Tantalus Media

Tantalus Media (formerly Tantalus Interactive) is a video game developer based in Melbourne, Australia, founded in 1994 by former Beam Software programmers Trevor Nuridin, Tim Bennett and Andrew Bailey. In the mid 1990's Tantalus was partly owned by UK developer Perfect Entertainment, which secured contracts with Psygnosis for ports of their popular PlayStation games to the Sega Saturn. During this time, Tantalus was known as Tantalus Entertainment, but reverted to Tantalus Interactive after they became independent when separating from Perfect in 1998. Private investment then allowed the business to develop it's inhouse title 7th Gear to the point it was able to secure a contract from Akklaim to use the game engine for a "kart" style game with the South Park license. The company changed its name to Tantalus Media in 2007 following a hostile buy out from then CEO Tom Crago and an investment from private equity company Netus. In 2010 following the completion of the DS & PSP title Megamind: The blue defender, CEO Tom Crago re-acquired the business from Netus.

Tantalus Media are best known for licensed platform conversions and have created over 45 games for platforms as such as Xbox, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and PC, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Nintendo Switch and iOS.

Games developed

 * Looney Tunes: Space Race (DC - 2000) (PS2 - 2002)
 * Woody Woodpecker in Crazy Castle 5 (GBA - 2002)
 * Bambi: Attack of the Gembreakers! (GBA, N-Gage - 2003)
 * The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius – Attack of the Twonkies (GBA - 2004)
 * Puyo Puyo Fever 2 (DS, GBA - 2005)
 * SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger (DS, PSP - 2005)
 * Bob the Builder: Built to be Wild (PSP - 2006)
 * Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary (DS, GBA - 2007)
 * Upside Mystery 2 (DS - 2010)