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Magic Canvas Entertainment |
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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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Magic Quest, Inc. |
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Magicode, Inc. |
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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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Magnetic Images
A developer and publisher whose biggest success was Lost Dutchman Mine is 1989.
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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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Mainstream America |
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Maitai Entertainment |
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Major Developments |
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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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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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Manic Media Productions Ltd. |
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Manley & Associates, Inc.
EA Seattle was a development studio originally established as Manley & Associates in 1992, and acquired and renamed by Electronic Arts in 1996. It was closed down in 2002.
A part of the engineering team left in the nineties to form and work at Lobotomy Software.
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Marathon Technology, Inc. |
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March Street Press |
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Marco Cat |
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Mark "Atomjack" Mackey |
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Mark Currie |
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Marko Teittinen |
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MarkSoft |
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Martin Burkhart |
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Masayoshi Ueda |
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Mass Media Games, Inc. |
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Master Designer Software, Inc.
Cinemaware Corporation was founded in 1985. The company was Robert Jacob's and Phyllis Jacob's software development house. Established in 1985, it existed for seven years before going under in 1991.
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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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Mateusz Viste |
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Matt Kaufman |
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Mauritius Software |
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MAVIS & PKTS |
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Max Design GesMBH |
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Maxis Software Inc.
Maxis Software Inc. is another company eventually acquired by Electronics Arts. It was originally established in 1987 and produced all the Sim- games. Like SimCity, SimFarm or SimIsle. The Sims series was already produced under the Electronic Arts.
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Maxwell Technology Ltd. |
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MDF |
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MDO
MDO was a division of Coktel Vision, responsible for most of the engineering as the graphics and designs came from the headquarters in Paris. The company was named after the 3 co-founders: Mathieu Marciacq (M), Arnaud Delrue (D) and Roland Oskian (O).
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MECC
MECC (the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium) started as a state agency. The software was given away to schools in Minnesota and elsewhere in the country. MECC was a publisher and distributor of high-quality educational software for children. In May 1996 MECC was acquired by SoftKey International Inc.
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Mecom Software |
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Med Systems Software
Med Systems was bought out by Screenplay in 1983, but they folded in 1984. Med Systems originally published some games for the TRS-80 Model I/III starting in 1981 (games programmed by Jyym Pearson), and then expanded to TRS-80 Coco games starting in 1982, all by Ken Kalish.
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Megadream Software |
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MegaSoft Entertainment, Inc. |
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Megavision Entertainment |
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Merit Software
Merit Studios, Inc. was originally an American public company based in Dallas, Texas.
Merit Studios (Europe) Limited, (formerly Zeppelin Games), was formed in 1994 and was allocated responsibility for the sales, marketing and distribution of Merit Inc.'s US games into the European marketplace as well as developing its own products.
In 1996, Merit Studios (Europe) Limited obtained both registered developer and publisher status for Sony PlayStation. At the end of 1996, the Directors of Merit Studios (Europe) completed a Management Buy Back of the European Subsidiary from Merit Studios, Inc. The company was renamed Eutechnyx Limited, with the Infogrames Group acquiring a minority shareholding in the company.
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Metropolis Digital, Inc.
Metro3D, Inc. was a North American developer and publisher based in San Jose, California. The company was founded in 1998. After having released several games for console and handheld systems, Metro3D went bankrupt in 2004.
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Michael A. Denio |
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Michael J. Roberts |
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Michael P. Miller, Margaret J. Ganzberger |
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Michael Taggart |
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Michael Zerbo |
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Michal Rygielski |
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Micro League |
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