Monte Cristo (company)

Monte Cristo

Industry	Interactive entertainment
Fate	Bankruptcy
Founded	1995
Founders	Jean-Marc de Fety Jean-Cristophe Marquis
Defunct	2010
Headquarters	Paris, France
Website	www.montecristogames.com

Monte Cristo was a French computer game developer and publisher, based in Paris. It was established in 1995 by former Credit Suisse First Boston vice-president Jean-Marc de Fety and former Mars & Co strategy senior consultant Jean-Cristophe Marquis. The company was led by Jean-Christophe Marquis and Jérome Gastaldi since 2002. Monte Cristo declared bankruptcy in May 2010 following poor sales of Cities XL.^[1]

Games developed and published

• Airline Tycoon
• Th3 Plan
• Wall Street Trader 97
• Wall Street Trader 98
• Wall Street Trader 99
• Wall Street Trader 2000
• City Trader
• Economic War
• Crazy Factory
• Dino Island
• Medieval Lords: Build, Defend, Expand
• Micro Commandos
• 7 Sins
• City Life, published by cdv Software Entertainment
• Cities XL, originally known as Cities Unlimited
• Silverfall
• Stardom: Your Quest For Fame, also known as TV Star
• Platoon
• Pop Life
• Pompiers Tycoon
• Start-Up
• KAZooK, published by Xplosiv
• Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps
• D-Day
• Moscow to Berlin: Red Siege
• 1944 Battle of the Bulge
• Fire Department series including:
  • Emergency Fire Response (aka Fire Department in Europe and Fire Chief in UK)
  • Fire Department 2
  • Fire Department: Episode 3
• Starpeace, published by Oceanus Communications
• TV Star

References

1. Priest, Simon (28 May 2010). "Cities XL developer Monte Cristo Games closes doors "this week"". StrategyInformer. Retrieved 25 September 2010.

External links

• Monte Cristo Multimedia at MobyGames