Jeffrey Olson

Jeremy Lamar

JME Engineering

JME Engineering is the software development company of Joe Merten. The company was founded at June 1st in 1988 in Berlin, Germany. The subject is software development in the whole range of the business: Commercial, shareware, freeware and open source. Games, office applications, compiler development, scientific, technical and embedded software. Over a range of some operating systems (Windows, Linux, OS/2, DOS) and on some os-less systems. Using on a variety of programming languages like C/C++, Delphi, Pascal, Java, Assembler et cetera. The first released game of JME Engineering was BrainBreaker in Summer 1991, a simple DOS puzzle game. All developed games and some other software are provided as free downloads from the company's homepage.

John Blake

John Klein

John Trapolka Memorial Krew

Jon Ritman, Bernie Drummond

Juha Kauppinen

Julian Cochran

Kaiko

Karstadt AG

Karstadt is a German department store company. It was founded by Rudolph Karstadt as Tuch-, Manufactur- und Confectionsgeschäft Karstadt on May 14, 1881 in Wismar (Germany). The company converted into a public limited company (AG) in 1920. In 1999, the company merged with Quelle Schickedanz AG & Co. to form KarstadtQuelle AG.

KEF Technologies

Kevin A. Lee

Kevin Dorff

Keypunch Software, Inc.

Keypunch was one of the earliest shareware distributors, and occasionally redistributed commercial software as well. The company was based in Minnesota, USA.

Kingsoft

Another game company which was eventually acquired by Electronic Arts in 1995. The company was founded in 1983 in Germany and focused mostly on Commodore C64 games.

KOEI Co., Ltd.

KOEI Co., Ltd. was first established on July 25, 1978 at Imafuku-cho, Ashikaga City. For the next two years they commenced PC sales and development of special-order business software. KOEI maintains operations in Japan, the U.S., Canada, China, Korea and Taiwan. Their first major success was when they published Nobunaga's Ambition in March 1983, which in the following years won many national and international awards.

Konami Corporation

Konami Corporation was founded on March 21, 1969 in Osaka, Japan by Kagemasa Kozuki, who currently serves as Chief Executive Officer. It was initially a jukebox rental and repair service. In March 1973 the company was renamed Konami Industry Co. Ltd., and began manufacturing amusement machines. The company assumed its current name in 1991. Since then, it has grown into a large international corporation focused on a wide variety of entertainment and lifestyle technologies and products, from video games to fitness clubs, from toys to gaming machines.

Krome Studios Melbourne

The original company Melbourne House (Publishers) Ltd. was founded in 1977 by Alfred Milgrom and Naomi Besen. Starting as a general publishing company, it soon focused on home computers. In August 1980 Melbourne House published one of the first books ever for the personal computer market and started to distribute games created in the US.

Kurt Dekker

Kyung-Hee Electronics S&I

Lacral Software

French company in the late 1980's that produced one good arcade title; possibly others.

Lankhor

Lankhor was a French video games development studio based in the south west of Paris, close to Versailles. The company was founded in 1987 and was closed on 31st December 2001. It was established through the merger of two very small French studios: BJL Langlois by Jean-Luc Langlois and Kilkhor by Bruno Gourier. The studio initially developed for the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS platforms and later branched out to console and hand-held systems such as the Mega Drive, SNES and Game Gear. Around 1996 the studio was about to close down, but then Daniel Macré joined the studio. He had previously worked together with Lankhor to develop an adaptation of the Sinclair QL game Wroom! for other platforms. In 1997, Lankhor entered a partnership with Eidos Interactive and created F1 World Grand Prix (1999) for the PlayStation and Windows. After the cancellation of a contract with the Japanese publisher Video System Co., Ltd. in January 2001 for an FIA licensed F1 game on PC and Xbox, Lankhor closed its doors on 31st December 2001 as the economical situation provided no new opportunities to work on new titles in 2001. Val d'Isère Ski Park Manager (February 2002) was the company's last game. Some of the developers moved on to found Corélane. Daniel Macré left the games industry permanently. One of the unreleased games is Sukiya.

Lawrence Dickinson

Learning Company, The

The Learning Company was co-founded in 1980 as Advanced Learning Technology, in 1981 changed to The Learning Co., by Ann McCormick, Leslie Grimm and Frona Kahn and based in California. The first releases focused on teaching young children math, reading and science skills. The most lucrative properties the company developed were Super Solvers, Reader Rabbit and ClueFinders. The company joined the New York Stock Exchange in 1992. In December 1995 The Learning Co. was acquired by SoftKey International. In October 1996, SoftKey International changed its company name to The Learning Company, Inc. and relocated it to Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange with Ticker Symbol TLC, and the TLC initials were added to the company logo. The company also operated the subsidiary TLC Properties, Inc. from the same location.