| Company name | Description | Games |
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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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Murder Club | |
Robert Alan Koeneke, Jimmey Wayne Todd |
Moria | |
Robert B. Easter |
Micropede | |
Robert Fiorini & Associates |
Wayne's World | |
Robin Gravel |
Serguei's Destiny | |
Rockland Software Productions |
SIMSpace | |
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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Lemmings 2, Lemmings 3, Lemmings Holiday, GTA, Lemmings Chronicles, Lemmings, Menace, Blood Money, Hired Guns | |
Rodge Rock Software |
Rodge Rock In Retroactive | |
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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Strife | |
Roland Ludlam |
Hurdles | |
RollinSoft |
PolyMaze | |
Rome Software |
Annals of Rome | |
Ron Mignery |
Automon | |
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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Dawn Patrol, Reach for the Skies | |
Rozner Labs Software Group |
Beethoven's 2nd | |
RPSoft |
Space Station Escape | |
Ryan Gravlin |
Totally Smashed | |
RYLO Software |
Veritech: Variable Fighter Simulator | |
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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Warlords 2, Warlords, Warlords 2 Deluxe, Halls of Montezuma | |
S&M Software |
BipBop II | |
S. Larratt |
Alien Worlds | |
SaadaSoft |
Castle of the Winds 2, Castle of the Winds | |
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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Heroes 1/4: The Tantalizing Trio, Heroes: The Sanguine Seven | |
Sanctuary Software Studio, Inc. |
Backlash: A Turret Gunner Simulation | |
Sandcastle |
Immortal | |
SAV Creation |
Rollin | |
Scenario Developments |
Obitus | |
Scetlander Ltd. |
Henrietta's Book of Spells, Hooray for Henrietta | |
SCi Games Ltd. |
The Lawnmower Man, Star Trek Pinball | |
Science Research Associates, Inc. |
Arithmetic Games Set 1 | |
Scott Douglas |
3D Trek | |
Screaming Duck Software |
Glook | |
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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Dracula in London, Big Three | |
SE Software |
Black Knight: Marine Strike Fighter | |
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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Golden Axe, OutRun, Zaxxon, Alien Syndrome, Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Power Drift, Super Hang-On | |
Seibu Kaihatsu Inc. |
Raiden | |
Semi Logic Entertainments, Inc. |
Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars | |
Senile Team |
Beats of Rage | |
Senori Box |
Dokkaebi-ga Ganda | |
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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Sensible World, Mega Lo Mania, Wizball, Sensible Golf | |
Sentient Software Ltd. |
Artura | |
Shadow Software |
Hook | |
Shamusoft Designs |
Jumpman Lives! | |
ShareData, Inc. |
Starquake, Jeopardy! | |
Sher-Tek Software, Inc. |
Ocean Ranger | |
Sherwood Forest Software |
Rocket Fighter, High Seas Homicide, Dino Hunt | |
SiEn Art
SiEn Art (시엔아트) was a South Korean game developer and publisher. The company was founded in June 1993 as Sigmatec, and changed its name to SiEn in 1995. They mostly developed action games. Their best-known title is The adventure of Tipi (1995), which was released in the West. The company's president was Lee Chanwon. SiEn became defunct in 1998.
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Tipis Adventure | |
Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
Sierra Entertainment, Inc. also knows as Sierra Online was a major developer and publisher in 80s and 90s producing many known and popular titles like Space Quest or King's Quest . The company was originally established in 1979 in California and after two successful decades was acquired by Activision.
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The Incredible Machine, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, Man Hunter - New York, Man Hunter 2 - San Francisco, Lost Mind of Dr Brain, Castle of Dr Brain, Conquests of the Longbow - The Legend of Robin Hood, Freddy Pharkas - Frontier Pharmacist, Mixed Up Mother Goose 1991, Codename ICEMAN, EcoQuest 2 - Lost Secret of the Rainforest, EcoQuest - The Search for Cetus, Hoyle Official Book of Games Volume 1, Jones in the Fast Lane, Police Quest - In Pursuit of the Death Angel, Island of Dr. Brain, Laura Bow 2 - The Dagger of Amon-Ra, Hoyle Official Book of Games 2, Hoyle Official Book of Games 3, Laura Bow 1 - The Colonels Bequest, Sierra's 3-D Helicopter Simulator, Crazy Nick's Software Picks: Parlor Games with Laura Bow, Mine Shaft, Mixed Up Fairy Tales, BC's Quest for Tires, Crazy Nick's Software Picks: Robin Hood's Game of Skill and Chance, Crazy Nick's Software Picks: Roger Wilco's Spaced Out Game Pack, The Black Cauldron, Roberta Williams' King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown, Roberta Williams' Mixed-Up Mother Goose, Space Quest: The Lost Chapter, Oil's Well, Crossfire | |
Silent Software Incorporated
Prolific Publishing began life as Silent Software over fourteen years ago. The company was formed by Baron R. K. Von Wolfsheild to develop interactive software and push the boundaries of technology. During this period Silent Software very quickly became an important player on the Amiga, designing and developing such hits as Fire Power, Galactic Invasion, and Turbo, as well as developing the Epyx game Mindroll. For the Commodore 64, Silent Software produced the Movie-to-interactive classic title from 20th Century Fox and Activision, Die Hard.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit | |
Silicon Dreams Studio Ltd.
Silicon Dreams Studio Ltd is a computer game developer based in the Oxford area, United Kingdom.
It was established in March 1994 and has since grown to be one of the major game developers in the UK currently employing around
100 staff.
Silicon Dreams Studio has historically been a specialist in the development of sporting products and has been responsible for many successful products including Fever Pitch, Olympic Games, Chill and the critically acclaimed World League Soccer brand of football games.
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Olympic Soccer, Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996 | |