Sentimental Games

Sentimental Games is a defunct video game publishing company that was in operation from 1994 to 2000, when it was folded into Universal Interactive. Formed by Howard Phillips, Tom Sloper, Matt Householder and Multimedia Interactive producer Edward Morris, Sentimental specialized on publishing games for fourth and fifth generation consoles and Windows platforms.

History
The origins of Sentimental started in April 1994 when former Nintendo and THQ producer Howard Phillips, former Activision producers Tom Sloper and Matt Householder and Edward Morris, formerly of Multimedia Interactive, joined forces to create a game publishing company, with the financial backing of Getty Oil. Sentimental got the license to produce a video game based on the movie A Troll in Central Park and it will appear on video game systems in late 1994.

Householder said they will support current and popular consoles like the Jaguar, 3DO, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear, MS-DOS, Windows 3.x and Macintosh platforms at that time the company got launched. The next title on the footsteps, will be The Dragon's Sorcerer, which will based on an original concept Howard Phillips has been devised for Sentimental. The game was announced to appear as early as 1995. John Skeel, former Accolade employee joined the company.

The success led to Sentimental producing licensed titles, based on various TV shows like Bump in the Night and What-a-Mess along with some original content. It was announced that in September 1995 that Universal Interactive bought out the company, making it the game's publishing label, and it was finalized by Christmas. It was one of the earlier acquisitions Universal received, predating Multimedia Interactive in 1996.

Universal announced that it will lay off 200 employees of the game's publishing arm by 1996, relegating it to a label for more mature audience titles. It was announced that Universal would use its Universal Interactive Studios label for family-friendly games, and it would use the Sentimental label for video games that would be aimed for a older audience. It was announced that in 2000 that Sentimental would fold into Universal Interactive.

List of games
This is a list of video games made and distributed by Sentimental Games.