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Assembly Line, The

British company famous for unique action/puzzle games such as Vaxine, The Assembly Line was also famous for excellent programming that was technically much more competent than most of its contemporaries. Its games were always very smooth, eminently playable, and pushes the capabilities of yesterday's computers to their limits. Although better known in the Commodore 64 and later Amiga circle, many of their games have also been ported to the PC and achieved modest success. Most of their games were published by US Gold. Developers include Andy Beveridge, Adrian Stephens, Martin Day, John Dale.
Helter Skelter

AssistWare

Ballons & Rainbows 5.0

Astral Software

Horror Zombies From The Crypt, Archipelagos

Astros Productions

Retribution

Atari Europe S.A.S.U.

Atari Europe S.A.S.U. is a majority owned subsidiary of the holding company Infogrames Entertainment SA with worldwide headquarters in Lyon, France. The company was founded in June 1983 as Infogrames by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet and was primarily known as a game developer during the late 1980's and 1990's. Their best-known games include the initial Alone in the Dark trilogy, as well as various games based on Franco-Belgian comics. Together with the US headquarters Atari, Inc. (formerly Infogrames, Inc.) in New York, the European division is a global publisher and distributor of games for all major consoles and also computers, with many development studios under its wings. The company also has offices in France, United Kingdom, Benelux, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Canada, Brazil, India, China, Australia, Japan.
Hostage Rescue Mission, Eternam, International Tennis Open, Armorik the Viking: The Eight Conquests, Mystical, Continuum, Advantage Tennis, Bob Morane: Jungle 1, Bob Morane: Science Fiction 1, The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun, Spirou, Astérix: Caesar's Challenge

Atari, Inc.

Syzygy (the suffix is unknown as the company was never formally incorporated; sources vary between Syzygy Engineering and Syzygy Company) was founded in 1971 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Their sole project was Computer Space before the company was incorporated as Atari, Inc. in 1972 (California).
1000 MIGLIA, Gremlins, 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe, Battlezone, Tempest 2000

Atod AB

The company was established as Atod Design KB in 1987 and incorporated as Atod AB in 1992 by Christoffer Nilsson and Thomas Liljetoft. In 2002 the company merged with Warthog Plc and became Warthog Sweden. This lasted until 2004 when the company was renamed Gizmondo Studios Helsingborg to focus on development for the Gizmondo hand-held. Eventually, in May 2006, the company was acquired by Eidos Interactive Ltd. (part of the SCi group) and renamed once more, now to Eidos Studios, Sweden AB. In 2008 Eidos restructured and closed the Swedish studio, who continued on their own, using their old name Atod AB.
Troddlers

Atomic Games, Inc.

Located in Houston, Texas, Atomic Games is a privately held corporation. The company was founded in 1989 by Keith Zabalaoui, Ed Rains and Larry Merkel. The initial idea was to bring their passion, wargaming board games, to computers, and their first title was V for Victory: D-Day Utah Beach (1991). They did three more games in the V for Victory series for Three‑Sixty Pacific, Inc., and some similar games for Avalon Hill (e.g. World at War: Stalingrad) and Mattel. The real breakthrough came in 1996 when they teamed up with Microsoft for Close Combat. The game was a huge success and spawned many sequels. However, the company closed its doors in December 2000, until it was picked up by Destineer Studios in May 2005. They are currently working on Close Combat: Red Phoenix. The company is considered one of the pioneers in electronic historical wargaming.
V for Victory

Attention to Detail Limited

Attention to Detail Limited was a software development company that developed leisure titles, business software, designed electronics for the arcade, and created many development tools. It was started in the front room of a house in September 1988 by 5 graduates from Birmingham University, Chris Gibbs, Fred Gill, Martin Green, Jon Steele and Jim Torjussen, and at its peak the company employed 75 people and occupied 12,000 sq. ft of converted barns in rural Warwickshire (UK).
Rollcage, Blast Chamber, The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga, Night Shift

Attic Entertainment Software GmbH

Attic was a German software developer founded in 1989 and closed in 2001. Attic was founded by Hans-Jürgen Brändle, Jochen Hamma and Guido Henkel in the German town of Albstadt. All were equal partners in terms of ownership over the company.
Realms of Arkania, Realms of Arkania 2, Spirit of Adventure

Audio Visual Magic Ltd.

Hunt for Red October

Audiogenic Software Ltd.

Based at: PO Box 4004, Stansted, Essex CM24 8JZ, United Kingdom. Audiogenic has produced games in a variety of genres, although with sports games often their main focus. Most of their games have been self-published and self-developed.
Krustys Fun House, European Champions, Loopz, Blockbuster, Allan Border's Cricket

Autumn Moon Entertainment, LLC

Autumn Moon Entertainment is a US game development studio founded in 2002 by Mike Kirchoff, initially with a single programmer and later with many ex-LucasArts employees on the team, especially artists.

Avalon Hill

Developed numerous strategy and role-playing games of many types. From 1998 owned by Hasbro Interactive's Microprose division.
Advanced Civilization, Third Reich

AVopenH

AVopenH is a small games manufacturer based in Krakow. The Company was established in 1994 as a supplement to its first game, entitled "Digital Warriors". In the same year the company managed to teamed up with the oldest Polish game publisher - xLand. The result of the cooperation was to issue at the beginning of 1995 "Digital Warriors". xLand also issued a second AVopenH game "R-Activ '. The Game was a remake of" Pongo ". "R-Activ" got a thrashing (if anyone even bothered to write anything about it) and the authors sank into the ground. In the meantime xLand ceased to exist.
Buddyros

AweSoft, Inc.

Miramar, Jet Fighter Simulator

Azeroth, Inc.

Inspector Gadget - Global Terror

Bally Data Systems, Inc.

Midway Mfg. Co. was incorporated in 1969 when Midway Manufacturing Co. was acquired by Bally Manufacturing Corporation. Midway continued their business as manufacturer of electro-mechanical arcade machines, but starting in 1973 their main business became videogame arcade games. The Midway team designed a video game console and simple computer which was released under the Bally name in 1978 - the Bally Professional Arcade (eventually renamed Bally Computer System and then Bally Astrocade). Using a custom video display chip, this 8-bit console had 4k of RAM, a keyboard, and used cassette-sized cartridges known as Videocades. Users could also do minimal programming with the BASIC program included. About 45 games were released for this console.
Ms.Pac-Man

Bally Sente Inc.

Also Known As Sente Technologies (from 1983 to 1984-05) Videa, Inc. (from 1982 to 1983) Bally Sente was originally a development company called Videa, Inc. founded by Howard Delman, Roger Hector and Ed Rotberg in 1981. The company later became the video game division of Pizza Time Theater after an offer by Atari's President Nolan Bushnell and they renamed it Sente.
Stocker

Bally Technologies Inc.

Bally is a well known arcade manufacturer of coin-operated arcade machines and pinball machines. They started to develop its own games first on their own console and lately on most popular consoles and PCs.
Hat Trick, Rampage, Tapper