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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.
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Eric the Unready, Shannara, Death Gate, Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers get all the Girls, Callahans crosstime saloon, Gateway 2 Homeworld, Spellcasting 201 - The Sorcerers Appliance, Mission Critical, Superhero - League of Hoboken, Spellcasting 301 - Spring Break, Gateway - Frederik Pohls | |
Leisuresoft |
Scrooge | |
Leland Interactive Media
Originaly Cinematronics Inc. The company was renamed after one of Tradewest's co-founders Leland Cook.
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Ivan Iron Man Stewarts - Super Off Road | |
Leon Baradat |
Manor | |
Lerner Research
Merged with Blue Sky Productions in 1992 to form Looking Glass Technologies.
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Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator, Car and Driver | |
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.
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Lancelot, Scapeghost, Champion of The Raj, Gnome Ranger, Billy The Kid, Time and Magik: The Trilogy | |
Level Systems |
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | |
Lifetimes |
Future Dimension | |
Lindensoft |
Alex Higgins' World Snooker | |
Linel
A software developer and publisher based in Switzerland.
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Traders - The Intergalactic Trading Game, The Neverending Story II: The Arcade Game, The Game of Life | |
Load'N'Go Software |
Fantastic Four | |
Lobo Software |
Oil Barons | |
Lobotomy Studios |
Powerslave | |
Logotron Ltd |
Stargoose Warrior | |
Looking Glass Software, Inc. |
Creative Contraptions | |
Lord Frodo, Harrell W. Stiles
Lord Frodo, Harrell W. Stiles
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MinerVGA | |
Lore Design Limited
Lore Games Ltd. (from 1988 to 1992)
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Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods | |
Loriciel SA
Loriciel was a French video game company, founded in 1983 by Marc Bayle and Laurent Weill.
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Bumpys Arcade Fantasy, Quadrel, Tennis Cup, Baby Jo in Going Home, Sherman M4, Bob Winner, Cobra, Guardians, Space Racer, West Phaser, Disc, Skweek, Tennis Cup 2, Top Secret | |
LucasArts
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.
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X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Star Wars: Rebel Assault, Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2, TIE Fighter Collector's Edition, X-Wing Collector's Edition, Star Wars: Dark Forces, PHM Pegasus, Strike Fleet | |
M.C. Lothlorien Ltd |
Chuckie Egg | |
Machination |
Framed | |
Macintosh |
At the Carnival | |
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.
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The Seven Spirits of Ra | |
Mad Genius Software Ltd. |
Gunmetal | |
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.
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Midwinter II: Flames of Freedom, Midwinter, Red Ghost, Ring Cycle | |
Magellan Consulting Neue Medien GmbH |
Splitterwelten | |
Magic Canvas Entertainment |
Guts 'n' Garters in DNA Danger | |
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.
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The Infernal Tome | |
Magic Quest, Inc. |
Time Treks | |
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.
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Lotus 3, Supercars International | |
Magnetic Images
A developer and publisher whose biggest success was Lost Dutchman Mine is 1989.
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Lost Dutchman Mine | |
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.
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Pawn, Jinxter, Legacy - Realm of Terror, The, Myth, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves | |
Mainstream America |
Barney Bear goes to the Farm, Barney Bear Goes To School, Barney Bear Goes to Space | |
Maitai Entertainment |
Battle Stations | |
Major Developments |
Total Eclipse | |
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.
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Cruel World | |
Makkoya Entertainment Co., Ltd.
Makkoya (막고야) was a South Korean software house founded in January 1992 and entitled after an ancient mythical name for Korea. Its president was Hong Donghee. They developed games in various genres for the PC, including the board game Segyun-jeon (1992), the first Korean-made game with VGA graphics, and its sequels. In 2004 they switched to online games, but none of them went beyond beta status.
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Segyun-jeon | |
Manic Media Productions Ltd. |
SuperKarts | |
Manley & Associates, Inc.
Founded in 1992 and acquired by Electronic Arts in 1996.
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Dinopark Tycoon, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Hometown, U.S.A., Little People Farm | |
Marathon Technology, Inc. |
Digging for Buried Treasure | |
March Street Press |
Berlin Wall | |
Marco Cat |
Janji Boy | |
Mark "Atomjack" Mackey |
XQuest | |
Mark Currie |
Chopper Commando | |
Marko Teittinen |
Koolah | |
MarkSoft |
Gandalf | |
Martin Burkhart |
AXET | |
Masayoshi Ueda |
Bap!!! | |
Mass Media Games, Inc. |
3-D TableSports | |
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.
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Knight Games, Prowler, Trilogy, The Demon's Forge | |
