Legend Entertainment Company

Legend Entertainment Company was a Northern Virginia-based developer started in 1989 by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu. Their early games were illustrated text adventures. In 1993, they broke from the text tradition with Companions of Xanth which was their first game to feature a point-and-click interface.

Leland Interactive Media

Originaly Cinematronics Inc. The company was renamed after one of Tradewest's co-founders Leland Cook.

Lerner Research

Merged with Blue Sky Productions in 1992 to form Looking Glass Technologies.

Level 9 Computing, Ltd.

Level 9 Computing Ltd was founded in 1981 in the United Kingdom by three brothers: Mike, Pete and Nick Austin. Its aim was to produce and publish high quality text adventures initially for the BBC computer, and later the company expanded to other 8-bit and 16-bit computers of that era. Mainly due to the decline in sales of text based adventures at the end of the 80s, Level 9 Computing had to close down in mid 1991. In the ten years in between it published over 20 main titles plus some licensed titles which have helped shape the adventure scene. Most of those releases were highly appreciated (and compared against those of Infocom). The theme of these adventures was initially set in fantasy and Middle Earth (which yielded the compilation: Jewels of Darkness), and later it published adventures with a Sci-Fi theme (Silicon Dreams trilogy). In the mid-80s it added relative rudimentary graphics to new and existing releases.

Lifetimes

Linel

A software developer and publisher based in Switzerland.

Lobo Software

Logotron Ltd

Lord Frodo, Harrell W. Stiles

Lord Frodo, Harrell W. Stiles

Loriciel SA

Loriciel was a French video game company, founded in 1983 by Marc Bayle and Laurent Weill.

M.C. Lothlorien Ltd

Macintosh

Mad Genius Software Ltd.

Magellan Consulting Neue Medien GmbH

Magic Lemon Software

Magic Lemon Software was the one-man development studio of Don Lemons. Next to The Infernal Tome, the studio is also responsible for the three Bandor games. In June 1993 a shareware / demo version of ShadowKeep 1- The Search was released, this was to be the first in a trilogy of shareware RPG games.

Magnetic Fields Ltd.

Best known for racing games, Shaun Southern and Andrew Morris started Mr Chip Software in 1982, initially working on the Commodore 64. They become Magnetic Fields some years later, and created the seminal Lotus and Super Cars lineages for Gremlin.

Magnetic Scrolls

Magnetic Scrolls was a British game developer founded in 1984 by Anita Sinclair, Ken Gordon and Hugh Steers and located in London, England. They mostly developed text adventure games, until the popularity of that genre began to fade and they were acquired by MicroProse in 1992. They collaborated with MicroProse in the development of The Legacy: Realm of Terror.

Maitai Entertainment

Makh-Shevet Ltd.

Makh-Shevet (מחשבת) was an Israeli PC games developer, publisher, localizer and distributor during the 90s. The company filed for bankruptcy in 1997.

Manic Media Productions Ltd.

Marathon Technology, Inc.

Marco Cat

Mark Currie

MarkSoft

Masayoshi Ueda

Mastertronic, Inc.

Mastertronic, Inc. was a branch of UK-based Mastertronic Ltd. It was started in 1986 by Martin Alper, one of the original co-founders of the main company, who relocated to the United States to actively manage this new division. The company published and distributed Mastertronic games to United States locations. Mastertronic, Inc. seems to have folded around 1989 during the take-over of its mother company by Virgin Games.