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id Software, Inc.
ID software is considered a founder of FPS games. They started with Wolfenstein series followed by Doom series and Quake series. They remained active to current days with many successful titles.
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Idea Software |
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Ideas From the Deep |
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iEntertainment Network, Inc.
Interactive Magic was founded in 1994 by MicroProse co-founder "Wild" Bill Stealey. The company was taken public in 1998, and had its name changed to iEntertainment Network in 1999. It is based in Cary, a suburb of Raleigh, North Carolina.
The company focused on Military Simulations initially and then bought two Internet companies, MPG Net (casual online games) and in 1997 Interactive Creations Inc. (known for WarBirds, an online WW2 combat flight game). Other games in their portfolio include war games such as North vs. South and their The Great Battles series.
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Iguana Entertainment, Inc.
Iguana was purchased by Acclaim and turned into Acclaim Studios Austin and Acclaim Studios Teesside.
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Ikarion Software GmbH
In 1993 Kingsoft's owner Fritz Schäfer started a new company for PC and Amiga systems called Ikarion Software GmbH. Throughout the first years the company focussed on business simulations, later they started to develop strategy games and Gameboy Advance Puzzle Games.
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Illymani Designs |
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Image Works
Image Works was a Mirrorsoft publishing label.
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Images Software Ltd.
Images Software Ltd. was a game development studio established circa 1988 by Karl Jeffrey. It is known for classic titles as Back to the Future Part II, Bubsy II, and The Hunt for Red October, as well as ports of many games.
The studio initially developed for Activision, with ports of Wonder Boy in Monster Land for instance, but later they also worked for Ocean and US Gold (e.g. porting G-Loc Air Battle). Initially focusing on Amiga, Atari ST and ZX Spectrum, Images later moved on to the Game Boy, NES and SNES. The company has close ties to The Climax Group, also founded by Karl Jeffery, and may be linked to Images' desire to publish its own games.
After 1994 no new products appeared, and most likely the company was continued as The Climax Group.
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Imagexcel |
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Imagic
Mostly a console cartridge developer for early 1980s console systems, Imagic occasionally branched out into the computer market.
Followed Activision's lead as the second major independent game software developer, initially staffed with headhunted disgruntled Atari employees. Bill Grubb, Bob Smith, Mark Bradley, Rob Fulop, and Denis Koble had all worked for Atari. The company was the second third-party publisher to make games for the Atari 2600.
The staff also included Jim Goldberger, Dave Durran and Brian Dougherty from Mattel and Gary Kato from Versatec.
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Imagineering Inc.
Imagineering Inc. appears to be an internal development studio of Absolute Entertainment, Inc.
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ImagiSoft, Inc. |
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Imagitec Design Inc. |
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Immortality Production |
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Impressions
Impression Software was founded in 1989. The company focused on strategy and business games including sport simulations. It was acquired by Sierra On-Line in 1995.
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Impulse Games, Inc. |
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Incentive Software Ltd. |
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Incredible Simulations, Inc. |
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Incredible Technologies, Inc.
Incredible Technologies is a US studio founded in July 1985 by Elaine Hodgson and Richard Ditton who previously worked at Action Graphics, Inc., a studio spun off from Bally Midway Manufacturing Co., Inc.. The company initially specialized in designing and manufacturing commercial/arcade entertainment development and they are best known for the Golden Tee Golf arcade series.
Incredible Technologies developed Grave Yardage for Activision. in 1989. The staff's biographies in that game's manual show the range of design and development IT has done: arcade game design and Bally/Midway and Capcom; development of original games and/or conversion for Cinemaware, Epyx, Mindscape; pinball machine development for Data East; system design for Brunswick's BowlerVision system.
While still creating games, the company also started releasing casino games and machines in 2008.
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InFluid Software |
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Infocom, Inc.
Developer and publisher of interactive fiction games in the early 1980s. They were acquired by Activision in 1987.
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Infogrames Entertainment
Infogrames Entertainment was French company producing interactive games for PC and consoles. The company was founded in 1983 and eventually owned Atari, Inc. and Atari Europe.
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Infogrames Europe SA
Atari SA (formerly Infogrames Entertainment SA (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃fɔɡʁam])), also known as Atari Group, is a French holding company headquartered in Paris that owns mainly video gaming-related interactive entertainment properties. Atari SA's core subsidiaries include the publisher and marketer Atari, Inc., developers Nightdive Studios and Digital Eclipse, and publisher Infogrames. It also has a blockchain division, Atari X, and additionally owns the websites MobyGames and AtariAge. Through these divisions, the company owns the rights to many video game properties that originated from Accolade, Atari, Inc., Atari Corporation, GT Interactive, Ocean Software, M Network via Intellivision and others. It is the sole owner of the Atari brand since 2001, through its subsidiary Atari Interactive Inc. which licenses the brand to other entities in the group.
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Infogrames Multimedia SA
Atari Europe S.A.S.U. is a majority owned subsidiary of the holding company Infogrames Entertainment SA with worldwide headquarters in Lyon, France. The company was founded in June 1983 as Infogrames by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet and was primarily known as a game developer during the late 1980's and 1990's. Their best-known games include the initial Alone in the Dark trilogy, as well as various games based on Franco-Belgian comics.
Together with the US headquarters Atari, Inc. (formerly Infogrames, Inc.) in New York, the European division is a global publisher and distributor of games for all major consoles and also computers, with many development studios under its wings. The company also has offices in France, United Kingdom, Benelux, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Canada, Brazil, India, China, Australia, Japan.
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Information Access Technologies, Inc.
Developed Three-Sixty games in the early 1990s.
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Ingenuity Works, Inc. |
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Inland International |
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Inner Circle Creations |
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InSide Team |
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Intel Corporation |
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IntelliCreations, Inc. |
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Intelligent Design Ltd. |
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Intelligent Games Ltd
Intelligent Games, Ltd. (IG) was a game development company founded in 1988 as The Intelligent Games Co. by Matthew Stibbe when he was 18 years of age. The name was changed to Intelligent Games, Ltd. in 1993 when it was incorporated. The company was located in west London, United Kingdom.
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Interactive Binary Illusions |
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Interactive Fantastic Fiction |
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Interactive Picture Systems Inc. |
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InterActive Vision A/S |
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Intergalactic Development Inc. |
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International PC Owners
IPCO was a user group for IBM PC owners, operating out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and later Poland, Ohio, USA. The founders were two engineers and their wives, Jim and Cindy Cookinham and Steve and Windy Hart.
The group's selection of software - which covered business, science, graphics, education, utilities and games - was put together from user contributions. For an annual membership due ($15 within the US, $20 for Canada and $45 worldwide, as of 1982), IPCO members were eligible to participate in the group's software exchange: submit a program to the IPCO catalog, and receive a diskette with 4 free programs of your choice. The catalog included 80 programs as of early 1983, and over 175 by July that same year; by mid-1984 the count had grown to over 300 programs (selling for $3 per program or $6 per disk), plus 20 compilation disks ($15 each).
Other productions included the bimonthly "IPCO Info" newsletter, with information on PC hardware/software (including the emerging shareware/public domain arena), reader requests, tips, comments, and even gossip culled from BBS messages.
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International Software Development Corp. |
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Interplay Productions, Inc.
The company was founded by Brian Fargo in 1983. Stationed in Southern California, the company created marvelous titles like Fallout or Baldur's Gate. Even over the former success, the company eventually went bankrupt in 2004 and sold most of their intellectual property to other companies like Bethesda.
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InterQuest Productions |
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Interstel Corporation
Interstel Corporation was a company originally established as Cygnus by Trevor C. Sorensen. He had made a game for DEC computers called Starfleet in 1981 and the company was created to market Star Fleet I: The War Begins, an adaptation for home computers. Together with his partners the company was incorporated in 1986 to form Interstel Corporation and from then on the name Cygnus was no longer used. In the same year Interstel Corporation became an affiliated label of Electronic Arts.
In 1988 one of Interstel's games, Empire: Wargame of the Century, was named as Computer Game of the Year by Computer Gaming World magazine. Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander was released in 1989. A hostile takeover bid forced Sorensen to sell his shares and leave Interstel in 1990, and the company ceased operation in 1992. Before that, many titles were released, developed in-house or by external teams.
Sorensen's worked continued at Supernova Creations, a studio he co-founded in 1991.
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IntraCorp, Inc.
A parent company of Capstone Software.
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IQ Games |
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Iron Byte |
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Ishi Press International |
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Island Dream - Games & Soft |
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J & J Gameware |
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