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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 |
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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 Electronics, Inc. |
Joust
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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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Styx
The Exterminator
Digger
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Winged Yak Productions |
Flynn Sprint
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Wizard games |
Chase
Rockstar!
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Wizard Software
Still around just not doing as much. Outer Ridge was from 1995.
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Outer Ridge
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WJS Design
Also Known As
Smithson Computing (from 1982 to 1989)
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Baal
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Workman Publishing |
Brain Quest 6th Grade Edition
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World Domination Productions |
Artman's Goplanes!
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World Software |
Franko: The Crazy Revenge
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Worwyk Software |
Blackstar: Agent of Justice
Mel Odius goes Six String Searchin'
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WSP-Software |
Time Hunters Pinball
Time Hunters
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X-ample Architectures |
Doofus
The Return of Medusa
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Xatrix Entertainment, Inc.
Xatrix was a North American development studio based in Los Angeles, California. The company was founded in 1994. They were mostly known for their Redneck Rampage and Cyberia series. Their last game was Kingpin: Life of Crime (1999). Shortly after its release, the company was disbanded and later re-structured as Gray Matter Interactive.
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Redneck Rampage: Possum Bayou
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xland Sp. z o.o.
Xland was a polish company based in Krakow founded in 1989 that produced games for personal computers. Head of the company was Marek Kubowicz, and the main developers Janusz Pelc and Maciej Miąsik. The most famous developed games is Robbo, Electro Body and Heartlight PC. All three games was released as freeware in 2006 as Epic Puzzle Pack compilation.
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Electroman
Heartlight
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XOR Corporation
XOR Corporation developed several sport games in 1980s like Basketball Challenge or NFL Challenge.
XOR Corporation was a Minnesota-based developer and publisher of sport simulation games that existed in the 1980s. Nothing has been heard from them since 1989, so it appears that they are no longer around.
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Basketball Challenge
Roboman
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X-tec |
Real Fighter
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Xtreme Games LLC
Xtreme Games LLC was founded in late 1995 by André LaMothe in San Jose, California (USA). The objective was "to create the next generation of value 2D/3D video games for the consumer market while at the same time to explore new and untapped markets in the commercial arena and internet distribution."
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Rex Blade: The Apocalypse
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Yahoo Software |
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Ybarra Productions, Inc. |
Alien Legacy
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Yedioth Ahronoth |
Super Trix
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Ying Yang Corp. |
Star Maker
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Yong Choi |
Amado
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Zac Soft |
Diamond Peter
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Zephyr Software |
Graviton II
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Ziff Davis Media
A media company with over 70 years of history, Ziff Davis was at one time the owner of websites 1UP.com, GameVideos.com, and FileFront, as well as gaming magazines EGM, GMR, and Computer Gaming Monthly. All of their gaming properties were either sold off or shut down during the 2000s and today the company deals exclusively in technology and computer application magazines.
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Maze
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Zig Zag Creations |
Awesome Earl in SkateRock
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Zigurat Software S.L.
We are a group of professional programmers and graphic artists with more than 15 years of experience in the art of designing video games. We enjoy creating games which provide the player with as much realism as possible, bringing the thrill and the feelings of sport activities to arcade machines.
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Autocrash
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Zonarware |
Aspetra
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Zoom, Inc. |
Genocide 2: Master of the Dark Communion
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Z-Ware |
Funny Face
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