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Stefan Hendriks |
Arrakis
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Sterling Silver Software
The company was founded as Sterling Silver Software in 1988 by Dennis Koble and Lee Actor. The company was renamed Polygames in 1992.
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PGA Tour Golf
Don't Go Alone
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Steve 'AReyeP' W, MCS Amsterdam |
Spear Resurrection
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Steve Green |
Captured by Pirates!
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Steven Don |
3D Bomber
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Steven Neighorn |
Haunted Mission Adventure
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Stone & Associates |
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Stone Jackal Studios |
Crush Deluxe
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Stonehenge Soft Art |
Stone Age
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Stophylevie |
O-Pong
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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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Stronghold
Gateway to The Savage Frontier
Eagle Eye Mysteries
Old Time Baseball
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Stratagem |
Terran Envoy
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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 III: Assault on Myth Drannor
Panzer General
Cyclones
Fantasy General
Pacific General
Allied General
Pool of Radiance
Buck Rogers - Countdown to Doomsday
Champions of Krynn
Death Knights of Krynn
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
Curse of The Azure Bonds
Buck Rogers - Matrix Cubed
Secret of The Silver Blades
Steel Panthers
Treasures of the Savage Frontier
Steel Panthers II: Modern Battles
Steel Panthers III: Brigade Command - 1939-1999
Clash of Steel: World War II
Fantasy General (CD-ROM)
Phantasie
Pools of Darkness
Roadwar 2000
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
Operation Market Garden: Drive on Arnhem, September 1944
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Strategic Studies Group Pty Ltd.
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 II
Warlords
Warlords II Deluxe
Reach for the Skies
Halls of Montezuma
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Strategic Visions, Inc. |
Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space
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Stratos, Asociacion de Desarrolladores |
Space Plumber
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Studfarm Studios |
Assault Wing
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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)
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Subway Software |
MicroLeague Wrestling
Batman Returns
Mayday Squad
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
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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
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SumWare Software |
The Dungeons of Grimlor II
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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
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Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH |
Holiday Island
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Sunrise Games Ltd. |
Mutant Penguins
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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
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Surprise! Productions |
Prototype
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Susan Mahoney & Associates, Inc. |
Destination: Mars!
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Sweatbox Animation |
Jungledyret Hugo
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SWFTE International Ltd. |
Bicycle Poker
Bicycle Bridge
Bicycle Cribbage
Bicycle Solitaire
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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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Evolve
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Symtus |
The Dark Half
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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
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System 3 Software, Ltd. |
Constructor
Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance
The Last Ninja
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Tachyon Studios Inc. |
Blood & Magic
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TACTICAL Soft Inc. |
A.R.S.E.N.A.L Taste the Power
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Tad Corporation |
Cabal
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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
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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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Arkanoid: Revenge of DOH
Arkanoid
Operation Wolf
Volfied
Qix
Bubble Bobble
Taito's Super Space Invaders
Rastan
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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
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Tamsoft Corporation |
Battle Arena Toshinden
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Tanager Software Productions |
The Secret Codes of C.Y.P.H.E.R.: Operation U.S. Presidents
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Target Games Limited |
Laser Squad
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TDB SOFT |
Green Beret
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Teacy Entertainment |
Road Hog!
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Team Hoi |
Clockwiser: Time is Running Out...
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Team Shinobi
Team Shinobi (チームシノビ) was a team within SEGA R&D 1. The company name was branded by SEGA, referring to the members who worked on the arcade game Shinobi. They would later go on to develop other arcade games.
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Golden Axe
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Team17 Software Limited
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
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Technic Energy |
Assimilation
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Tech-Noir |
OverKill
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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
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