Game Park - 2002 Ambitions

2002 Ambitions

2002 was a year of good news at Game Park. In spring, the leaders of Game Park took a tour in France to discuss publishing matters with Infogrames and Atari. The visit was to conclude an association to launch the GP32 in North America under the Atari name. The contract was to be for one million systems and games made by Atari and Eidos. Some of those games would have been Deus Ex or even the Tomb Raider series.

Game Park also announced a variety of accessories to be made for the GP32, including a television module, a flash reader and an RF module for wireless multiplayer gaming, etc.

In May, the GP32 was presented at E3 2002 where it receives the moniker of "mini Xbox" for its multimedia capabilities. The DivX reader is announced, as well as the GPI, which is a GP32 capable of functioning as a video game console, a cell phone, and a PDA.

At the end of August was the ECTS in London. There, Game Park announced new games and the launch of the GP32 in Europe, before Christmas, first in the UK.

The JoyGP was also launched in 2002, a web site to download games for the GP32, both free and for cost. Game Park also made a contest called the ADIC. The contest consisted of making the best open source GP32 game. The prizes were development kits (3 in total), but only one was won. The game, Tie Break Tennis, that resulted from it was quickly forgotten.

Korean sites focused on the Game Boy Advance much more than the GP32.