Question: What city was the earliest Electronic Arts acquired company based in ?

text: List of acquisitions by Electronic Arts
Acquisitions

Electronic Arts is an American company that is a developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of computer and video games, that was founded in 1982. Products of the company include EA Sports franchises, Sims, and other titles on both handheld and home gaming consoles. Electronic Arts often acquires new companies to expand or add to new product lines. For instance, EA chairman and chief executive officer Larry Probst said after the acquisition of JAMDAT Mobile that we intend to build a leading global position in the [.] business of providing games on mobile phones. EA followed through with this later, making the company into EA Mobile, and allowing people to purchase and download content produced by them directly onto their phones. After the acquisition of Origin Systems, some staff in that company claimed that Electronic Arts initially gave them more resources, but allowed little latitude if employees made a mistake, and in some cases no longer trusted them, and even worked against them. EA has shut down entire companies or the studios thereof after acquiring them, including the studio DICE Canada, Origin Systems, EA Chicago (NuFX), and Pandemic Studios. Gaming blogger Brian Crecente has said that fears that EA doesn't care about the quality of their products after they are acquired are debatable. As of February 2015, Electronic Arts' largest acquisition is the purchase of VG Holding Corp., the then-owner of video game developers BioWare and Pandemic Studios, for $775 million. Of the 39 companies acquired by EA, 20 are based in the U.S., five in the United Kingdom, six in Continental Europe, and eight elsewhere. Some of these companies or their respective studios, however, are now defunct.
Date Company Business Country Value ( USD ) Derived Studios
1987 Batteries Included † Hardware and software developer CAN - -
July 1 , 1991 Distinctive Software Inc Video game developer CAN - EA Vancouver
September 10 , 1992 Origin Systems † Science fiction space sim & Fantasy role-playing game developer USA $ 35,000,000 -
November 14 , 1994 DROsoft Software distributor ESP - -
January 6 , 1995 Bullfrog Productions † Video game developer UK - -
March 8 , 1995 Kingsoft GmbH † Software distributor GER - -
January 29 , 1996 Manley & Associates Video game developer USA - EA Seattle
June 4 , 1997 Maxis Video game developer and publisher USA $ 125,000,000 Maxis
April 2 , 1998 Tiburon Entertainment Video game developer USA - EA Tiburon
April 8 , 1998 Vision Software Software distributor RSA - Vision Software
July 28 , 1998 ABC Software Software distributor CH - ABC Software
August 17 , 1998 Westwood Studios ; Virgin Interactive 's North American Operations , Burst Studios † Computer and video game developers USA $ 122,500,000 EA Pacific †
September 8 , 1999 PlayNation Developer of online entertainment USA - PlayNation
November 22 , 1999 Kesmai † Video game developer and online game publisher USA - Kesmai
February 24 , 2000 DreamWorks Interactive Video game developer USA - Danger Close Games †
February 28 , 2001 Pogo.com Family games website USA - Pogo.com
June 11 , 2002 Black Box Games † Sports and racing video game developer CAN - Quicklime Games †
October 16 , 2003 Studio 33 Racing video game developer UK - EA Northwest
February 13 , 2004 NuFX Sports video game developer USA - EA Chicago †
July 28 , 2004 Criterion Software Video game developer UK - Criterion Software