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==History== | ==History== | ||
THQ was founded in April of 1990 by former LJN co-founder Jack friedman. Over the next several decades, THQ would establish itself as a leader in the video game industry, paticularly with licensed games. They would implement the strategy of buying smaller studios as subsidiaries and publish low to mid budget licensed games based on | THQ was founded in April of 1990 by former LJN co-founder Jack friedman. Over the next several decades, THQ would establish itself as a leader in the video game industry, paticularly with licensed games. They would implement the strategy of buying smaller studios as subsidiaries and publish low to mid budget licensed games based on licenses from other companies. Their most successful titles were games based on properties from {{wp|20th Century Fox}}, {{wp|Warner Bros.}}, {{wp|Viacom}}, {{wp|Disney}}, {{wp|Pixar}} and {{wp|World Championship Wrestling}}. | ||
THQ would have a brief relationship with [[Rare Ltd.]], in which they would publish several games for the [[Game Boy Advance]]. This was possible because [[Microsoft]] still allowed Rare to develop games for competitors' handhelds, including [[Nintendo]]'s Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS, as Microsoft had no stake in the portable console market. In the case of ''[[Banjo-Kazooie (series)|Banjo-Kazooie]]'', these games were ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]'' and ''[[Banjo-Pilot]]''. | THQ would have a brief relationship with [[Rare Ltd.]], in which they would publish several games for the [[Game Boy Advance]]. This was possible because [[Microsoft]] still allowed Rare to develop games for competitors' handhelds, including [[Nintendo]]'s Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS, as Microsoft had no stake in the portable console market. In the case of ''[[Banjo-Kazooie (series)|Banjo-Kazooie]]'', these games were ''[[Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge]]'' and ''[[Banjo-Pilot]]''. | ||
