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Open Production
Open Production (열림 기획) was a South Korean software developer. It was founded on May 20th, 1992 by Kim Eulsuk, and employed the programmers Koo Eunjoong and Lee Sanghun as well as several former employees of Zemina. Open soon became a second-party developer for Daou, which resulted in a prolific period of game production for 8-bit consoles. Open started developing PC games in late 1994.
On March 18th, 1996, a sister company called Open Tech was established. Open Tech eventually began focusing on PC hardware and network technology, while the original company concentrated on vending machines for batteries, karaoke machines, and remote-controlled fragrance dispensers before becoming defunct around 1998.
Four of the games developed by Open saw an Australian release in 1995, when HES published 4 Pak All Action.
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Hello Mr. President
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OPeNBooK Co., Ltd.
OPeNBooK Co., Ltd. was a Japanese company founded in 1993 by Yoot Saito.
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SimTower: The Vertical Empire
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Opera Soft S.A.
Spanish company founded in 1986, and which closed in 1992. It was part of what was known as The Golden Era Of Spanish Software, along with other companies like Zigurat, Topo Soft and Dinamic. While its first work was the Commodore 64 version of Camelot Warriors, its first original game was Livingstone, I Presume?, which brought the company wider success.
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Livingstone I Presume?
MOT
Corsarios
Golden Basket
Gonzzalezz
Goody
Poogaboo: La Pulga 2
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Optik Software, Inc. |
Xixit
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Optimum Resource, Inc. |
Stickybear Town Builder
Car Builder
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Ordilogic Systems |
Unreal
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ORIGIN Systems, Inc.
Artificers of some of the greatest gaming franchises the world has ever known they are, and forever will be, scions of a golden age. We salute you, Origin. We salute you. Established in 1983, Origin (or Origin Systems) has become well known their Wing Commander, Ultima and Privateer titles. Acquired by Electronic Arts in the early 90's, Origin has recently been working on internet-only software, with the Ultima Online series.
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Ultima 1
Exodus: Ultima III
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny
Pagan: Ultima VIII
2400 A.D.
Ultima VII: The Black Gate
Ultima VII: Part Two - Serpent Isle
Windwalker
Wing Commander
Ultima VI: The False Prophet
Wing Commander 2 + Special Ops 1,2
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
Wing Commander Academy
Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire
Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2 - Martian Dreams
Times of Lore
Moebius
CyberMage: Darklight Awakening
Space Rogue
Autoduel
Omega
Knights of Legend
Bad Blood
Transland
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Orion Software, Inc. |
PCMan
J-Bird
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ORT Software
ORT Software is the company name used by Owen Thomas to sell his independently-made games.
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AstroFire
TerraFire
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OSP Enr.
Oracle Software Enr. (from 1990 to 1994)
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The Walls of Bratock
Champions of Zulula
Champions of Zulula: Elite Edition
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Outlaw |
Dragon Lord
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Overflow Productions |
Top Hat Willy
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Ovine by Design |
The Burps
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Oxford Digital Enterprises Ltd.
Oxford Digital Enterprises Ltd., also known as ODE, was a software development studio founded in 1983 by David Pringle when he met Gareth Blower while working on mainframe computers.
Their first program was called Macbeth and based on the play by William Shakespeare. Their first popular game was Titanic: The Recovery Mission, released in April 1986 by Electric Dreams Software and they also did Trivial Pursuit for Domark in the same year.
In 1993 Oxford Digital was acquired by Empire Interactive Europe Ltd. and became Empire Oxford, an internal Empire studio. The new team included all of ODE's employees.
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The Amazing Spider-Man
Team Yankee
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Oxford Softworks
Oxford Softworks is a development and publishing software house based in Buckinghamshire, England. Since the very birth of the leisure software industry, the company has been developing and publishing top quality games. They are well known in their field for producing software which possesses state of the art graphics, and the very strongest Artificial Intelligence response engines.
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Chess Simulator
Backgammon Royale
Complete Chess System
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Ozark Softscape
Headed by Dan Bunten, also consisting of Bill Bunten, Jim Rushing, and Alan Watson. Developed M.U.L.E., Seven Cities of Gold, and Heart of Africa.
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7 Cities of Gold
Command HQ
Modem Wars
Global Conquest
Robot Rascals
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P. K. Winter |
MQBE
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P.A.S. Systems
"Plain and Simple Systems," which developed the 1992 game Maelstrom that was then published by Merit Software. Mark Vange was their director.
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Maelstrom
Eight Ball Deluxe
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P.Z.Karen Co. Development Group
It contributed to the development of computer games in the late 1980s with titles such as Blockout, Street Rod, and Street Rod 2.
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Blockout
Street Rod 2: The Next Generation
Street Rod
Club Backgammon
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Pacific Gameworks |
Michael Jordan in Flight
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Pack Media Company, Inc. |
Elements
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Paer J |
The Simpsons: Tetris 2
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Painting by Numbers, Ltd.
Impact Software Development, Ltd. (from May 18, 1988 to Mar 15, 1990)
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Clive Barker's Nightbreed: The Action Game
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Palace Software, Ltd. |
Rad Warrior
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Panda Entertainment Technology Co., Ltd.
Panda Entertainment (熊貓軟體) was a Taiwanese game developer active during the 1990s. They are best known for their fighting games such as the Sango Fighter series.
In 2012, the company's entire back catalog was acquired by Super Fighter Team, which began to develop new products based on the material.
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West Adventure
Sango Fighter
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Pandora |
Into the Eagle's Nest
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Pangea Software, Inc.
Pangea Software is an Macintosh game company that is owned and operated by Brian Greenstone.
Formed in 1987, the company began by writing a number of shareware games for the Apple IIGS computer, with their first commercial game, Xenocide, being released in 1989. Their first published Macintosh game came in 1993.
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Xenocide
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Panoramic Software |
Hellfire Zone
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Papyrus Design Group, Inc.
Papyrus Design Group, Inc. was founded by David Kaemmer and his business partner Omar Khudari in 1987. It lasted for 17 years and is best known for its series of racing games based on the NASCAR and IndyCar leagues, with a stress on realism, as well as Grand Prix Legends.
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IndyCar Racing
Indianapolis 500: The Simulation
Nomad
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Paradise Programming |
Alternate Reality: The City
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Paragon Software |
Gemini-2
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Paragon Software Corporation
Paragon Software Corporation, based in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1985 by Mark E. Seremet and F. J. Lennon. The company's biggest successes were titles based on licenses from Marvel Comics and Game Designers' Workshop.
Paragon had a long relationship with MicroProse Software, who had distributed their games since at least 1988. MicroProse acquired Paragon outright in July, 1992. As part of MicroProse, the Paragon team developed Challenge of the Five Realms and BloodNet. Soon after, many of the former Paragon principals moved on to co-found or work for Take-Two Interactive, and what was once Paragon ceased to exist.
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MegaTraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy
MegaTraveller 2: Quest for the Ancients
Space 1889
The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge!
XF5700 Mantis Experimental Fighter
The Punisher
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Paragon Studios
Paragon Software Corporation or Paragon Studios were based in Pennsylvania. The company was established in 1985 and focused on licensed content from Marvel Comics.
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Twilight: 2000
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Park Place Productions |
The Dream Team: 3 on 3 Challenge
ABC Monday Night Football
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Parker Brothers
Parker Brothers was first established in 1888 and remained family owned until 1968, when the company was purchased by General Mills. The company's first forays into electronic gaming came in the late 1970's and early 1980's, when they began to produce electronic versions of their popular board games.
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Frogger II: ThreeeDeep!
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Parsec Entertainment Software |
Freak Out
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Particle Systems Ltd.
Particle Systems was a game development company formed in 1993 by industry veterans Michael Powell and Glyn Williams in the United Kingdom. The company specialized in science fiction games at the cutting edge of technology. The most well-known games from Particle were the Independence War series.
In 2002 Particle Systems was acquired by Argonaut Software and subsequently renamed Argonaut Sheffield. The company closed in 2004 as did this division.
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Evasive Action
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Parys Technografx |
Tower of Souls
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Pasadena Software |
1998 Amerika
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Pat Flieger |
The House at the Edge of Time
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Paul Sneesby |
Sneezboids
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Paul Tupaczewski |
DoubleLink
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PC Design Associates |
Oligopoly
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PC Globe Inc. |
BushBuck Charms, Viking Ships & Dodo Eggs
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PC Plus Magazine |
Galactix II: The Search for the Lost Orbs
Galactix
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PC Research Inc. |
3-Demon
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PCC, Inc. |
21
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PC-SIG
PC-SIG was the first mail order shareware disk vendor and one of the biggest shareware distributors in the 1980s.
PC-SIG was founded in 1984 by Richard Peterson and soon evolved, creating a network of international dealers and greatly promoting the idea of shareware worldwide. Its "Shareware Magazine" eventually became a bi-monthly sold at newsstands.
However, in 1992 or 1993, PC-SIG went out of business unexpectedly and without explanation.
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Disk Crash
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Peakstar Software |
Moonshine Racers
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Pelican Software |
Spooky Kooky Monster Maker
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