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Cedar Lake Software |
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Celeris Inc.
Celeris, Inc. was founded in 1987 by Stephen Chaplin in Chatworth, California. Chaplin, an experienced developer of anti-submarine warfare and graphic displays, first targeted the defense and aerospace industries for the company's products. Gaming software came next, and an entertainment division was formed. The company also developed several graphics engines and tools to incorporate into their games.
The company's first game was FlixMix (1993), but it became better known for its Virtual Pool franchise.
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Celestial Games |
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Celestial Software |
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Cerebral Gaming Systems |
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Chad Goulding |
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ChamProgramming Corporation
CHAMProgramming was a small US company founded in 1992 by John W. Champeau, who also did most of the programming. In 1996 John was approached by Dan Van Buskirk to work together as partners on the first release of Champ Kong. Dan Van Buskirk brought improved graphics and collaboration on the creation of the CHAMP Mode. The team worked well together and the games were an immediate hit with Coin-op fans everywhere.
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Cheesy Software |
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ChildWare Corporation |
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Chip |
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Chivalry Software, Inc. |
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Chris Crawford |
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Chris Gray Enterprises Inc. |
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Chris Pirih
A Free form skiing game, with Slalom, Free Style, and Tree Slalom pistes to ski down. Originally made for free by Chris Pirih in 1991.
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Chris Sawyer Productions
This company legally represents Chris Sawyer, the creator of such games as Transport Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon, both as a developer (until 2004, with brief returns for mobile ports) and a licensor of the two franchises to MicroProse/Infogrames/Atari (via Marjacq Limited representation).
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Christopher Crawford
Christopher Crawford (born June 1, 1950) is a computer game designer and writer. He designed and programmed several important computer games in the 1980s, including Eastern Front (1941) and Balance of Power. Among developers he became known for his passionate advocacy of game design as an art form, founding both The Journal of Computer Game Design and co-founding the Computer Game Developers Conference (now called the Game Developers Conference).
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Christopher G. Gunn |
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Cineplay Interactive, Inc.
Formed by former Cinemaware employees and Will Vinton Studios (the people responsible for the California Raisins claymation animations). First title, Free D.C!, did so poorly that no subsequent titles were produced.
Last known address: 2580 NW Upshur, Portland, OR 97210
A blurb about the company was written by Kellyn Beck, the founder, and included in the packaging:
The Cineplay line is a brand new genre of interactive movies from the Oscar-winning film studio that invented Claymation, the California Raisins and now, Harry the Subhuman, working together with the creators of the award-winning computer games Defender of the Crown, King of Chicago, Rocket Ranger and Centurion. The world-famous Claymation team at Will Vinton Productions has joined our talented game design team to bring you a series of cinematic adventures featuring live actors and Claymation characters who actually talk.
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Cirrus Software |
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Cistar |
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Climax London
The company was founded as Syrox Developments, Ltd. in 1992 in London (UK) by Dominic Wood. Syrox developed a range licensed games, initially on handheld platforms, then later on various consoles.
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Clipper Software |
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Clockwork Games Limited |
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Clockwork Software |
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Clove Software |
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Cobra Soft |
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Cocktail |
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Code To Go |
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Codemasters
The old and famous British software company was founded in 1986 by Richard Darling, David Darling and Jim Darling. They became famous for the Dizzy or Micromachines series.
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Cody Snider |
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Cognetics Corporation
Was founded in 1983.
Cognetics commercialised The Interactive Encyclopedia System, as HyperTIES. HyperTIES was a forerunner of the World Wide Web, and one of the first commercial hypertext systems.
Cognetics developed the 1986 text adventure game Amnesia for the PC, Apple II and Commodore 64.[3]
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CoGS: Digital Amusements
Mankind is destined to become of slave to its mechanical creations. Worship the computers now to gain salvation when the day of digital reconing arrives. The sacrement consists of playing our games.
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Coktel Vision
Coktel Vision is a French game developer founded in 1985 and located in Paris. The company created adventure, action and educational games. The company was acquired by Sierra On-Line, Inc. in 1993.
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Colin Gagnon Software |
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Color Dreams, Inc.
Developed several DOS and NES games.
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Colorado Computer Creations |
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Columbia Data Products, Inc. |
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ComAd Group |
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Comix |
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Command Simulations |
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Compedia Software & Hardware Ltd.
Compedia was founded in 1991 in Israel to develop educational CD-ROMs and hardware for children. In ca. 2011 to 2012, the company was discontinued. Compedia had an office in the U.S. as well.
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Compton's New Media, Inc. |
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COMPUTE! Publications, Inc.
PET Gazette (from Apr, 1978 to Sep, 1979) -- Original name
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Compu-Teach |
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Computer & Entertainment Inc. |
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ComputerEasy |
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Computer's Dream |
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Computing Specialties |
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Condor Software |
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Conquest Software |
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