Millennium Interactive
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Millennium Interactive was a Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

-based computer games
Computer Games
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 developer responsible for titles such as Rome: Pathway to Power
Rome: Pathway to Power
Rome: Pathway to Power is an adventure game with strategic elements set in ancient Rome. The objective is to advance a character from a Roman slave throughout the ranks of Roman society and eventually become Caesar.Rome: Pathway to Power used an isometric interface and was based on an engine...

, The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood (video game)
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a video game released in the autumn of 1991 by Millennium Interactive.The protagonist, Robin of Loxley, is robbed of his castle by the Sheriff of Nottingham and has to get it back with the help of Maid Marian, Little John, Will Scarlet and Friar Tuck.The gameplay can...

, James Pond
James Pond
James Pond, also known as James Pond: Underwater Agent, is a platform video game that was developed by British video game developers Vectordean Ltd and Millennium Interactive, and published by Millennium Interactive and Electronic Arts for numerous home computers and consoles in 1990...

, Defcon 5
Defcon 5 (video game)
Defcon 5 is a single player adventure/first-person shooter video game developed by Millennium Interactive Ltd, a UK-based studio. It was released for IBM PC compatibles,Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn and 3DO Interactive Multiplayer in 1995...

, Deadline and most notably, Creatures
Creatures (artificial life program)
Creatures is an artificial life computer program series, created in the mid-1990s by English computer scientist Steve Grand whilst working for the Cambridge computer games developer Millennium Interactive...

. Another notable title is Strike II, a 3-D air combat science fiction game.

In July 1997 they were sold to Sony Computer Entertainment
Sony Computer Entertainment
Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. is a major video game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry, and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products & Services Group of Sony...

. This allowed Sony to acquire MediEvil
MediEvil
MediEvil is a platform game released in October 1, 1998 for the PlayStation in Europe and North America, and in June 1999 in Japan. The game was followed by MediEvil 2 in 2000. Then, in 2005, the original game was remade as MediEvil: Resurrection for the PlayStation Portable...

, then in development by Millennium. However, the Creatures series remained with the original developers spun out as Cyberlife Technology Ltd.
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