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Andrew McNab |
AM's Mini Golf 3D
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Raoul Said |
Spit Wad Willy
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16-Blitz |
Conflict
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221B Software Development |
Alcatraz
Hero Quest
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3000AD, Inc.
3000AD, Inc. is an independent game development company founded in 1992 by industry veteran Derek Smart. The company became famous through the long-running Battle Cruiser series. All of the games developed by the company have been made freeware afterwards.
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Battlecruiser 3000AD
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47-TEK, Inc. |
Sento
Creep Clash
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4th Generation Studios GmbH |
Die Sage von Nietoom
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5th Interactive |
Colony 28
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A. BendiMerad |
Chacal 3D
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A. Safonov & S. Kuzmin |
MegaDestroyer Frantis
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Abacus |
Cannonade
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Abe Pralle |
The Puzzle Pits
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Abersoft Limited
Abersoft was a games development company that started up in Wales in the 1980's. One of their first games was a reworking of the 1978 Will Crowther and Don Woods text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure which spawned so many variants around that time.
Abersoft probably became a limited company around 1998. It is thought that the company no longer participates in the games industry since their website has dealt with the rental of housing units since 2005.
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Championship Manager: End of 1994 Season Data Up-date Disk
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Abracadata Ltd.
Originally based in Eugene, Oregon.
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Design Your Own Train: The Transit System Construction Set
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Abstract Concepts |
Mindfighter
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AcademySoft |
Tetris
Shawl
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Access Software, Inc.
Access Software is most famous for Links: The Challenge of Golf released in 1990 and the rest of the Links series which followed. The realistic golf games were a peak of the company creation and remained to the current days.
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10th Frame Bowling
Links 386 Pro
Amazon Guardians of Eden
Countdown
Links: The Challenge of Golf
Crime Wave
Heavy Metal
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Accidental Software |
Digital Downs
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Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. was founded in 1987. The company had then a successful 17 years during which it became a leading worldwide developer. The company started by porting arcade games to consoles but then started to develop also its own games.
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Super Solvers - Midnight Rescue
Street Fighting Man
Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands
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Acclaim Studios Salt Lake City
Sculptured Software was a game development company based in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) and founded in 1984 by George Metos, Peter Adams, and Bryan Brandenburg. George Metos incorporated the company on July 12, 1985 in the state of Utah with the help of some investors, as Sculptured Software, Inc.
The company was an early pioneer in the video gaming industry, porting many games from arcade to home console systems, and developing its own games as well. Two of Sculptured Software's first in-house games were Ninja and Street Surfer.
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Space Jam
Jack Nicklaus Golf & Course Design: Signature Edition
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Accolade
Accolade was founded in USA in the year 1984. The company was founded by people who originally left Activision. They however created many successful titles and series mainly from racing category like Test Drive or Grand Prix series.
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Grand Prix Circuits
Grand Prix - The Cycles
Test Drive 3
Summer Games
Test Drive 2
Test Drive
The Games: Winter Challenge
Gunboat
Les Manley in Lost in L.A
Les Manley in Search for The King
Steel Thunder
Mike Ditka Ultimate Football
Altered Destiny
Bar Games
Stratego
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Accursed Toys, Inc. |
Boppin'
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Achilleas G. Margaritis |
Ms PacMan
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Acme Animation Inc. |
Dive Bomber
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Acme Interactive, Inc. |
ABC Wide World of Sports Boxing
Bo Jackson Baseball
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Acord Games |
Hotel Romanstein
3D Land
Hotel Romanstein Gold 3
Monster Land
Gloomstein
Superheroes
Spacecraft
Capn Zapn
Supermod 3D
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ACRO Studio
ACRO Studio was a South Korean game developer. They were best known for their scrolling shoot-em-up games for the PC, one of which, Baryon (1995), was released in the West.
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Baryon
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Action Forms Ltd.
Founded in 1995, debuted in 1997 with Chasm - The Rift. The company also made Carnivores series and Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason.
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CHASM The Rift
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Action Games, Inc.
Action Games, Inc. was incorporated in the state of Delaware in 1986 and began life with QuarterPole, its original thoroughbred racing board game. The board game was the basis for the company's first computer game, QuarterPole, developed jointly with MicroLeague Sports under intellectual property license from Action Games. QuarterPole was upgraded to Hooves of Thunder, once again together with MicroLeague Sports. When Microleague ran into corporate difficulty and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, their license for the racing game series was cancelled. Action Games reissued Hooves of Thunder under its own label and has continued the development of the series in an upgrade to QuarterPole Plus.
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QuarterPole
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Action Graphics, Inc.
Action Graphics was a US game development studio incorporated on 18th September 1981 and it was closed in 1985. The studio was headed by Bob Ogdon, the software manager for Dave Nutting Associates, as a separate company spun off from Bally Manufacturing Corporation to develop games for the Bally Astrocade platform.
Development was not limited to that single platform, the studio also created games for the Atari 8-bit, 2600 and 5200, Adam, Amiga, ColecoVision and Commodore 64. The studio was closed during the development of Winter Games. Ogdon moved on to found Ogdon Micro Design, Inc. and later Mammoth Micro Productions. The employees Elaine Hodgson and Richard Ditton established Incredible Technologies, Inc..
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Winter Games
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Actionsoft Corporation |
Up Periscope!
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Actionware Corporation
Actionware was formed in Batavia, Illinois by Richard Parry. He was a hardware engineer who figured out how to modify some Nintendo light-guns to work with the Amiga (and when customers purchased the Amiga light-guns, they were just modified Nintendo light-guns). Actionware created 4 Amiga games and all of them supported these modified light-guns. Richard Parry moved out to the East Coast by the early 90's (1991 or 1992) and Actionware was gone.
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Capone
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Activision, Inc.
Activision was established in 1979 and followed the successful years until 1984. Then they struggled until 1989 when they stared to focus on software in general.
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Alter Ego (Female version)
Alter Ego (Male version)
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy
MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries
Apache Strike
Prophecy
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Acumen Software
Acumen Software is the name under which programmer Adrian B. Danieli released shareware software in the 1990's.
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Balloonz
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Ad Games |
VW Sharan: Pack 'n Puzzle
Die Welt
Surfen mit der jungen Fa
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Addix Software Development, Inc.
Addix Software Development, Inc. was a game development studio responsible for the DOS title Wrath of Earth (1995). According to Dave Faller, the seeds where planted in 1991 when he got together with Mark Spink to develop teaching software for a university.
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Wrath of Earth
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Adept Software
Adept Software is an independent game development studio located in Orlando, Florida. It was founded by Adam Pedersen. In the early-to-mid 1990s, Adept Software developed shareware games for the PC in MS-DOS. In more recent years, several of those games have been released as freeware and can be downloaded from their website. They also create free development tools for programmers. In 2012 Pedersen launched a Kickstarter campaign for a sequel to the 1993 DOS game Jetpack.
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God of Thunder
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Admiral Software |
Dr. Who Dalek Attack
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Adventure International
Scott Adams created Adventure International in the wake of the success of his text adventure games published by the TRS-80 Software Exchange (later The Software Exchange). It released all his classic adventures along with some new ones, plus a line of games by other designers, notably the "Other Venture" series. Amongst the later Text adventures was the Questprobe series, based on Marvel characters.
The company went out of business in 1985 following the general decline of text adventures in the market.
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Questprobe: Featuring Human Torch and the Thing
The Hulk
Sea dragon
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ADvertainment Software |
Quiver
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Aestan Games |
Multiplex
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A-J Games |
A-J's Quest
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Al J. Jiménez |
Pac-Gal
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Alan Farmer |
Willy the Worm Part II: The Big Trip Home
Rocket Rangers
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Alan Zimm |
Action Stations!
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Albert Savoia |
Bit-Bat
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Albino Frog Software, Inc.
Albino Frog Software, Inc. (formerly Night Sky) is a game development studio of which Sean M. Puckett is the sole employee. After using the name Night Sky, the company was officially established in Florida, USA in October 1993.
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Helious
Galacta: The Battle for Saturn
Helious II
Tom & Jerry
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Alexander Martin |
Airstrike
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Alexandr Gogava |
16
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Alien Production |
ALF: The First Adventure
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