series]]<br />''[[Trade Empires]]''<br />''[[Tropico 2: Pirate Cove]]'' |revenue = |operating profit = |homepage = www.frogcity.com (no longer online) }} '''Frog City Software''' was a computer game developing company which focused on strategy games, opened in 1995. Frog City Software was a subsidiary of [[Take-Two Interactive]] until they closed it in 2006. The company was founded by the brothers Bill Spieth and Ted Spieth and by Rachel Bernstein.<ref>http://www.the-underdogs.info/company.php?name=Frog+City</ref><ref>http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3013/postmortem_frog_citys_trade_.php?page=1</ref> In 2004 Frog City was bought by Gathering, which was itself bought by Take 2 Interactive in 2005.<ref>http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html</ref> Frog City was shut down in 2006; it was the fourth game development studio to be shut down by Take-Two Interactive during that year.<ref>http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10578</ref> In April of that year, veterans of Frog City including the founders Ted Spieth, Bill Spieth and Rachel Bernstein<ref>http://sidecarstudios.com/personnel.html</ref> started a new game development studio called Sidecar Studios.<ref>http://sidecarstudios.com/news.html</ref> In 2007 Bernstein joined [[Electronic Arts]] as a Senior Producer. ==Games developed== *''[[Imperialism (game)|Imperialism]]'', 1997. *''[[Imperialism II: Age of Exploration]]'', 1999. *''[[Trade Empires]]'', 2001. - Used the AXVI game engine, initially designed for ''Pantheon.''<ref>http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html</ref> *''[[Tropico 2: Pirate Cove]]'', 2003. *''Snow '', 2005. - Strategy game about drug trafficking<ref>http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html</ref> that was cancelled in 2006.<ref>http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10578</ref> *''Pantheon'', 1998 - This game, which would use Frog City's new AXVI engine, was a [[Real-time strategy|RTS]], [[Role-playing game (video games)|RPG]] about the [[Greek god]]s, but its development was cancelled in 2000.<ref>http://www.sidecarstudios.com/history.html</ref> ==References== {{Reflist|2}} {{Take-Two Interactive}} [[Category:Companies based in San Francisco, California]] [[Category:Companies established in 1995]] [[Category:Companies disestablished in 2006]] [[Category:Defunct video game companies]] [[Category:Take-Two Interactive]] [[Category:Video game companies of the United States]] [[Category:Video game developers]] {{TakeTwo-stub}} [[fr:Frog City Software]] [[it:Frog City Software]]
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