Fox Video Games

Fox Video Games was a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox that focused on the video games. It was founded in April 1982 with Frank O'Connell as president. They were one of the few companies that developed video subsidiaries in 1982 including MCA Inc., the parent company of Universal Pictures creating MCA Video Games.

A large portion of video games released by Fox Video Games were tie-in titles to various films. The company had a joint venture with Sacramento-based Sirius Software who would developed over a dozen titles for the Atari 2600 for the company. While initially focusing on Atari's home video game console, they began expanding their development teams in 1983 to creategames for home computers such as the VIC-20, and Atari 8-bit family of personal computers. George Williamson and John Eckhouse of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that Fox Video Games experienced terrible financial losses by overproducing cartridges of their video game M*A*S*H (1983). 20th Century Fox left the video games industry in 1983.

Following the closure of Fox Video Games, 20th Century Fox reported a net profit of $4.9 million in the first quarter of 1984 despite a $6.8 million write-off from the games division. Terry Bradley, the co-founder of Sirius Software said that after Fox Video Games left video game industry, it left their company on the brink of closure in 1984 as Sirius developed 13 games in six months for Fox Video Games while the latter company only delivered one of the contracted 18 titles.