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Vicarious Visions is a video game developer. It was founded by Karthik and Guha Bala circa 1990. Developers of Terminus, it won them an Independent Games Festival Award in 1999 and they became known as a leading developer of handheld games breaking ground by porting the Tony Hawk series to Game Boy Advance, and the Spider-Man games Spider-Man 2 and Ultimate Spider-Man to the Nintendo DS handheld system. They're also known for Crash Nitro Kart and successful ports of Jedi Knight II & as well as Id software's Doom 3. Terminus, an online, multiplayer space trading and combat simulation game, was notable for including Windows, Linux, and Macintosh versions in its retail packaging. The game is currently fan-supported. The largest site devoted to the game is http://www.terminuspoint.com/. In 2003, VV acquired the assets of failing middleware tools provider Intrinsic Graphics, folding the technology into its own production suite. In January 2005, Vicarious Visions was acquired by publisher Activision. After being acquired they have since made the successful Tony Hawk's American Sk8land, which was the second Nintendo Wi-fi Connection enabled game. The headquarters of Vicarious Visions is located in a newly-renovated section of an old industrial building in Menands, New York, just outside the state capital of Albany.
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