| Company name | Description | Games |
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International PC Owners
IPCO was a user group for IBM PC owners, operating out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and later Poland, Ohio, USA. The founders were two engineers and their wives, Jim and Cindy Cookinham and Steve and Windy Hart.
The group's selection of software - which covered business, science, graphics, education, utilities and games - was put together from user contributions. For an annual membership due ($15 within the US, $20 for Canada and $45 worldwide, as of 1982), IPCO members were eligible to participate in the group's software exchange: submit a program to the IPCO catalog, and receive a diskette with 4 free programs of your choice. The catalog included 80 programs as of early 1983, and over 175 by July that same year; by mid-1984 the count had grown to over 300 programs (selling for $3 per program or $6 per disk), plus 20 compilation disks ($15 each).
Other productions included the bimonthly "IPCO Info" newsletter, with information on PC hardware/software (including the emerging shareware/public domain arena), reader requests, tips, comments, and even gossip culled from BBS messages.
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Rubik's Cube, Slot, Memory 1983 | |
Interplay
The company was founded by Brian Fargo in 1983. Stationed in Southern California, the company created marvelous titles like Fallout or Baldur's Gate. Even over the former success, the company eventually went bankrupt in 2004 and sold most of their intellectual property to other companies like Bethesda.
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Battle Chess, Battle Chess 4000, Castles, Battle Chess - Windows, Dragon Wars, Neuromancer, Star Trek - Judgment Rites, Rags to Riches - The Financial Market Simulation, Lord of the Rings Vol I, Star Reach | |
Interstel Corporation
Interstel Corporation was a company originally established as Cygnus by Trevor C. Sorensen. He had made a game for DEC computers called Starfleet in 1981 and the company was created to market Star Fleet I: The War Begins, an adaptation for home computers. Together with his partners the company was incorporated in 1986 to form Interstel Corporation and from then on the name Cygnus was no longer used. In the same year Interstel Corporation became an affiliated label of Electronic Arts.
In 1988 one of Interstel's games, Empire: Wargame of the Century, was named as Computer Game of the Year by Computer Gaming World magazine. Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander was released in 1989. A hostile takeover bid forced Sorensen to sell his shares and leave Interstel in 1990, and the company ceased operation in 1992. Before that, many titles were released, developed in-house or by external teams.
Sorensen's worked continued at Supernova Creations, a studio he co-founded in 1991.
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Star Fleet II: Krellan Commander | |
IntraCorp, Inc.
A parent company of Capstone Software.
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Grandmaster Chess | |
Iron Byte |
Freddy Hardest in South Manhattan | |
Ishi Press International |
Go Simulator | |
J.Shramko |
3D Pitfall | |
Jagware Inc. |
Alien Fires: 2199 AD | |
Jaleco Ltd.
Jaleco Ltd., the parent company of Jaleco Entertainment, is a subsidiary of PCCW Limited, Hong Kong's dominant integrated communications company.
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Cisco Heat - All American Police Car Race | |
James A. Sausville |
Flagger | |
Jason Truong |
Turoid | |
Jeef Sember and Don Mattrick |
Evolve | |
Jeff Tunnell Productions
Jeff Tunnell Productions is a one-man casual/children's game developer founded by Jeff Tunnellin 1992. He was most notably the developer of the The Incredible Machine series. The last titles 3-D Ultra Pinball and The Incredible Machine 3.0 were released in 1995 before Dynamix took over later that year. Jeff Tunnell was also the founder of Dynamix at the time.
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Mega Math | |
Jeffrey Olson |
AlphaMan | |
John Schmitt |
Mustang | |
Johnathon Lexa |
Mean Mini Golf | |
Juha Kauppinen |
Assault Trooper | |
Juice Software Pty Ltd |
Milo the Fuel Run | |
Kalisto Entertainment SA
In 1990, Nicolas Gaume created an independent French video game development company under the name Atreid Concept SA. The company set up its own distribution label in 1992 called Kalisto.
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Nightmare Creatures | |
Kd Games |
Bug World | |
