Rockstar Phoenix

Rockstar Productions, Inc., also known as Rockstar Phoenix (formerly Wild Coyote Productions, and Digital Imp Interactive) is an American video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Tempe, Arizona. Founded by brothers, Victor "Vick" Roth and Eugene Roth as Digital Imp Interactive in 1986, the company was one of Arizona's first video game developer. In 1995, after moving from Phoenix to Tempe, the company would rebrand to Wild Coyote Productions.

In 1998, Take-Two entered a deal with Wild Coyote in which the company would be the exclusive porter of Rockstar Games for Nintendo home consoles. In 2005, Take-Two would purchase the company outright. Today, Rockstar Phoenix still develops ports of Rockstar games for Nintendo consoles.

1986-1995: Early years
In December 2nd 1986, brothers Victor Roth and Eugene Roth had recently graduated from the Arizona State University in Technology. Seeing the recent success of video games, the two brothers founded Digital Imp Interactive three days later. The name "Digital Imp Interactive" had no meaning other than it sounded cool. The first game to be created by DII was a remake of Pong for the NES released in August 6th, 1987. Later on as the years came by, Digital Imp gained a name for itself after the company developed a platformer inspired by Super Mario Brothers known as Cary & Noah which was DII's second game ever made. Seeing the company's capabilities, Nintendo entered in a deal with DII in which Nintendo would not only distributed future DII titles, but also allow DII to use select Nintendo characters. The games that were apart of this deal included Super Mario Bros 2: The Original Japanese Sequel, Metroid Prologue, and The Legend of Zelda: The In-Between Story. However by 1991, Nintendo's contract with the company expired.