Timeline

1984 ■ Coktel Vision is founded by Roland Oskian.

1985 ■ The company releases include Cap Horn, Raid Sur Ténéré and San Pablo.

1986 ■ The first Asterix licensed game launches.

1987 ■ Muriel Tramis joins Coktel Vision and debuts with Méwilo.

1988 ■ Tomahawk is created as the label for Coktel’s games.

1989 ■ Erotic adventure game Emmanuelle, based on the, err, ‘powers of seduction’, is released.

1990 ■ Fighting game No Exit is released (and even gets a GX4000 version).

1991 ■ European Space Simulator Mega (ESS Mega) proves a stunning simulation.

■ Gobliiins is released and becomes Coktel’s best-known game.

1992 ■ Coktel Vision becomes a subsidiary of Sierra On-line.

■ Edutainment videogame Adibou launches, cementing Coktel’s educational market share.

1993 ■ Lost In Time by Muriel Tramis is Coktel’s first FMV PC adventure game.

1994 ■ The child-focused, cartoonlike Playtoons series is launched.

1995 ■ The first-person space combat videogame The Last Dynasty is shot down by reviewers.

1996 ■ Urban Runner flops.

1997 ■ Sierra On-line submerges into the Cendant Corporation.

1998 ■ Sierra becomes part of Havas Interactive which is acquired by Vivendi.

1999 ■ Roland Oskian leaves Coktel which focuses more heavily on educational-focused games.

2000 ■ Coktel treads water and a string of Adibou games continue to be released.

2003 ■ Muriel Tramis leaves.

2005 ■ Vivendi Universal Games is acquired by Mindscape.

2011 ■ Mindscape closes, causing Coktel’s history to end, too.