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Stanley Design Team |
Megatron VGA | |
Starbyte Software
StarByte was a German company which developed and published many games, mostly strategy and simulation games and mostly for the PC and Amiga, although many of them were never translated into English. They are also famed for the platformer Rolling Ronny, the RPG Rings of Medusa, and simple action game Fly Harder, which was one of the last commercial Commodore 64 games from a significant company, although that version was never released internationally.
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Rings of Medusa, Rings of Medusa 2, Hannibal, Space M+A+X, Black Gold, Hollywood Pictures | |
Starsoft Development Laboratories, Inc.
Starsoft Development Laboratories was founded by Hal McCrey, a lead designer at Adventure International. StarSoft was well-known for budget-releasing classic games from defunct companies.
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Aliants: The Desperate Battle For Earth!, Stock Market: The Game, Psycho | |
Stefan Hendriks |
Arrakis | |
Steve 'AReyeP' W, MCS Amsterdam |
Spear Resurrection | |
Steve Green |
Captured by Pirates! | |
Steven Don |
3D Bomber | |
Steven Neighorn |
Haunted Mission Adventure | |
Stone & Associates |
My Letters, Numbers and Words | |
Stone Jackal Studios |
Crush Deluxe | |
Stonehenge Soft Art |
Stone Age | |
Stophylevie |
O-Pong | |
Stormfront Studios
Don Daglow founded Stormfront Studios in 1988 after he left Brøderbund Software, Inc.. They are known for such titles as the Tony La Russa's Baseball games, the Eagle Eye Mysteries games, the EA Sports NASCAR series among others.
On 31st March 2008, the employees were told the company was closing down, due to adverse business conditions.
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Eagle Eye Mysteries, Old Time Baseball | |
Stratagem |
Terran Envoy | |
Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI)
Founded in 1979, the company managed to produce over 100 titles mostly war strategy or tactical games. Some of the most famous are Panzer General and all the General series, Eye of The Beholder series, and many AD&D games like Pool of Radiance or Champions of Krynn.
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Eye of The Beholder 2, Eye of The Beholder 3, Eye of The Beholder, Panzer General, Cyclones, Fantasy General, Pacific General, Allied General, Pool of Radiance, Stronghold original, Al-Quadim, Buck Rogers - Countdown to Doomsday, Champions of Krynn, Dark Queen of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, Dark Sun - Shattered Lands, Gateway to The Savage Frontier, Curse of The Azure Bonds, Buck Rogers - Matrix Cubed, Secret of The Silver Blades, Steel Panthers, Treasures of The Savage Frontier, Steel Panthers 2 - Modern Battles, Steel Panthers 3 - Brigade Command, Clash of Steel: World War II, Fantasy General (CD-ROM), Phantasie 1 - Tholie's Tale, Pools of Darkness, Roadwar, B-24, Gary Grigsby´s War in Russia, Mech Brigade, Star Command, Medieval Lords: Soldier Kings of Europe, First Over Germany, Second Front: Germany Turns East | |
Strategic Studies Group Pty Ltd. |
Reach for the Stars: The Conquest of the Galaxy - Third Edition | |
Strategic Visions, Inc. |
Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space | |
Stratos, Asociacion de Desarrolladores |
Space Plumber | |
Studfarm Studios |
Assault Wing | |
subLOGIC
Known as "The Computer Flight People", subLOGIC (Sublogic Communications Corporation) was a small game company based in Champaign, Illinois. They are best known for the development of Microsoft's original Flight Simulator series in the 1980s, as well as their own flight simulators such as Jet in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
subLOGIC was bought by Sierra in 1995. The subLOGIC name is no longer used; related products are released under the Dynamix label also owned by Sierra.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator (v2.0), Microsoft Flight Simulator (v3.0) | |
Subway Software |
Micro League Wrestling 2, Batman Returns, Mayday Squad, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show | |
Sullivan Bluth Interactive Media, Inc.
Don Bluth and Morris Sullivan created games under this label that were ports of Don's coin-op laserdisc arcade games.
Has also been known as Sullivan Bluth Interactive Media Inc.
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Dragon's Lair: Escape from Singe's Castle, Dragon's Lair III: The Curse of Mordread | |
SumWare Software |
The Dungeons of Grimlor II | |
Sunburst Technology Corporation
Sunburst Technology Corporation began in 1972 under the name of Sunburst Communications Inc. in the state of New York. The company is best known for children's educational software, especially their Type to Learn series. The majority of the company's products were sold to schools. The success of Sunburst Communications Inc. became noticed by Boston publishing conglomerate Houghton Mifflin Company which acquired it in May 1999.
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Memory Castle | |
Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH |
Holiday Island | |
Sunrise Games Ltd. |
Mutant Penguins | |
Supernova Creations
Supernova Creations was a game development studio formed in 1991 by Trevor C. Sorensen, along with programmer Brett Keeton and artist/designer Richard Launius. It was the successor to Sorensen's Interstel Corporation that was shut down in 1992 following a hostile takeover bid that forced him to sell his shares.
The studio released its first game, Star Legions, in the same year. A Windows version of Star Fleet, called Star Fleet Deluxe, reached beta status in 2002, but went no further after the death of Brett Keeton that same year. Sorensen went on to pursue a career for NASA in the nineties and eventually made an academic career as a professor.
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Trevor Sorensen's Star Legions | |
Surprise! Productions |
Prototype | |
Susan Mahoney & Associates, Inc. |
Destination: Mars! | |
Sweatbox Animation |
Jungle Jack | |
SWFTE International Ltd. |
Bicycle Poker, Bicycle Bridge, Bicycle Cribbage, Bicycle Solitaire | |
Sydney Development Corp.
Sydney Development Corp., a division of Sydney Dataproducts Inc., was Canada's first publicly owned software company. It was formed in 1978 and belonged to Tarrnie Williams.
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Symtus |
The Dark Half | |
Synapse Software Corporation
Synapse Software was an American publisher and developer of computer games. The company was founded in 1981 by Ihor Wolosenko and Ken Grant. The company was bought by Broderbund in 1984.
Former Synapse programmer Cathryn Mataga is a part of Junglevision Software.
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Mindwheel, Alley Cat | |
System 3 Software, Ltd. |
Constructor, Last Ninja 2 - Back with a Vengeance, Last Ninja, The | |
Tachyon Studios Inc. |
Blood and Magic | |
TACTICAL Soft Inc. |
A.R.S.E.N.A.L Taste the Power | |
Tad Corporation |
Cabal | |
TAG
TAG is a label used by Anthony Taglione on games he was the lead developer on during the mid 90s.
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Hexx - Heresy of The Wizard, Alpha Storm | |
Taito Corporation
Taito was originally established in 1953 by Russian-Jewish businessman Michael Kogan in Tokyo as Taito Trading Company. The company started importing, leasing, and later developing amusement machines in the 1960s. The company's current name of Taito Corporation was adopted in 1972. Taito was among the first makers of electronic games, selling their own Pong clone in 1973.
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Operation Wolf, Volfied, Qix, Bubble Bobble, Taito's Super Space Invaders, Rastan | |
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is one of the largest publishing and distribution houses in North America and was originally founded in 1993 by Ryan Brant. The company has an extensive portfolio of games and IP, mostly through the acquisition of development studios. Its strongest asset is the wholly-owned Rockstar Games, Inc., which houses a large amount of development studios responsible for the acclaimed games in the Grand Theft Auto series. The company entered the European publishing and distribution business in 1997 through the acquisition of GameTek UK Ltd., which was renamed Take-Two Interactive Software Europe Ltd.
In 2002 the publishing label Gotham Games was launched. In 2004 the company established 2K Sports as a label for sports games, mostly a continuation of the 2K series by Visual Concepts Entertainment. One year later, in 2005, 2K Games was formed, the company's most important publishing label. In 2007 the casual games publishing label 2K Play was launched.
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Bureau 13, Millennia: Altered Destinies | |
Tamsoft Corporation |
Battle Arena Toshinden | |
Tanager Software Productions |
C.Y.P.H.E.R. Operation US Presidents | |
Target Games Limited |
Laser Squad | |
Teacy Entertainment |
Road Hog! | |
Team 17
Team17 was established in 1990. Their main success was a Worms series, the best selling game at the time, which received many awards and won many competitions.
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Worms, Alien Breed, Superfrog | |
Team Hoi |
Clockwiser | |
Technic Energy |
Assimilation | |
Tech-Noir |
OverKill - The Six Planet Mega Blast | |
Technos Japan Corp.
Technos Japan was established in December 1981 by Kunio Taki and a group of other former Data East staff. The company became well known in the late '80s for the Double Dragon and Nekketsu High School franchises.
The 16-bit era saw a decline in the popularity of these franchises, and with no big hits, the company was forced to close in early 1996. The rights to their back catalog have moved between several publishers, including Million and Atlus, but they are today owned by Arc System Works.
Several companies were formed by former Technos Japan staff, including Almanic (later Givro) in 1992 and Avit (later Avit-Niigata) in 1996.
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Double Dragon | |