Tivola Publishing (Germany)

Background: Tivola is a German-based CD-ROM company located in New York, London and Berlin, generally focused on children's titles on PC and Mac. Their titles are intended by them to "stimulate a child's curiosity, while encouraging smart play."

1st Logo (1995-2004)

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Nicknames: "Marching Shadows" "Tivola at the Parade"

Logo: On a distorted light orange background with a jagged red ground, we see a marching band with three drummers, two fluters and a dog with a book on it's back in shadow black walking across the screen. The hats and book fly upwards and morph into the Tivola logo with "PUBLISHING" text appearing below.

Variants: There is a variant where the marching band is replaced with some fancily dressed people. Their hats fly off their heads and form the Tivola logo. For this variant, "Electronic Publishing" appears beneaththe logo.

FX/SFX: The marching band, the morphing of the Tivola logo.

Music/Sounds: A marching band tune with drums and flutes.

Music/Sounds Variant: For the variant, a synthesized version of the tune is heard. Availability: Rare. Can be seen on games from the company such as Where's The Blanket Charlie Brown? (known as Linus in Not! in German).

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (????-????)

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Logo: TBA

FX/SFX: TBA

Music/Sounds: A re-recorded and shorter version of the music from the previous logo.

Availability: Unknown. Probably seen on games from the time.

Editor's Note: TBA

3rd Logo (2004 -)

Logo: The logo is a black word "Tivola" with "O" replaced with orange spiral.

FX/SFX: The logo shines, or nothing.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Mostly seen on NDS.

Editor's Note: None.