Talk:Home Entertainment Suppliers

HES was formerly Activision?

They began distributing Commodore 64 titles such as Pitfall! in 1982 and Kung-Fu Master in 1985 and Atari 2600 titles nearing the end of the 1980's under the name Activision.

It says HES was formerly Activision, but Activision still exists. Plus, HES isn't mentioned in the Activision article at all. Can someone confirm this? ~ Mpontes 22:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Think of Video game production having three steps. 1) Development, 2) Publishing, 3) Distrubution. In America and Britain most pubslihers distribute but in a country like Australia where they have no means of doing so they rely on local distributors. HES is one of Australias distributors. Now to anwer your question, HES distributed Activisions video games but (I can only guess) as part of their contract couldnt be credited, so the games were distributed simply under the Activision name. - UnlimitedAccess 02:22, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

This is not correct. Activision existed before HES and both companies exist today. HES used to distribute Activision games within Australia. I believe the confusion surrounding this stems from when some of these Activision games used to have boxes labelled "Activision Presents..." and others had "HES Presents..." but all of the games were produced by Activision. Back then, HES never produced their own games.

That is what I said. Except HES has never really produced their own games, they dont even publish their own games, they distribute them. - UnlimitedAccess 06:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)