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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.
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System Shock
Creative Contraptions
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Lore Design Limited
Lore Games Ltd. (from 1988 to 1992)
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Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods
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Loriciel SA
Loriciel was a French video game company, founded in 1983 by Marc Bayle and Laurent Weill.
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Bumpy's 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
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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.
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Star Wars: X-Wing
Star Wars: TIE Fighter
Star Wars: Rebel Assault
Star Wars: Rebel Assault II - The Hidden Empire
Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Collector's CD-ROM
Star Wars: X-Wing - Collector's CD-ROM
Star Wars: Dark Forces
PHM Pegasus
Strike Fleet
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M.C. Lothlorien Ltd |
Chuckie Egg
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Machination |
Framed
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Macintosh |
At the Carnival
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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
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Mad Genius Software Ltd. |
Gunmetal
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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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Flames of Freedom
Midwinter
Red Ghost
Ring Cycle
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Magellan Consulting Neue Medien GmbH |
Splitterwelten
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Magic Canvas Entertainment |
Guts 'n' Garters in DNA Danger
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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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The Infernal Tome
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Magic Quest, Inc. |
Time Treks
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Magicode, Inc. |
Ultimate Cards
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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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Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge
Supercars International
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Magnetic Images
A developer and publisher whose biggest success was Lost Dutchman Mine is 1989.
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Lost Dutchman Mine
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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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The Pawn
Jinxter
The Legacy: Realm of Terror
Myth
Corruption
The Guild of Thieves
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Mainstream America |
Barney Bear Goes to the Farm
Barney Bear Goes To School
Barney Bear Goes to Space
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Maitai Entertainment |
U.S.S. John Young
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Major Developments |
Total Eclipse
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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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Cruel World
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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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Segyun-jeon
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Manic Media Productions Ltd. |
SuperKarts
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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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DinoPark Tycoon
Home Alone
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Little People Main Street
Wolf
Lion
Are We There Yet?
An American Tail: The Computer Adventures of Fievel and His Friends
Hometown, U.S.A.
Little People Farm
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Marathon Technology, Inc. |
Digging for Buried Treasure
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March Street Press |
Berlin Wall
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Marco Cat |
Janji-Boy
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Mark "Atomjack" Mackey |
XQuest
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Mark Currie |
Chopper Commando
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Marko Teittinen |
Koolah
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MarkSoft |
Gandalf
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Martin Burkhart |
AXET
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Masayoshi Ueda |
Bap!!!
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Mass Media Games, Inc. |
3-D TableSports
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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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The King of Chicago
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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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Knight Games
Prowler
Trilogy
The Demon's Forge
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Mateusz Viste |
Hangman 2010
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Matt Kaufman |
African Desert Campaign
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Mauritius Software |
Batfish
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MAVIS & PKTS |
Self Control
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Max Design GesMBH |
1869
Burntime
Motor City
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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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SimCity 2000
Sim Farm
SimEarth: The Living Planet
SimAnt
SimCity Classic
SimLife
SimCity: Enhanced CD-ROM
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Maxwell Technology Ltd. |
Hotshot
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MDF |
Polanie
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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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Cougar Force
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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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The Oregon Trail
The Amazon Trail
The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary
Number Munchers
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Mecom Software |
The Second World
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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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Asylum II
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Megadream Software |
Arya Vaiv
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