History Creator / PhoenixGames

* DaddySystem: They were publishing games on the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation long after most publishers and developers had stopped supporting it. Notably, the ''Shoot'' compilation, released exclusively in Germany, was one of the ''very'' last games released for the console, being released in '''2005''' (in fact, it is one of only two games on the [=PS1=] to be copyrighted in 2005; the other being ''Music/{{Schnappi|DasKleineKrokodil}} – 3 Fun-Games'', another Germany-exclusive).

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: Despite many of the games being little more than a collection of awful sliding puzzles and mini-games, loading times can sometimes be upwards of ''a minute.'' Even worse, thanks to the incredibly poor quality of the discs, the games have a chance of potentially ''overheating'' and ''killing the [=PS2=]!'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKZQb-jH-7A&list=PLtADktUah7yyGuJqsLKQe-HhgvgKqumUW&index=2&t=0s See Caddicarus's review to experience the horror.]]

* ''Animal Soccer World'' (knock-off of ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'')
* ''Dinosaur Adventure'' (knock-off of ''The Land Before Time'')
* ''The Mouse Police'' (knock-off of ''The Great Mouse Detective'')
* ''The Toys Room'' (knock-off of ''Toy Story'')
* ''Dalmatians 3'' (knock-off of ''101 Dalmatians'')
* ''Countryside Bears'' (knock-off of ''The Country Bears'')

* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: Most of Phoenix's output is this, like from the aforementioned Dingo Pictures activity [=CDs=] for the [=PS2=], or uninspired and often janky clones of various video game franchises.

** The studio produced one game which earned positive reviews, ''Poppie'' -- but it was only released in Italy.

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The Aqua Pacific movies feature cartoony characters, but backgrounds and objects are CHI that looks right out of a [=PS1=]-era FMV cutscene.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: ''Snow White and the 7 Clever Boys'', as the title implies, replaces the seven dwarfs with human boys.

* {{Blackface}}: One of the titular boys in ''Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys'', Sonny, has this appearance. As he's a FlatCharacter like the others, this is unfortunately the only thing that makes him stand out.
* CompressedAdaptation: Their films (excluding ''Mighty Mulan'' and ''Legend of Herkules'') clock in at around 7 minutes each, so large sections of the story have to be left out. ''Pinocchio'' deserves an award for having a song that's less than a minute long covering ''everything'' (and we mean ''everything'': as soon as the song ends, it's back to the FramingDevice) after the first encounter with the Blue Fairy.

* GreenAesop: ''Peter Pan'' features the following line, in response to being told that Never Land looks very green:
--> '''Peter Pan:''' Yes. The Never Land residents care about nature. They love animals and don't destroy the gifts given to them by the earth.
* InformedAttribute: In ''Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys'', the narrator gives the boys sans Joseph Jr. various attributes, but we see little to none of them in action.

* SettingUpdate: ''Cinderella'' is set in modern times, with Cinderella driving a car to meet the prince at a nightclub. However, the narrator still calls these things a carriage and castle (which seems to be intentional, since he also mentions skyscrapers at the end).

* ObviousBeta: For a number of games, one of them being ''London Cab Challenge''.

Phoenix Games, known as Phoenix Games Ltd. in England, Phoenix Games B.V. in the Netherlands, Phoenix Games Asia in Thailand, and collectively as Phoenix Games Group, was a Dutch multinational game developer and video game publisher. Self-described as a “Super Budget Publisher,” the company’s business model was in the production and publishing of games sourced from small, independent developers at a limited time and budget, likely in order to get a quick return on investment with as little money and time as possible. Where as with most publishers production takes several months for budget games (or licensed tie-ins) to years for big-name, AAA-quality titles, Phoenix claims a 3-5 month turnaround time for works published under their label.

Despite not attracting mainstream attention from major video game magazines and review sites due to their frugal nature, Phoenix gained [[SoBadItsGood/VideoGames notoriety]] among gaming circles due to the quality of their games; some of these games being produced in collaboration with Creator/DingoPictures, a German studio infamous for producing ripoffs of Creator/{{Disney}} cartoons amongst others, and Aqua Pacific, a similar company.

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[[caption-width-right:350:That feeling when their logo looked a lot better than most of the games they published.]]
What happens when a bunch of Dutch businessmen decided that skimping on video game production budgets as much as possible is a viable business model?

Phoenix Games, known as Phoenix Games Ltd. in England, Phoenix Games B.V. in the Netherlands, Phoenix Games Asia in Thailand, and collectively as Phoenix Games Group, was a Dutch multinational game developer and publisher of cheap, bargain-bin games. Self-described as a “Super Budget Publisher,”[[note]]Let's hope for their sake that “super” applies to “budget”, [[SmallNameBigEgo rather than “publisher”]][[/note]] the company’s business model was in the production and publishing of games sourced from small, independent developers at a limited time and budget, likely in order to get a quick return on investment with as little money and time as possible. Where as with most publishers production takes several months for budget games (or licensed tie-ins) to years for big-name, AAA-quality titles, Phoenix claims a 3-5 month turnaround time for works published under their label.

Despite not attracting mainstream attention from major video game magazines and review sites due to their frugal nature, Phoenix gained [[SoBadItsGood/VideoGames notoriety]] among gaming circles due to the abysmal quality of their games; some of these [[InNameOnly "games"]] being produced in collaboration with Creator/DingoPictures, a German studio infamous for producing ripoffs of Creator/{{Disney}} cartoons amongst others, and Aqua Pacific, a similar company.

'''Made in association with Aqua Pacific:'''[[note]]The titles marked with an asterisk was made also in association with Wrocław, Poland-based Longsoft Multimedia[[/note]]

Phoenix Games, known as Phoenix Games Ltd. in England, Phoenix Games B.V. in the Netherlands, Phoenix Games Asia in Thailand, and collectively as Phoenix Games Group, was a Dutch multinational game developer and publisher of cheap, bargain-bin games. Self-described as a [[SmallNameBigEgo “Super Budget Publisher,”]] the company’s business model was in the production and publishing of games sourced from small, independent developers at a limited time and budget, likely in order to get a quick return on investment with as little money and time as possible. Where as with most publishers production takes several months for budget games (or licensed tie-ins) to years for big-name, AAA-quality titles, Phoenix claims a 3-5 month turnaround time for works published under their label.