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Mute Fantasies |
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MVP Software
MVP Software was founded in 1985 as a hobby by Dave Snyder, the owner of the company. In the early years Dave wrote software for the Sanyo 550 series of computers and sold it directly to Sanyo users through magazine advertisements, reviews, and word of mouth. In 1987 MVP began publishing the work of others who had written software for the Sanyo.
By 1991 MVP was growing, and Dave began to work with the company full-time. It was also during that year that the company came to be recognized as a publisher of shareware games for the PC.
Since 1991 MVP has released many shareware games, and since 1992 it has developed many retail games. The company is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Mythos Games Ltd.
Mythos Games was a British video game developer company founded by Julian Gollop and Nick Gollop in 1988 as Target Games. It is best known for its 1994 strategy game UFO: Enemy Unknown (released in North America as X-Com: UFO Defense), which went on to become the first instalment in the later XCOM series. Following the closing of Mythos Games in 2001, the brothers founded Codo Technologies.
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Mythos Software, Inc. |
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MyysArt |
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Nachos Software |
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Namco Limited
Namco Limited - company name until April 2018
Namcot - Trade name used in the development of console titles. (from 1983 to 1994)
Nakamura Manufacturing - Original name (from 1955 to 1958)
Nakamura Amusement Machine Manufacturing Company - Full name before abbreviating (from 1958 to 1970)
Namco Ltd is a Japanese corporation best known as a video game developer and publisher. Its headquarters are located in Ōta, Tokyo.
The company was founded by Masaya Nakamura as Nakamura Manufacturing in 1955. The company started out by running children's rides on the roof of a department store in Yokohama. Nakamura Manufacturing was reorganized in 1958 and underwent a slight name change to Nakamura Manufacturing Co., which would later be used to form the acronym Namco.
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Napalm Soft |
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Narcogames |
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Naughty Dog, Inc.
Naughty Dog was founded in 1984 by the then-sixteen-year-old Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin. In their own words, they "needed money to buy video games and stuff", so they "worked hard, and that's the whole story".
The company started as JAM software The first game it sold was Ski Crazed for Apple II. Jam Software also created Dream Zone (1988), a graphic adventure that was one of the first ones to support the PC's VGA graphics standard. Both of these early games were published by Baudville.
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NecroBones |
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Nelson Chu |
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Neo Software Produktions GmbH
Rockstar Vienna was founded as neo Software Produktions GmbH on January 4, 1993, in Hirtenberg, Austria, by Niki Laber, Hannes Seifert, and Peter Baustädter. They developed games in various genres for different computer platforms, among those the Whale's Voyage series, as well as related products as for example computer animated advertisements and TV spots.
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Neural Storm Entertainment |
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Neurosport |
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Neurotech Software |
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New Era Software |
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New Generation Software
New Generation Software was a German game development studio founded by Carsten Wieland and Carsten Korte, two developers who previously worked at Starbyte. The company developed a number of DOS/Windows titles between 1995 and 1999, including Chewy: Esc from F5 (1995), Clif Danger (1996), Chartbuster (1998) and Dark Secrets of Africa (1999). It also published a number of Amiga titles in Germany, including the two Trapped games.
In 1998 the team tried its hand at erotic games and created two titles under the team name Interactive Strip, and after those, all activities were turned towards the development and publishing of erotic software under the new name Redfire Software.
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New World Computing
The company founded in 1984 was a developer and publisher of primarily RPG and strategy games for PCs and consoles. In 1996 they were acquired by 3DO.
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New-Deal Productions S.A. |
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Nexa Corporation
Nexa Corporation was a software development company in San Francisco, California, started by Gilman Louie in 1982.
The company was merged with Spectrum Holobyte in 1987 to form the new company Sphere, Inc. but continued to operate under the Nexa name until at least 1989.
Nexa's biggest hit was the flight simulator F16 Fighting Falcon.
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NGS Software |
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Niche Software |
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Nighthawk Computing |
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Nihon Falcom Corp.
Nihon Falcom (日本ファルコム) is a Japanese game developer based in Tachikawa, Tokyo. The company was founded in March 1981 by Masayuki Katō, who remained its chairman during subsequent years. Falcom initially focused on producing games for Japanese home computers (later PC Windows), though many of their most popular titles were ported to various console systems as well. In 2001 Falcom was incorporated.
Falcom was one of the pioneers of the action RPG genre, to which most of their best-known games belong. With their Dragon Slayer, Xanadu, and Ys series of action RPGs the company has established itself as one of the most influential developers in the genre. One of the key features in many of their games (particularly early titles) was "bumping" combat, which made action-based battles possible without the use of a separate "action" key or button.
They were also the fist company to apply vocals to game music, the first to have their own band consisting of professional musicians (the Falcom Sound Team JDK), and the first to produce separately available game music CDs.
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Nikita Ltd.
Nikita Ltd. (from 1991 to 2007)
Никита Russian spelling (from 1991 to 2007)
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Ninano Software |
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Nine Dragons Software |
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Nintendo R&D1
Founded in 1970, Research and Development 1 was the oldest development team of Nintendo. It was initially headed by Gunpei Yokoi. The team developed, among others, notable console games, including key Metroid and Donkey Kong installments. In 1989 they release the GameBoy handheld and afterwards continued to work on many games developed for that system. R&D1 also created the Wario spin-off franchise.
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Nirvana Systems |
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Noah Morgan |
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Noch Software Inc. |
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NoriaWorks Entertainment |
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Norland Software |
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Northwest Software |
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Northwest Synergistic Software
Northwest Synergistic Software was a US game development and publishing company founded in 1978 in Seattle as Synergistic Software by Robert C. Clardy and Ann Dickens Clardy. In the IBM PC DOS era the company became known for its porting work.
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NoSense |
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NovaLogic, Inc.
Founded in 1985, by CEO John A. Garcia, NovaLogic Inc. is a developer and global publisher of computer games for the PC, PlayStation® and PlayStation® 2 game consoles, NINTENDO GAMECUBE and Xbox video game system.
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Novell |
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Novotrade Software Kft.
Appaloosa Interactive Corporation was a Hungarian game development studio founded by András Császár and Stephen J. Friedman. It was established in 1983 as Novotrade Software Kft. by 4 banks and 93 enterprises as a way to get hold of foreign currency, of which the supply was always low in the eastern bloc. The company also made computer programs and TV commercials. An office in California (USA) was also opened in 1983, possibly with the name Novotrade International LLC. When Hungary became a republic in October 1989 after shaking off the communist regime, the operations in Hungary and the USA were joined with the establishment of Novotrade International, Inc. In addition the name was changed to Appaloosa Interactive Corporation on 4th November 1996.
In the nineties the company was especially known for creating games for SEGA consoles, most notably in the Ecco the Dolphin series.
The company was closed in 2006.
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Nowhere Software |
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NTIX Soft
Taff System (from Feb, 1990 to Mar, 2004) -- Former company name
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Ocean Software Ltd.
Known as Bandai Namco Entertainment UK Ltd.
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OctagonSoft Inc. |
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Odysseus Software |
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Off The Wall Productions |
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Oleg Demin |
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Omega Integral Systems |
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Omegavision |
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Omnitrend Software, Inc.
Omnitrend Software, Inc. was founded by Thomas R. Carbone in 1979 and is a privately held business software company that branched out into computer game development during the 1980s. The company developed the three-game Universe series, Paladin, the Breach games, and two Rules of Engagement games.
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