GamePark goes under, GamePark Holdings still kickin'
By Donald Melanson 
posted March 19th 2007 3:41PM
posted March 19th 2007 3:41PM
Word's been a little slow reaching our shores, but it appears that GamePark couldn't stand up to the competition from its GamePark Holdings spin-off, with the former company recently declaring bankruptcy and its website now ignominiously replaced by a shoe store. For those in need of a quick primer, GamePark is the company that brought us the original GP32 (pictured above) and, more recently, announced a number of different XGP handhelds. GamePark Holdings, on the other hand, emerged as a separate company after an apparent spat among GamePark employees about the direction of the company. Those that chose to defect quickly got their act together and delivered the more-popular GP2X device, presumably to the dismay of GamePark proper. While they don't appear to have made any comment on this latest development, we can only assume they're feeling a little bit vindicated, and no doubt celebrated with a bit of homebrew champagne.[Via PSP Fanboy]
Shocking.
I panicked reading the headline, thinking that I'd never get my GP2X, before comprehending what it said. Definitely not shocking. It's taken them so long to get something out, I figured they'd gone under already.
Gamepark Holdings is essentially composed of the staff who made the original GP32. Gamepark then retained the types who tried to sell the device as a platform to game companies (and failed both times).
Wow, I still have my old GP32 BLU in my desk drawer. I've had a good 2 years fiddling with all the homebrew stuff, but as soon as I got a PSP then a DS it was over.
O well, at least the good side of the original company is still kicking.
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=36023
Here is the original webiste wich published the news :
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pockett.net%2F%2Fnews.php%3Fid%3D2508&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=fr&c2coff=1&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools