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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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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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Metro3D, 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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Micro League |
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Micro Sports Inc
An early 90's designer of sports simulations, Micro Sports Inc. was located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Most of its products were distributed by IBM Corp.
In October 1996, the company was acquired by the publishing company Microleague Multimedia Inc. Micro Sports' President David Holt and all of the company's employees joined Microleague Multimedia after the acquisition.
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Microcomputer Games Inc. |
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MicroComputing Concepts |
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MicroDeal Ltd.
MicroDeal was one of the UK's earliest games publishers, starting out by supporting the UK's small Tandy user base, going on to become the main driving force in the Dragon 32 market (as the system shared the same processor and similar graphics circuitry, porting games from one to the other was relatively simple). It also supported Atari and Commodore platforms, and even the BBC. (The occasional PC release was, more often than not, a port of another platform's game.)
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Microforum Manufacturing Inc.
Microforum Manufacturing was founded in 1987 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were the first Canadian game publishers to focus on casual games exclusively to the Canadian market for DOS and Windows 3.0. In 1994, the company no longer publishes games and closed it's doors at that time.
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MicroGenesis |
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Microïds
Microïds is a French company founded in 1985 by Elliot Grassiano. Some of the best sellers in the company's large games library are primarily in the adventure genre: Amerzone, Syberia I and II, Still Life and Obscure.
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Microillusions
Computer game developer and publisher of the home computer era (late 1970s to early 1990s)
Was a strong supporter of the Commodore Amiga
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MicroLeague Multimedia, Inc.
Microleague was one of key developers of sports simulation games.
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MicroLink |
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Micromania Software |
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MicroMosaics |
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Micro-partner Software GmbH |
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Microprose
Microprose was founded in 1982 by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey. The company became well known very early with lots of interesting titles, where some of them became a legend. The company was acquired and dismantled in 2004.
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Microsmiths, Inc.
Created Mean 18 in 1986. They developed a couple projects for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and ported a few games.
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Microsoft Corporation |
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Microsoft Games Studio |
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Microtec |
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Microtime
Microtime Interactive is a specialist new media production company located in the U.K., offering advertisers, media owners and their agencies access to the highest calibre of new media content development in such areas as computer and video games, web sites, interactive T.V, educational software, and multimedia applications such as trade presentations and kiosks.
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Midas Interactive Entertainment |
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Midlothian Software |
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Midnight |
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Midnight Synergy
Interspace Software An older name for Midnight Synergy. Was used sometimes but not always. (from 1989 to 1994)
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Midway Games West, Inc.
Atari Games Corporation was a subsidiary of Time Warner Communications. It was founded in 1985 after Time Warner sold the console and computer divisions of Atari, Inc. (which continued operations as Atari Corporation). Atari Games Corporation kept Atari's arcade business.
Warner Communications sold off its controlling interest to Namco in 1985 (which were bought back by Atari employees in 1986). At this time, the company founded Tengen, Inc. to get foot into the console market.
Time Warner bought the controlling interest back in 1993 and made the company a subsidiary of Time Warner Interactive, Inc.. In 1996 it was sold to WMS Industries which made it a subsidiary or Midway Games, Inc. and renamed it to Midway Games West, Inc. in 1999.
It remained in the arcade business until 2001 and was closed in 2003. However, the entity was not dissolved until 2013 (and, along with the rest of Midway, became property of Warner Bros. Entertainment in 2009).
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Midway Games, Inc.
Midway Games, Inc. is a game development gompany that made the Mortal Kombat series, and a number of other great titles. Midway had a long and illustrious history, beginning with its founding over 50 years ago as the manufacturing of pinball machines under the name of Midway Manufacturing Co.
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MiG Outpost |
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Mike Singleton |
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Mikko Haanperä, Kaj Björklund, Olli Haanperä |
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