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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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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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MicroMagic, Inc. |
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Micromania Software |
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MicroMosaics |
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Micro-partner Software GmbH |
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MicroProse Leeds
As the name implies, this UK team concentrated mostly on games using mathematical methods of drawing screen displays. It was founded in June 1987 by former musician Andy Craven and Danny Gallagher.
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MicroProse Ltd.
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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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 Manufacturing Company
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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Milestone s.r.l.
Milestone is an Italian development company founded in Milan in 1994 by Antonio Farina. Originally called Graffiti, the company name was changed to Milestone in 1996.
Under the name Graffiti the company developed three games: Super Loopz (1994), Iron Assault (1995) and Screamer (1995). Screamer started the company's exclusive focus on racing games, except for the 2003 licensed game show title L'eredità, The X Factor Sing (2005) and Australian Idol Sing (2005). The success of the Screamer arcade rally series made way for a partnership with Electronic Arts and it led to the development of three games in the EA Sports Superbike series released between 1999 and 2000.
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Millennium Interactive Ltd.
Formed from the roots of Logotron, the London-based Millennium were best known for the James Pond series, but released a range of games, particularly for Amiga and ST systems. Their titles were generally distributed by U.S. Gold. In 1997 the company was bought by Sony and became SCE Studio Cambridge.
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Mindcraft Software, Inc. |
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Mindscape, Inc.
Mindscape International Ltd. was the major European publishing and distribution arm of Mindscape, Inc. beginning in about 1986. Located in West Sussex, England, some games were also developed by this division. Its sister company was Mindscape International GmbH.
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MindSpan |
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MindStorm Software |
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Mindware Limited |
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Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd. |
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Mirinae Software Inc. |
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