| Codemasters | Codemasters is one of the oldest British software companies. It was found by Richard Darling, David Darling(his brother) and Jim Darling(their father) in 1986. They started with 8-bit and later with 16-bit games. Their most famous games are those from Dizzy series, Micromachines, ... |
Micro Machines
Kwik Snax
Fantasy world Dizzy
Magicland Dizzy
Bubble Dizzy
Micro Machines 2
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| MicroLeague Multimedia, Inc. | Was founded in 1989 as MicroLeague Sports Association in Pennsylvania. The company's main assembly and manufacturing facilities were located in Newark, Delaware and their headquarters was in Pennsylvania.
Microleague was one of key developers of sports simulation games. |
BRIX
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| Titus Interactive | Titus Interactive was french video game developing company. They were active between years 1985 and 2004.
Company was founded in year 1985 by 19-years old Eric Caen and his best friend Gil Espeche. In the beggining,
Titus is creating and customizing games under the name of other companies (Matra, Loriciel, F.I.L, Infogrames)
First game under the label &qout;Titus" is Erebus in 1986, then Maddog and in the end of 1986 Crazy Cars for Amiga.
Success of Crazy Cars allowed Titus to create only his own product line. Next success were Fire and Forget,
Galactic Conqueror and Titan. Titus went to USA market in early 1988 and entered stock exchange in 1996. In 1998
they bough Digital Integration and BlueSky Software. Then they became majority shareholder of Interplay Entertainment
and Virgin Interactive in 1999. Titus bankrupted in 2004. |
Crazy Cars 2
Crazy Cars 3
Fox
Prehistorik 2
Prehistorik
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| Blizzard | Blizzard Entertainment® is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software. After establishing the Blizzard Entertainment label in 1994, the company quickly became one of the most popular and well-respected makers of computer games. By focusing on creating well-designed, highly enjoyable entertainment experiences, Blizzard Entertainment has maintained an unparalleled reputation for quality since its inception. |
Lost Vikings
Warcraft
Blackthorne
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| Microprose | Originally started in 1982 by industry legends Sid Meier and Bill Stealey, Microprose became known throughout the video game industry as a cutting edge computer game designer and publisher. Focusing primarily on high tech military and strategy simulations, the company eventually merged with Spectrum HoloByte by the 1990’s. After going through a series of further changes in ownership, the name and its legacy was wiped out by Infogrames in 2001. |
Civilization
Stunts
Colonization
Railroad Tycoon
Transport Tycoon
X-COM : Terror From The Deep
UFO: Enemy Unknown
1942: The Pacific Air War
Railroad Tycoon Deluxe
Pirates
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| Apogee | Since 1987, Apogee Software has been a multifaceted pioneer and innovator in the PC gaming industry. Apogee’s first breakthrough was in shareware marketing. Apogee is considered the founder and original champion of the independent game developer. In 1994 Apogee created a new division, 3D Realms Entertainment, with the goal of developing innovative, interactive, immersive and of course fun 3D action games. |
Duke Nukem 2
Duke Nukem 3
Duke Nukem
Commander Keen 1
Commander Keen 2
Commander Keen 3
Commander Keen 4
Commander Keen 5
Commander Keen 6
Commander Keen 7
Monster Bash
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| Westwood Studio | Westwood Studios was a computer and video game developer, founded in 1985 as Westwood Associates by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle and based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Westwood is best know for developing game series in the real-time strategy, adventure, and role-playing genres. In 2003, the company was acquired and closed by Electronic Arts, which continues to develop games based on Westwood's Command & Conquer series. |
Dune 2
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| Immortality production | |
Cold Dreams
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| Pixel Painters Corporation |
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Laser Light
Dig It
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| Interplay | Interplay Productions, Inc. was founded in Southern California in 1983 with Brian Fargo as president, and three programmers, Jay Patel, Troy Worrell and Bill Heineman. They released many hit games over the course of the 90's including Earthworm Jim, Fallout 1 & 2 and baldurs gate before going bankrupt in 2005.
They resurfaced in 2007, but most of their intellectual property has been sold off, most notably the sale of the Fallout licence to Bethesda. |
Battle Chess
Battle Chess 4000
Castles
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| Kingsoft | Kingsoft GmbH was a computer and video game software distributor, headquartered in Aachen, Germany, and founded in 1983. They were a prominent developer and publisher of Commodore C64 computer games. They were acquired by Electronic Arts on March 8, 1995. It was acquired in order to allow direct distribution of software to the German region. |
Bug Bomber
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| Blue Byte | Blue Byte GmbH is one of the pioneers of Germany's video game sector. Founded in 1988 and based in the Ruhr area, its business is the development of entertainment software. The game studio quickly grew into a German publisher with its own sales branches in Great Britain, the USA and Australia. Blue Byte produced two of the best known series in the history of Germany computer gaming: THE SETTLERS® series and the Battle Isle™ saga. |
UGH
Settlers
Settlers 2
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| Accolade | Accolade was an American video game developer and publisher of the 1980s and 1990s. It was founded in 1984 by game industry veterans Alan Miller and Bob Whitehead. Miller and Whitehead founded Accolade after leaving another game developer and publisher they had founded, Activision, the first third-party game developer. |
Grand Prix Circuits
Grand Prix - The Cycles
Test Drive 3
Summer Games
Test Drive 2
Test Drive
The Games: Winter Challenge
Gunboat
Star Control
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