| Company name | Description | Games |
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Danny E.K. van der Kolk |
Island Conquest 2 | |
DareWare Inc. |
ABC-Talk | |
Data East Corporation
Data East Corporation was established in 1976 and produced lots of Arcade machines. In 1980s they also started to produce computer games. The company bankrupted in 2003.
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Burgertime, Joe and Mac: Caveman Ninja, RoboCop | |
Database Educational Software |
Fun School 2: For the Over-8s, Fun School 2: For the Under-6s, Fun School 4: for 7 to 11 year olds, Fun School 4: for the under 5s, Fun School 3: for 5 to 7 Year Olds | |
Datasoft, Inc.
Datasoft was founded by Pat Ketchum in 1980. This company was based out of Chatsworth, California. When the company first started, there were about 15 in-house programmers. Ketchum was in his late 20's at the time. Ketchum acquired as many trademark licenses as possible. As a result, they published many games from famous tv shows, cartoons and movies. They also ported some games from arcades and other computer systems (Mr. Do and Pooyan).
Sometime after 1987, Samuel L. Poole and Ted Hoffman were some sort of business execs at Datasoft when the company was beginning to fold. These two men bought the left over assets and the name Datasoft and renamed the company Intellicreations. One of Datasofts HUGE investors was Gilette...the razor company. For some reason they pulled out right before the company went under. During its lifetime, Datasoft published some games for the C-64, Tandy, Atari and Apple ][.
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Bruce Lee | |
Dave Gilbert |
The Postman Only Dies Once | |
Dave Sharpless |
Mario Brothers VGA | |
David Burns |
Conquest, Numbers & Logic I | |
David Fleming |
Airlift Rescue | |
David Kittinger |
Mychess | |
David Lee Peterson |
Scud Atak | |
David M. Alexander |
TrainBall | |
David R. Malmberg, Mark J. Welch |
Pork I: The Great Underground Sewer System | |
Davidson & Associates, Inc.
Davidson & Associates, Inc. was founded by Jan Davidson in 1982.
After acquiring Chaos Studios on February 18, 1994 and Funnybone Interactive in February 1995, the company was itself acquired by CUC International on February 21, 1996.
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New Math Blaster Plus!, Headline Harry and The Great Paper Race | |
Deadline
Deadline is the name used by a small group of developers in Finland. They developed the space shoot 'em up game Avenger and are known only by the aliases of Rooster, Mustang and Junkhead.
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Avenger | |
Defcom |
Tailchaser | |
Delphic Oracle Entertainment |
Super Bubble Mania | |
Delphine Software International
Delphine Software International developed computer and video games between 1988 and 2004.
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Flashback, Future Wars - Time Travellers, Cruise for a Corpse, 007: James Bond - The Stealth Affair | |
Delta 4 Interactive
Delta 4 as it was colloquially known started out in the bedroom of Fergus McNeill where he self published text adventures and advertised in the classified ads. He gathered around him like minded people that worked with him on the game that would bring the company into the spotlight, a parody of the contemporary ZX Spectrum adventure scene, Quest for the Holy Joystick. It was followed by more satirical spoofs, such as Bored of the Rings and The Boggit: Bored Too which further cemented their status in the UK text adventure scene. Their success resulted in them being contracted to release the first computer game based in the highly successful Discworld by Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic. The company released pure text adventure games, until the wane of the text adventure caused it to shift gears. Its name was changed to 'Delta 4 Interactive' with the focus to release interactive multimedia games.
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Town With No Name, Psycho Killer | |
Demonware Softwarehaus GmbH |
The Power | |
