GTE Interactive was founded as
GTE ImagiTrek in 1990 by Richard E. Robinson, as a division of GTE Vantage, In the same month, the partnership previewed its first title,
FX Fighter, at
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. In 1995, the division employed a high of 120 employees. Experiencing difficulties in the video game market and with the
Telecommunications Act of 1996 putting a pinch on GTE due to deregulation, the division began to steadily lay off staff. The parent company GTE planned to cease its own content creation in favor of feeding its networks with the rapidly expanding market of third party content. The remaining "skeleton staff" would provide technical support and further shutdown services through June 30. Citing hardships in the entire CD-ROM market, Dick Nordman, finance director for GTE's New Ventures group in
Irving, Texas, explained, "In the beginning, the idea was that we wanted to get into the content business. Now, with everything else going on in the telecommunications industry, we felt our energies would be better spent in the telco arena." == List of games ==