Realtime Associates

Realtime Associates at a Glance

If you are browsing PlayPile looking for information on Realtime Associates, you will find an American studio founded in 1986 by David Warhol and former Mattel Electronics employees. The company originally started by making games for the Intellivision system before expanding its reach across many decades of hardware. Their catalog on this site contains 28 titles where they acted as developers, along with one game they published. While their bio mentions work on systems like the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, the data here shows a strong focus on older consoles such as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mega Drive, PlayStation, and Intellivision, each with five entries. Realtime Associates has produced games in many genres over time. Platform games make up the largest group with ten titles, followed by seven adventure games and five puzzles. Their output was most active during the 1990s with seventeen releases. The 1980s saw five games, while the 2000s had another five. Activity slowed significantly in the 2010s with only one entry. Recent releases include Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill in February 2018 and Soul Trapper: Episode 1 in September 2009. They also released a version of Sonic the Hedgehog in July 2008 that achieved a score of 76 out of 100, which stands as their highest-rated title in this dataset. The general quality trend for Realtime Associates shows mixed to poor results overall. The average IGDB rating across eight rated titles is 54 out of 100. There are no games in the great category above 80 points. Only two titles fall into the good range between 60 and 79. Four games received mixed scores, and two were rated as poor with less than 40 points. Titles like Warlock from 1994 scored 69.8, while MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head earned 57.8. Some later entries struggled more, such as Casper: Friends Around the World which hit just 50.3. Beyond entertainment software, the studio has worked on serious games and health-related projects like Re-Mission for HopeLab. Current operations in 2024 focus on XR projects involving augmented reality and holographic telepresence using cell phones. Their history spans from the late 1980s through 2018, showing a long but uneven career in game development across various platforms and genres.

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