SiliconWorx Software

SilverRock Productions

Danish software company that was prolific for its advertising tie-ins. After several years producing games to promote toothpaste or cereal, it got a big hit with the Hugo games used on TV and subsequently ported to many home platforms.

Simis Limited

Simis Limited was a development studio especially known for its flight simulator games. It was founded in 1989 by Jonathan Newth and Ian Baverstock and acquired by Eidos in 1995. In March 1998 there was a management buyout of the company which led to the formation of Kuju Entertainment. Kuju was originally an offshoot umbrella brand, that housed Simis as a flightsim brand. Later the company fully dissolved into Kuju.

Simsalabim Software

Simulmondo

Simulmondo was an Italian leading gaming company. They focused on multiple platforms like DOS, Amiga or Commodore C64 and released many mostly sports games. The company slowly stopped their production in later 1990s.

Six Pound Sledge Studios

Sleepless Knights

SNK Corporation

SNK (abbreviation of Shin Nihon Kikaku [新日本企画, "New Japan Project"]) is a hardware and software company based in Osaka, Japan. It is most known for its Neo Geo family of electronic game systems manufactured during the 1990's, as well as for arcade-style game series such as Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown, Metal Slug, The King of Fighters, and others.

Soft Enterprises GmbH

Softdisk France

Softek International Inc.

Softmax Co., Ltd.

Softmax is a Korean game developer and publisher. The main business field of the company can be divided into three areas: package games (console and PC games), online games and mobile games. Their package game business began with the War of Genesis series, followed by titles like Lychnis, Sky & Rica, Aimpoint, Panthalassa, Magna Carta. Magna Carta: Crimson Stigmata, in cooperation with Banpresto in Japan is the first PS2 RPG title in Korea.

Softry

Softry (소프트라이) was a South Korean software company. It was established in 1993 by Doo Jin, a former producer at Topia, initially as a publisher of foreign games, but soon started producing domestic games. Softry hosted the Sonnori team, which developed Astonishia Story (1994). It also entertained an educational facility known as Game School, which served as their internal development team; graduates were required to submit a finished product that would be then published by the company. On May 29th, 1998, Softry filed for bankruptcy, but the Game School continued to exist.

Softstar Entertainment Inc.

Softstar (Chinese: 大宇, Da Yu) is a computer game developer based in Taipei, Taiwan (China). It was founded on April 27th, 1988, by a group of three people, and incorporated ten years later. Eric Lee is the company's CEO. Softstar has gradually gained a reputation of the leading developer and publisher of Chinese (Taiwanese)-made role-playing games. Xuanyuan Jian (1990) was one of the first Chinese-made games in the genre. Utilizing Japanese gameplay mechanics, the game was set in old China, establishing the tradition of Chinese RPGs with historical settings. Xuanyuan Jian spawned many sequels and became the longest-running Chinese RPG series. In 1995, Softstar released Xianjian Qixia Zhuan, also known as The Legend of Sword and Fairy, which became one of the most popular Chinese games of all times, inspiring not only several sequels, but also a TV series. In the second half of the 2000's Softstar began to shift its focus on online games.

Software Creations

Software of Sweden

Software Sorcery

Software Studios

Software Studios was the development division of Electric Dreams.

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

Soleau Software, Inc.

Spaceport Malibu

Spaceport Malibu was the name of a short-lived team that developed Hard Nova (1990) under the leadership of Karl Buiter.

Spectrum Holobyte

Founded in 1982, the company grow in numbers. It employed over 300 people and generated vast number of games. The company acquired Microprose and SimTex and from 1996 they presented itself as Microprose.

Sphinx Software

Sports Interactive Limited

Sports Interactive Limited is a company based in the United Kingdom which develops sports management games. In addition to Football/Soccer, SI's stable of games includes management sims for other sports including Baseball and Hockey. The company was initially founded by Paul and Oliver Collyer in Islington, North London, United Kingdom, to create their own games. The founding year was 1994 although it did not become a "registered" company until 1995. Before establishing their own company, the brothers had programmed their first game European Championship, which became the first Championship Manager, inspired by Addictive Games' Football Manager. Even though Domark Ltd. published the game and changed the name, the Collyer brothers held the rights to the programming codes. Thus, the company was able to continue with the successful series and profit from it even after Eidos acquired the name when it acquired Domark. Under the Eidos banner, new Championship Manager games were released each year.

Stanley Associates