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Jarrod Davis Software Company |
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Jason Truong |
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Jeef Sember and Don Mattrick |
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Jeff Kintz |
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Jeff Tunnell Productions
Jeff Tunnell Productions is a one-man casual/children's game developer founded by Jeff Tunnellin 1992. He was most notably the developer of the The Incredible Machine series. The last titles 3-D Ultra Pinball and The Incredible Machine 3.0 were released in 1995 before Dynamix took over later that year. Jeff Tunnell was also the founder of Dynamix at the time.
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Jeffrey Olson |
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Jens Willibald |
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Jeremy Lamar |
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Jim Scarlett |
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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.
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Joel Finch |
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John Blake |
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John C. Schultz |
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John Klein |
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John Schmitt |
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John Trapolka Memorial Krew |
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Johnathon Lexa |
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Jon Ritman, Bernie Drummond |
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JoWooD Computer Games |
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Juha Kauppinen |
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Juice Software Pty Ltd |
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Julian Cochran |
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Junkyard |
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Kaiko |
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Kalisto Entertainment SA
In 1990, Nicolas Gaume created an independent French video game development company under the name Atreid Concept SA. The company set up its own distribution label in 1992 called Kalisto.
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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.
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Kd Games |
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KEF Technologies |
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Kesmai Corporation
Founded in 1981 by John Taylor and Kelton Flinn, Kesmai Corporation was purchased in 1994 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Based in Charlottesville, VA, Kesmai was a world leader in multiplayer online games and the parent company of ARIES Online Games, Kesmai Studios and GameStorm.
The company developed, published, and distributed interactive gaming content to over 12 million paying subscribers of America Online, Prodigy, CompuServe, EarthLink Network, Delphi, and major websites throughout the Internet.
Popular Kesmai titles include Air Warrior, Online Casino, Harpoon Online, Legends of Kesmai, MultiPlayer BattleTech, Star Rangers Online, Stellar Emperor, CatchWord, Jack Nicklaus Online Tour and a collection of classic board and card games.
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Kevin A. Lee |
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Kevin Bales |
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Kevin Dorff |
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Kevin J. North |
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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.
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Kinetica Software |
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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.
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Knowledge Adventure, Inc.
Knowledge Adventure was co-founded in 1991 by Rick Gibson and brothers Bill and Larry Gross in California.
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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.
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Kogado Software Products
Kogado (工画堂) is a Japanese company based in Tokyo. It was founded in 1916 and specialized in design and printing. The company went into public trading in August 1960. Kogado has been developing video games since 1982. They are mostly known for their strategy games, such as the Schwarzschild series, as well as visual novels.
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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.
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Krisalis Software Ltd.
Krisalis Software was a UK game development studio. It was originally founded in 1987 as Teque Software Development Ltd. by Tony Kavanagh, Peter Harrap and Shaun Hollingworth. Some of the company's first original titles were Terramex, The Flintstones, and Thunderbirds. Teque also programmed conversions (ports) of arcade titles for other companies for 8 and 16 bit platforms.
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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.
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Kron Simulation Software |
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Kurt Dekker |
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Kurt W. Dekker |
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Kyung-Hee Electronics S&I |
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L.K. Avalon
Founded in 1989, L. K. Avalon (short for Laboratorium Kompterowe Avalon) was one of the leading Polish game companies at the times of the 8-bit platforms - at the peak of the Atari XL/XE generation especially. They published (and developed) a lot of notable games in almost all genres, including advanced releases such as the original A.D. 2044: Seksmisja, Klątwa (Curse) and Władcy Ciemności (Lords of Darkness) point-and-click adventure games.
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Lacral Software
French company in the late 1980's that produced one good arcade title; possibly others.
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Lance Haffner Games |
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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.
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