Radica Games Limited is a company that produces electronic games. On October 3, 2006, Mattel, Inc.

Mattel

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  announced the completion of their acquisition of Radica. Radica was originally founded in 1983. It began by producing electronic souvenir

Souvenir

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 games for casino

Casino

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s. In the late 1990s, it became famous for its Bass Fishin line of games. While Radica still produces many electronic handheld games based on casino or card games, it has also branched out into other types of toys, board games, and video game accessories.

Products

Product lines under Radica, past and present, include:

• PlayTV - Examples include PlayTV Football, Skateboarding, and Baseball.
• PlayTV Legends - Formerly known as "Arcade Legends," this line includes plug-n-play systems featuring video games licensed from Sega
  Sega
  , usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...
  
   and Taito
  Taito
  Taito may mean:*Taito Corporation, a Japanese developer of video game software and arcade hardware*Taito, Tokyo, a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan*Taito, also known as matai, paramount chiefs according to Fa'a Samoa...
  
  , as well as Tetris
  Tetris
  Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...
  
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• Skannerz
  Skannerz
  Skannerz is a series of electronic toys made by Radica Games that use barcode technology to create an interactive battle game. Radica brand barcodes have the additional feature of being able to act as a healing code in the first 2 iterations of the game....
  
  
• 20Q
  20Q
  20Q is a computerized game of twenty questions that began as an experiment in artificial intelligence . It was invented by Robin Burgener....
  
  (electronic toy version)
• Cube World - This is an electronic toy featuring stick people as characters on black-and-white LCD screens, 2006 - 2008
• U.B. Funkeys
  U.B. Funkeys
  U.B. Funkeys was a personal computer game for children. However, it seems now that the series has been discontinued. It can be played both online and offline. Play consists of a personal computer game that works together with collectible figures that represent characters in the game. Currently,...
  
  - August 26, 2007 - present
• Talking Buzz Lightyear
• Loopz

See also

• Play TV
  Play TV (Radica)
  Play TV is a series of Interactive Plug-N-Play Game systems by Radica. Play TV is also known as ConnecTV in the United Kingdom.-Play TV series members:* Baseball/Baseball 2/Baseball 3* Football/Football 2...
  
  
• Majesco Entertainment
  Majesco Entertainment
  Majesco Entertainment is a video game publisher founded in 1986.-History:Majesco first made a name as a reissuer of old titles that had been abandoned by their original publisher. By cutting the prices dramatically and, eventually, arranging the rights to self-manufacture games for both Nintendo...
  
  
• Jakks Pacific
  Jakks Pacific
  JAKKS Pacific, Inc. is a designer and marketer of toys and consumer products, with a range of products that feature numerous children's toy licenses...