[2][3] While the company was based in New Jersey, David Crane worked out of his home on the West Coast.

However, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) had already displaced Atari's dominance of the video game console market.

Kitchen swiftly shifted his focus to the NES, and produced several games for the platform, beginning with A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia in 1989, and Battle Tank in 1990.

[citation needed] Absolute Entertainment absorbed its studio Imagineering in 1992 to become itself a video game developer for the first time.

In the third quarter of 1995, Absolute Entertainment went bankrupt and suspended operations and laid off most of its staff.