Konami Industry Co. Ltd.

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.

Kron Simulation Software

Kurt W. 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.

Lasse Öörni

Lawrence Productions, Inc.

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.

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 Systems

Lindensoft

Load'N'Go Software

Lobotomy Studios

Looking Glass Technologies, Inc.

Looking Glass Studios, Inc. (formerly Blue Sky Productions and LookingGlass Technologies, Inc.) was an American video game developer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was founded by Paul Neurath with Ned Lerner as Blue Sky Productions in 1990, and merged with Lerner's Lerner Research in 1992 to become LookingGlass Technologies. Between 1997 and 1999, the company was part of Intermetrics and was renamed Looking Glass Studios. Following financial issues at Looking Glass, the studio shut down in May 2000.

Lore Design Limited

Lore Games Ltd. (from 1988 to 1992)

Lucasfilm Games

LucasArts was established to produce StarWars gender games under LucasFilm. As an exclusive StarWars license holders they produced all the StarWars games including X-Wing and TIE Fighter series. Apart from StarWars gender, they created games like Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion series.

Machination

Macrocom, Inc.

Macrocom created ICON: Quest for the Ring (1984), one of the earlier examples of an action role-playing game, as well as its follow-up The Seven Spirits of Ra (1987). The company was notable for using a tweaked text mode that allowed for seemingly 320x200x16-color graphics on any CGA card.

Maelstrom Games Ltd

Maelstrom Games was the publishing company and label created by Mike Singleton in about 1988 when he found it impossible to find another publisher for Dark Spectre.

Magic Canvas Entertainment

Magic Quest, Inc.

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.