Talk:Mindscape (software publisher)

message: Re: "Mindscape was formed in 2001" - that certainly isn't correct. E.g. the linked mobygames page says "Mindscape Entertainment - European name used since mid-nineties" and lists games published by them as early as 1983. Can anybody throw light on the correct year? ThomasHarte 00:33, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

message: Some quick checks show that half of Mindscape's history (pre-1995) is missing because it was named The Software Toolworks prior to that. There is a substantial article on The Software Toolworks, I'm merging it here because both companies have rightfully used the Mindscape trademark at one time or another - and the Software Toolworks article has Mindscape bolded as if written with this intention. Great! Arru 18:06, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from The Software Toolworks 

message: I worked at Mindscape from August, 1986 through December, 1990. Mindscape began (in 1983, I believe) as a division of publisher Scott Foresman; it published educational software then. In 1987, it was spunoff as an independent company. Roger Buoy was our president and CEO, and we were located in Northbrook, Illinois. As an independent company, we continued publishing educational software, but moved quickly into entertainment software as well. We were, as Arru speculates above, the publishers of Shadowgate and DejaVu. Other titles I remember: Infiltrator, Balance of Power, Paperboy, Gauntlet, Defender of the Crown. Mindscape did not buy Software Toolworks - it was the other way around. I think we were told of the sale in December, 1989. Except for a few executives and a few people who chose to move to California, we all lost our jobs. I was one of the last to leave the Northbrook office in December, 1990.--Two Tars (talk) 07:29, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mindscape in the 1980's 

message: The following was rewritten into a timeline to make it more comprehensible. Some pieces of this information did not make it into the timeline. 
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In 1994, the company purchased RPG publisher SSI and changed its name to Mindscape. The lot was purchased by The Learning Company in 1995, which was then purchased by Broderbund, and then the whole thing was sold to Mattel in 1999 for around US$3.6 billion, causing a strong impact to Mattel's stock price and the ouster of its CEO.  Mattel subsequently sold it all to Gore Technology Group for nothing but a share of the profits that Gores could obtain by selling the properties.
As a result, Ubisoft continues to publish Chessmaster titles, and Riverdeep continues to publish new versions of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.  New versions of these products no longer use the Software Toolworks brand.
Mindscape was made a separate company in 2001 following the purchase of the international division of The Learning Company from the Gore Technology Group by Jean-Pierre Nordman.  In April 2002 Montparnasse Multimedia was purchased by Mindscape.
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Some of the statements (from the previous Mindscape article) sound a bit dubious, review by someone knowledgeable is needed. Arru 20:07, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Mindscape-2.PNG

message: :Image:Mindscape-1.PNG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Mindscape-1.PNG

message: The article states the logo is from 1994, however Legend (Four crystals for trazere) uses this logo, and that game is from 1992.
Mamen (talk) 17:30, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo