Butterfly Studios

Butterfly Studios is a Canadian software company founded in 1986. The studio was founded by Mildred and Yvonne White, two programmers who previously worked at Atari. Butterfly Studios is still alive to this day now being owned by Atari Inc. The studio is known for the Red's Adventure Franchise. It also distributed Tamagotchi games in the US.

History
The orgins of Butterfly Games was in 1985 when two sisters were kicked out of Atari for planning to make a game for the NES. So in 1985, they wanted to have revenge and found a studio themselves. In 1987, they released two games, both on the NES. The Adventures of Petalboy and Rainbow Girls. Their last game of the 1980s was Chickenman in 1989.

In 1992, the studio had an exclusive licensing rights to Nintendo and became strictly a Nintendo developer until 1995 when the studio was acquired by DIC Entertainment. Causing the studio to release licensed games outside of Nintendo consoles. This didn't really matter until 1997 with the relase of Petalboy 64 and Red's Adventure. Which both were released also on the PlayStation.

In 2002, when Disney sold off DIC Entertainment, Vivendi Universal Games brought 50% of the studio. With that, the company developed an online service for the Gameboy Advance. Also in the same year, they made another franchise, Milkboy: Tales of a Milk Blob for the Gameboy Advance. In 2006, Vivendi Universal Games attempted to absorb the studio. However, DIC Entertainment refused to accept the offer and even threatened that they would sell their share to CBS Corporation. Another time occurred in 2007 when Zuniga/Schreiber Entertainment attempted to acquire DIC Entertainment as a whole.

As of 2021, the studio is owned by WildBrain and Activision and remains as a distributor for Activision's games in the UK and Japan. In 2021, following the announcement of Pearl: A Petalboy Series, Butterfly Studios sold the rights to the Petalboy and Red's Adventure series to Paramount Digital Entertainment and Platinum Games. LandonToei purchased the company shortly after the sale.

List of games
This is a list of video games made and distributed Butterfly Games Games. More to come!