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United Software GmbH
Ariolasoft GmbH (from 1983 to 1990)
Ariolasoft was a German computer game publisher and distributor. Besides releasing games for home computers, they were also notable for being the distributor for the Sega Master System in Germany between 1987 and 1988.
Ariolasoft was also the publisher for Electronic Arts and Brøderbund in Europe before those companies set up their own European offices. Some of the better received original games released by the company were Deactivators, Golf Construction Set, Out of This World, Starfox (no relation to the Nintendo franchise of the same name) and They Stole a Million.
The company also had a division in the United Kingdom: Ariolasoft UK.
The company was renamed United Software GmbH in the middle of 1990; it had started as the software subsidiary of Ariola Records, a German record label belonging to BMG. In 1993 United Software was taken over by Microprose Germany.
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Hanse
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Unknown |
RaceMan
Vampyr: Talisman of Invocation
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Uptime Disk Monthly |
Dangerous Dave
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Uranium Software
Uranium Software is the name under which developer Victor H. Olvera released shareware games. The first 'game of quality' game he released was Pako, a 1994 DOS Pac-Mac clone.
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Pako
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Uzdream
Uzdream was founded in January 1994 as Sailon Soft by a team that split off Mirinae, including its founder Yang Jaeyeong. The company changed its name to Uzdream in March 2002.
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Captain Kang
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Vadim Bashurov |
Country of Fools
Pole Chudes: Capital Show
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Vadim Kadyrov |
Pole
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Vectordean Ltd. |
James Pond 2
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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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Shuttle
Air Duel: 80 Years of Dogfighting
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Velocity Inc. |
Spectre VR
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Viacom New Media |
MTV: Club Dead
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Viagem Interactive |
Gambys
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Viccom |
Geuk Cho Ho Kwon
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Vid Kidz |
Robotron: 2084
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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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Combination Lock
Amarillo Slim 7 Card Stud
Space Vegetables
Stanford Wong Video Poker
Hearts
Dr. Wong's Jacks+ Video Poker
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Vince Bly |
Bricks
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Vintage Software |
Fruit Salad
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Viper Games |
Jackal
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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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Cool spot
Aladdin
Scrabble - Deluxe Edition
Jimmy Whites - Whirlwind Snooker
M.C. Kids
Sport of Kings
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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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Star Quest I in the 27th century
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Vision Software |
ALF: World of Words
ALF's Thinking Skills
ALF's U.S. Geography
Seek and Destroy
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Visionaires |
Gnome Alone
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Visionary Media, Inc. |
Nerf Arena Blast
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Visiware |
Prost Grand Prix 1998
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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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Star Trek - 25th Anniversary
Dominus
We're Back!: A Dinosaur's Story
Designasaurus II
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Vivid Image |
First Samurai
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Vladimír Chvátal |
Cervii
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Vladimir Chvatil, Radim Krivanek |
Gamebox
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Volume 11 Software |
Starball
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Vorco Technologies |
Tamper
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Wade L. Corby |
Battle Fleet
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Wah-Software |
Alien Phobia
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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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Mickey's 123: The Big Surprise Party
Mickey's ABC's: A Day at the Fair
Mickey's Jigsaw Puzzles
Mickey's Memory Challenge
Mickey's Runaway Zoo
Mickey's Space Adventure
Mickey's Colors And Shapes
The Chase on Tom Sawyer's Island
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Warped Minds |
Carnage
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Wave Software Ltd. |
Offensive
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Webfoot Technologies, Inc. |
H2O
Bluppo
Chain Reaction
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WelCom Systems |
Rockets
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Wendell Hicken |
Scorched Earth
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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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Moonbase
Tracon: Air Traffic Control Simulator
Tracon II
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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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Dune 2
Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon
Eye of The Beholder
Lion King
Command & Conquer
Super Dune 2
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Legend of Kyrandia 2
BattleTech - The Crescent Hawks Revenge
Legend of Kyrandia 3 - Malcolms Revenge
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Circuit's Edge
Goofy's Railway Express
Donald's Alphabet Chase
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White Magic |
Charly the Clown
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WICAT Systems, Inc. |
Touch Typing for Beginners
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Wierenga Software |
Bert's Dinosaurs
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Wiering Software |
Mario
Super Angelo
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Will Vinton Productions |
Avoid The Noid
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William D. Pinehart |
G-stones III
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William Soleau |
Tribolo
Battle For Atlantis
Rampcube
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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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Joust CGA
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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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Styx
The Exterminator
Digger
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Winged Yak Productions |
Flynn Sprint
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