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Fox Interactive was a video game publisher and developer owned by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, formed in May 1994. It mainly focused on titles based on their properties, though they were also involved with original titles, including Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and No One Lives Forever. It was a loose successor to Fox Video Games, which was formed in 1982 but was soon shut down due the the video game crash of 1983. The company stopped publishing its own games in 2001, and gave their titles to other publishers. In 2003, Fox Interactive was acquired by Vivendi Universal Games for an undisclosed sum. After being purchased, the name was reduced to solely being a label for 20th Century Fox games published by Vivendi Universal Games. The label would be phased out by 2006, although Vivendi Universal continued to publish titles based on 20th Century Fox properties, with such examples including Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, Eragon, and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. 20th Century Fox would later partner with other publishers to create games based on their properties, something which continues on to this day. New games based on 20th Century Studios titles are now in the hands of other publishers, and simply use the 20th Century Games logo instead. Today, most of Fox Interactive's game library, which was copyrighted to 20th Century Fox, is owned by The Walt Disney Company through 20th Century Studios, while current video games based on 20th Century properties (which is owned by and operated under Disney since 2019) have been licensed out to third-party publishers on console and mobile devices.
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1st Logo (November 23, 1994-1996) | 2nd Logo (February 29, 1996-June 30, 2003) | 3rd Logo (April 18, 2002-March 14, 2006) |
Logo: On a white background, we see a still image of the Fox Interactive logo, enclosed in a black rectangle. It consists of a blue globe on top of a black structure with two gold lines, with "FOX" curved across it in the movie logo's font, and four searchlights in the back forming an X-cross-like formation, all against a sky blue background. Below it is the white text "INTERACTIVE", and underneath the rectangle is the byline "A UNIT OF FOX, INC.".
Variants:
Technique: None.
Music/Sounds: A 16-bit (8-bit for Game Boy) rendition of the full 20th Century Fox fanfare. The fanfare sounds different on each game that uses this logo.
Availability: Rare. Can be only seen on The Pagemaster on Game Boy, SNES and Genesis, and The Tick on SNES and Genesis.
Logo: On a black background, we see a globe floating in the center of a gold-bordered box, against a blue/purple/gold sky background from the theatrical logo. Four searchlights move behind the globe, causing it to rotate, and a huge explosion of gold fireworks to appear behind it. The gold-lined structure from the 1st logo appears underneath the globe, and the glowing text "FOX", in the same font as the 2nd logo, flies in from the top of the globe and moves into its usual position. The searchlights also move into their normal crossed position, and after it does so, the globe stops moving. As the logo animates, the gold border slowly grows at the bottom to make room for the white text "INTERACTIVE", which flashes in as the logo completes. The "FOX" text, along with the gold border, then shines.
Trivia: On Die Hard Arcade on Sega Saturn and Die Hard Trilogy on Sega Saturn, PlayStation and PC, some of the soft drink health pickups you find in the game have the Fox Interactive logo on the can. Also, in Team Losi: R/C Racer on PlayStation, at some tracks, the Fox Interactive logo can be seen on some posters and walls.
Variants:
Technique: CGI animation.
Music/Sounds: The second half of the 1994 20th Century Fox fanfare composed by Bruce Broughton, with rumbling, an explosion, and some whooshes (which pans from the right to left speaker if listened in stereo). The fanfare abruptly ends as the logo shines. Also, an extra cymbal is added.
Music/Sounds Variants:
Availability: Common.
Logo: We see the 20th Century Fox logo in its 1994 form. Then, the camera turns around the structure. Smoke appears in the leftmost and rightmost searchlights as we slowly see the structure transform into the stacked text "FOX INTERACTIVE", separated by two lines and in the Fox font. We can also see that the structure is now perched next to and upon several circular, futuristic buildings with colorful lights, which illuminate once the camera settles down. We can also see some pods or small spaceships moving around in the buildings on a monorail.
Variants:
Technique: CGI designed and animated by Christine Hermsmeyer at Herms Terms Studios.
Music/Sounds: The 1997 Fox fanfare composed by David Newman. Some titles used the 1994 Fox fanfare composed by Bruce Broughton.
Music/Sounds Variant: Like before, none or the opening theme of the game for the still variants.
Availability: Uncommon, appeared on titles from the time.
Starting with all versions of Fantastic Four, Eragon and Family Guy Video Game!, all Fox video games began using the 20th Century Fox theatrical or television logos.