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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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Sensible World of Soccer '96/'97
Mega Lo Mania
Wizball
Sensible Golf
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Sentient Software Ltd. |
Artura
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Shadow Software |
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Shamusoft Designs |
Jumpman Lives!
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ShareData, Inc. |
Starquake
Jeopardy!
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Sher-Tek Software, Inc. |
Ocean Ranger
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Sherwood Forest Software |
Rocket Fighter
High Seas Homicide
Dino Hunt
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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
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Sierra On-Line, 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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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
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
Code-Name: Iceman
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
The Island of Dr. Brain
The Dagger of Amon Ra
Hoyle: Official Book of Games - Volume 2: Solitaire
Hoyle: Official Book of Games - Volume 3
The Colonel's 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
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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
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Silicon & Synapse, Inc.
Blizzard Entertainment established in 1994 became very soon a known established company. The company did not focus on many titles but every release was a masterpiece immediately attracting a lot of attention and players. The company remained successful to the current days further developing on original Warcraft or Diablo series.
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The Lost Vikings
Warcraft
Blackthorne
Norse by Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings
WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness
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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
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Silicon Knights, Inc.
Silicon Knights, Inc. was founded in 1992 in Ontario, Canada, by Denis Dyack. In 1998, they were signed by Nintendo as a second-party developer.
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Blood Omen - Legacy Of Kain
Cyber Empires
Dark Legions
Fantasy Empires
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SiliconWorx Software |
İstanbul Efsaneleri: Lale Savaşçıları
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Silmarils
Silmarils was founded in October 1987 by two French brothers, Louis-Marie and Andre Rocques.
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Operation: Cleanstreets
Colorado
Metal Mutant
Arctic Baron
Boston Bomb Club
Targhan
Storm Master
StarBlade
Windsurf Willy
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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.
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Guldkorn Expressen
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Simbiosis Interactive SARL |
Fable
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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.
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MiG-29 Fulcrum
MiG-29M Super Fulcrum
Super-VGA Harrier
AV-8B Harrier Assault
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SimoneSystems |
Battleship 1991
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Simsalabim Software |
Frac
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SimTex, Inc.
SimTex was established in 1988 by Steve Barcia and went on to create their two most popular and well known series Master of Magic and Master of Orion 1 and 2 but unfortunately closed in 1997
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Master of Orion
Master of Magic
1830: Railroads & Robber Barons
Star Lords
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Simulmondo s.r.l.
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.
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3D World Boxing
1000 MIGLIA
Dylan Dog: The Looking Glass
Simul Man V
Big Game Fishing
Basket Playoff
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Sir-Tech
Sir-Tech Software, Inc. was a United States-based video game developer and publisher founded by Robert Woodhead and Norman Sirotek. While the original company closed its doors in 2001, its Canadian counterpart Sir-Tech Canada continued to operate up until late 2003.
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Freakin' Funky Fuzzballs
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Six Pound Sledge Studios |
Vinyl Goddess from Mars
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Skitso Productions
Skitso Productions is a Finnish development company of small, arcade and action games for PC. It was founded in 1995 as a sole proprietorship in Turku, Finland.
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Mine Bombers
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Sleepless Knights |
Special Forces
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Smash 16 |
Dizzy Dice
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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.
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Guerrilla War
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Soft Action
Soft Action (소프트액션) was a South Korean video game developer. The company was founded on November 1st, 1990, by Nam Sangkyu. They developed games primarily for the PC, most notably the Fox Ranger series. Early 2000's saw a shift to games aimed at children, and in 2003 Soft Action switched to mobile games before becoming defunct in an unspecified year late in the decade.
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Fox Ranger
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Soft Enterprises GmbH |
The Hidden Below
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Softbook |
Star lord
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Softdisk France |
Tracassin
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Softdisk Publishing
Softdisk was a publisher of "disk magazines" -- magazines distributed on disk, with programs, interviews, advertisements, etc. They were very popular from the 1980s until the mid 1990s, when the World Wide Web explosion changed the computer into a true consumer device. The programs were sometimes helpful utilities, but were mostly games you could play. Softdisk acted as a game publisher, and paid authors for their work.
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Dark Designs I: Grelminar's Staff
Street Ball
Battlestar
Big Blue Disk #16
Big Blue Disk #22
Big Blue Disk #25
Big Blue Disk #26
Big Blue Disk #27
Big Blue Disk #29
Big Blue Disk #35
Big Blue Disk #46
Big Blue Disk #48
Big Blue Disk #50
Big Blue Disk #52
Big Blue Disk #51
Galactic Battle
The Lost Crown of Queen Anne
Vor Terra
Handy Caps
Dino-Sorcerer
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Softek International Inc. |
Diamond Dash
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Softie, Inc. |
Carl Lewis' Go for the Gold
Classic Concentration
Card Sharks
The Flintstones: Dino: Lost in Bedrock
The Jetsons in By George, in Trouble Again
Win, Lose or Draw Junior
Win, Lose or Draw
Harlem Globetrotters
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SoftLab Laboratories
SoftLab Laboratories was founded in 1988 by pioneer adventure game developer William R. Fisher III. Bill Fisher developed and released his first independent, shareware game, Last Half of Darkness, for MS-DOS in 1989.
SoftLab released several other games in the early 1990s including The Nine Lives of Secret Agent Kat, an RPG/adventure with an espionage plot.
The company was called William R. Fisher III Studios in 1994 when the game The Romantic Blue was commercially released on CD-ROM (published by CrystalVision Software). Also released that year was the shareware game Death by Dark Shadows.
In 2000, an updated version of Last Half of Darkness was released for Windows on CD-ROM, developed and published by WRF Studios.
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Last Half of Darkness
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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.
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Sky & Rica
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Softouch Productions |
Atomix
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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.
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Cheonha Mujeok
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SoftServ, Inc.
SoftServ Inc. was a Washington State corporation in the 1980's and was best known for developing the simulation games Inside Trader and Corporate Raider. SoftServ was wholly owned by Bruce Kolpack and Brad Canady.
Previous developments by SoftServ included the Server Series of home management software for the Commodore 64 and the IBM PC. SoftServ software was distributed nationwide in K-Mart and Sears stores, and later through a relationship with Cosmi Corp.
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Inside Trader: The Authentic Stock Trading Game
Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall St.
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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.
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Mirage Thunder
Prince of Evil
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Software 2000
Software 2000 was a German game publisher and developer that became one of the biggest German game companies in the 1990s.
Software 2000 was founded 1987 in Eutin (a small town in Schleswig-Holstein) by brothers Andreas and Marc Wardenga. They produced and published games for Amiga, Atari ST, PC and later on for Gameboy Color and the Playstation.
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Ocean Trader
F1 Manager
Cubulus
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Software Creations |
General Trivia
Sports Trivia
Around the World Trivia
Hawaii State Trivia
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Software Diversions, Inc.
Moraffware was formed in the mid 1980's by Steve Moraff. The company quickly became known for its well-made Mahjongg and jigzaw puzzle shareware and freeware games. In addition to puzzle games, the company also developed and published arcade, action and role-playing games.
Moraff's Revenge was the company's first 3D dungeon game for the PC. Moraff's PinBall was the first computer game created by Moraffware for IBM's introduction of VGA resolution.
The company began developing games for Windows in the 1990s. The company distributed games under the names Moraff Games and MoraffWare, as trademarked labels. Many of the company's freeware and shareware games were distributed through larger channels like AOL, Yahoo! and CNet.
In June 2004 the company name was changed to Software Diversions, Inc.
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Moraff's Blast I
Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven
Moraff's Entrap
Moraff's Escapade
Moraff's Monster Bridge
Moraff's Monster Memory
Moraff's Morejongg
Moraff's Pinball
Moraff's Revenge
Moraff's Stones
Moraff's Tempt-Tris
Moraff's World
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Software of Sweden |
Bubble Pop
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Software Pirates, INC. |
Montezuma's Revenge
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Software Resources International |
Ishidō: The Way of Stones
Heaven & Earth
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Software Sorcery |
Jutland
AEGIS: Guardian of the Fleet
Sea Rogue
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Software Storm, Inc. |
Breakfree
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Software Studios
Software Studios was the development division of Electric Dreams.
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Millennium: Return to Earth
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