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Vectordean Ltd. |
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Vektor Grafix Ltd
As the name implies, this UK team concentrated mostly on games using mathematical methods of drawing screen displays. It was founded in June 1987 by former musician Andy Craven and Danny Gallagher.
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Velocity Inc. |
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Viacom New Media |
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Viagem Interactive |
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Viccom |
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Vid Kidz |
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Villa Crespo Software, Inc.
In 1990, Villa Crespo Software was formed by Dan Sejzer in Highland Park, IL named after the town in which he born in Argentina. Dan was a BASIC programmer who wrote two text games “Dr. Thorp’s Blackjack” and “Real Poker” which sold around 50,000 copies each. The distribution pipeline and finances from his friend and new partner, Skip Wood brought Villa Crespo Software into the limelight of computer game publishing. Dan Sejzer is a gambling industry expert at blackjack, poker, craps and roulette.
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Vince Bly |
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Vintage Software |
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Viper Games |
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Virgin Interactive Entertainment
Richard Branson expanded his Virgin business into computer games in the early 80s, initially concentrating on the ZX Spectrum. Within a few years they had an impressive roster of licenses, such as many Taito arcade games and UK publishing of Synergistic titles.
The company bought out Mastertronic in 1989, briefly using the name for reissues and Virgin Mastertronic for full-price titles.
In 1993 they became Virgin Interactive Entertainment, before eventually working with Electronic Arts. Ultimately they were bought by Titus as a subsidiary and the name Virgin Interactive Entertainment was used until April 2003.
The name was changed to Avalon Interactive in May 2003 and it was responsible for the European distribution of the group's games.
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Virtual Adventures Inc.
Virtual Adventures is an independent game development company based near Montreal in Canada and was established in 1994. Virtual Adventures is a familiar name for those who have played
MS-DOS/Windows95 video games in 90's. It has successfully developed two classic video games: "Start Quest I in the 27th century" and "Stellar Mercenaries" and is currently working on the development of "Star Quest 2: United Galaxies" which is a sequel to Star Quest I in the 27th century. Visit www.virtuadv.com for more information.
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Vision Software |
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Visionaires |
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Visionary Media, Inc. |
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Visiware |
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Visual Concepts Entertainment, Inc.
A developer of sports games founded in 1988 and based in California. Visual Concepts was bought by SEGA for US$ 10 million to develop exclusive sports games for their Dreamcast console, after Electronic Arts declined to support the platform with their popular EA Sports franchise (for which Visual Concepts had developed games before). These titles were released under the SEGA Sports label. In 2005, several years after support for the Dreamcast ended, the studio was sold to Take-Two Interactive, where it went on to form the core of 2K Sports.
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Vivid Image |
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Vladimír Chvátal |
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Vladimir Chvatil, Radim Krivanek |
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Volume 11 Software |
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Vorco Technologies |
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Wade L. Corby |
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Wah-Software |
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Walt Disney Computer Software, Inc.
Walt Disney Computer Software, Inc. was established in 1988 as a subsidiary of Walt Disney Consumer Products, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Headed by Shelley Miles, it became the first Walt Disney entity to focus exclusively on the internal development and publishing of computer and video games. The operation was shut down in 1996 and reorganized as Disney Interactive.
The company was an early pioneer in the video gaming industry, porting many games from arcade to home console systems, and developing its own games as well. Two of Sculptured Software's first in-house games were Ninja and Street Surfer.
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Warped Minds |
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Wave Software Ltd. |
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Webfoot Technologies, Inc. |
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WelCom Systems |
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Wendell Hicken |
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Wesson International
Wesson, located in Texas, USA , is also known as Adacel Systems, Inc.
The company is one of the world’s leading suppliers of professional air traffic control (ATC) simulators and games.
Professional training systems, ranging from desktop stations to very powerful supercomputer units, deliver virtual ATC environments with high-resolution, real-time graphics, 3D visualization capabilities, sound, and voice recognition technology.
The company creates software for design, Internet, and entertainment applications. It provides solutions in several industries, including government, military, universities, entertainment, communications, and education.
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Westwood Studio
Westwood Studios had a successful start with some very popular strategy games like Dune 2 or Command & Conquer and became very successful and known. The company continued to extend the ranks of their games with more titles until it was eventually acquired by Electronic Arts who continue to improve the most popular games series.
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White Magic |
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WICAT Systems, Inc. |
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Wierenga Software |
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Wiering Software |
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Will Vinton Productions |
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William D. Pinehart |
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William Soleau |
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Williams Entertainment Inc.
Founded in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, Williams Manufacturing Company was a pinball machine manufacturer. The proprietor was Harry Williams who was responsible for developing automatic scoring, kicker-bumpers, and the "tilt" mechanism. Williams became one of the giants in the pinball machine industry during the "Golden Age" of pinball (1960's through the 1980's). Its main competitors were the big names in the industry of the time - Bally, Gottlieb, and Midway.
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Windmill Software
Windmill Software was a game development company that developed games for the IBM PC in the early 80's. Windmill games were programmed with a strong underlying knowledge of the hardware, and many of them showed that knowledge with enhanced colors or sound, for example their unique use of the 160x100 16 colour mode on CGA graphics, or their early pulse with modulation of the PC speaker.
Windmill published nine games between 1982 and 1984, Styx being their last one. Almost all of their games were inspired by hits of the times, such as Styx is based on QIX and The Exterminator resembles Centipede with some twists. At least two of their games have had modern remakes, Digger and Styx.
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Winged Yak Productions |
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Wizard games |
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Wizard Software
Still around just not doing as much. Outer Ridge was from 1995.
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WJS Design
Also Known As
Smithson Computing (from 1982 to 1989)
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Workman Publishing |
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World Domination Productions |
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World Software |
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Worwyk Software |
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