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Richard A. Olsen |
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Richard Nikula |
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Rick Lawsha |
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Rick Raddatz |
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Riedel Software Productions, Inc. |
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Riku Järvensivu |
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Ritual Entertainment
The development studio was founded as Hipnotic Software in August 1996 and it is based in Dallas, Texas (2006). One of the founders was Tom Mustaine. Their first title was Quake Mission Pack No 1: Scourge of Armagon (1997), the first official expansion pack to id Software's Quake. In June 1997 the name was changed to Ritual Entertainment and their most important title so far is SiN (1998), a first-person shooter based on the id Tech 2 engine and set in a modern environment. It was followed by the expansion Wages of Sin (1999) created together with 2015, Inc.
In 2000 two more games were released: the third-person platformer Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2 and the third game in the Blair Witch series: Blair Witch, Volume III: The Elly Kedward Tale. Their next game was Star Trek: Elite Force II (2003), a sequel to Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force by Raven Software Corporation.
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Riverhill Soft Inc.
Riverhill Soft was founded in 1982 in Fukuoka, Japan. The company produced games in various genres for different platforms, initially focusing on detective adventures such as J.B. Harold and Tōdō Ryūnosuke series.
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Robert Alan Koeneke, Jimmey Wayne Todd |
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Robert B. Easter |
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Robert Fiorini & Associates |
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Robin Gravel |
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Rockland Software Productions |
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Rockstar North Ltd.
Rockstar North, formerly known as DMA Design, was founded in 1988 by David Jones, Russell Kay, and Mike Dailly in Dundee, Scotland. The name DMA was taken from the Amiga programming manuals, where it stood for "Direct Memory Access". DMA Design was most known for developing Lemmings and early Grand Theft Auto games.
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Rodge Rock Software |
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Rogue Entertainment
All of their titles used id Software game engines and they also created two expansions for games in the Quake series. They developed Strife and American McGee's Alice. Eventually was disbanded, with most employees working at Nerve Software.
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Roland Ludlam |
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RollinSoft |
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Rome Software |
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Ron Mignery |
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Rowan Software Ltd.
Rowan Software was a software company located in the United Kingdom and founded in 1987. The studio specialized in flight simulators.
Rowan Software's last game was Battle of Britain (2001). The company was acquired by Empire Interactive Europe in December 2000.
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Rozner Labs Software Group |
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RPSoft |
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Ryan Gravlin |
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RYLO Software |
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S S G
Strategic Studies Group was primarily created to produce war strategy games as the title already suggests. Their focus was mostly on World War II but was not limited to it which shows for example very successful Warlords series.
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S&M Software |
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S. Larratt |
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SaadaSoft |
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Safari Software Ltd.
Safari Software Ltd. was formed in the late 1980s and was primarily the developer of fast-action games for Epic MegaGames, which bought them out in 1997.
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Sanctuary Software Studio, Inc. |
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Sandcastle |
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SAV Creation |
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Scenario Developments |
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Scetlander Ltd. |
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SCi Games Ltd. |
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Science Research Associates, Inc. |
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Scott Douglas |
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Screaming Duck Software |
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SDJ Enterprises, Inc.
A small outfit consisting of Steven D. Jones, a public domain programmer responsible for the old shareware game Dracula in London (and possibly several pieces of educational software as well).
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SE Software |
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SEGA
Sega has developed and produced many popular video games in a variety of genres, including renowned series such as House of the Dead, Jet Set Radio, Phantasy Star, Sakura Wars, Sonic the Hedgehog, Virtua Fighter, Wonder Boy, and many others.
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Seibu Kaihatsu Inc. |
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Semi Logic Entertainments, Inc. |
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Senile Team |
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Senori Box |
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Sensible Software
Founded in Chelmsford, Essex, UK in 1986 by Jon Hare and Chris Yates, two former school friends, Sensible Software was one of the most successful European development teams throughout the 8 Bit and 16-Bit eras, creating no less than seven #1 games in the UK in their 13 year history and scooping many industry awards in the process. Well regarded as eccentric mavericks, the team produced some strange and original games over the years. They later moved their offices to the Cambridgeshire town of March before settling in Saffron Walden, Essex in 1993.
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Sentient Software Ltd. |
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Shadow Software |
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Shamusoft Designs |
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