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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 Originally made for free by Chris Pirih in 1991.
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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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Cinemaware Corporation
Cinemaware Corporation was founded in 1985. The company was Robert Jacob's and Phyllis Jacob's software development house. Established in 1985, it existed for seven years before going under in 1991.
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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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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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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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Copysoft
Copysoft was a brand of the Belgian company Edisys SCRL based in Brussels and it was owned by Philippe Mercier. It is best known for the Skunny series released around 1993. In 1995 the studio was also most likely involved with the game Skunny: Special Edition using the brand name Magic Touch.
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Core Design Limited
In its nine year history, Core Design has built an unrivaled reputation as one of the world's premier development teams. They have created over fifty titles, winning numerous awards in the process. Several of these games appeared under the Core brand, whilst others were released by some of the largest games publishers in the world. Core has achieved critical acclaim and commercial success in equal measures for one simple reason: they have always put gameplay first and foremost.
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Corrosive Software
This English company was started as The Big Red Software Company by Paul Ranson in 1989. They primarily developed conversions, budget games and licensed titles, working closely with Codemasters in their early years. Later their eponymous racing game was successful.
In 1995 Big Red Software was acquired by Eidos and became part of the new Eidos Interactive.
The division was renamed Corrosive Software in about 1997 and was a development unit of Eidos. The division completed the game Assault Corps but it was never released. Eidos closed down Corrosive Software in 1998.
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Cosmi Corporation |
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Cosmos Designs |
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Courtney E. Krehbiel |
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Crack dot Com
Crack dot Com, released the brilliant cult classic Abuse but, due to bad financial decisions, went bankrupt.
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