| Company name | Description | Games |
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hq team |
War Diary | |
Hudson Soft Company, Ltd.
Hudson Soft Company is Sapporo's biggest games developer and one of Japan's oldest for home platforms. They are famous especially for their Bomberman series.
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Dyna | |
HVB Software |
Memory, Dobbel, Scrabble - HVB | |
Hyperware |
Gamblers And Money Grubbers - Blackjack, Gamblers and Money Grubbers: Friday Night Poker | |
Hypothermia |
Aleshar: The World of Ice | |
Iain Brown |
Mummies | |
Ian Warmby |
Gobbler, Battleships 1991 | |
IBM
IBM published games itself only for two short periods: The early 1980s, and the mid 1990s. Before that it developed and funded development for early computer games in the 50s and 60s.
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Adventures in Math, Dedale, Zyll, Acquire, Freddy's Rescue Roundup, Rocket Lander | |
ICOM Simulations, Inc. |
Uninvited | |
id Software
ID software is considered a founder of FPS games. They started with Wolfenstein series followed by Doom series and Quake series. They remained active to current days with many successful titles.
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Commander Keen 1, Commander Keen 4, Spear of destiny, Commander Keen - Keen Dreams, Doom, Heretic, Commander Keen 6 | |
Idea Software |
Gear Works | |
Ideas From the Deep |
Pyramids of Egypt | |
iEntertainment Network, Inc.
Interactive Magic was founded in 1994 by MicroProse co-founder "Wild" Bill Stealey. The company was taken public in 1998, and had its name changed to iEntertainment Network in 1999. It is based in Cary, a suburb of Raleigh, North Carolina.
The company focused on Military Simulations initially and then bought two Internet companies, MPG Net (casual online games) and in 1997 Interactive Creations Inc. (known for WarBirds, an online WW2 combat flight game). Other games in their portfolio include war games such as North vs. South and their The Great Battles series.
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Star Rangers | |
Iguana Entertainment, Inc.
Iguana was purchased by Acclaim and turned into Acclaim Studios Austin and Acclaim Studios Teesside.
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Batman Forever 2, College Slam | |
Ikarion Software GmbH
In 1993 Kingsoft's owner Fritz Schäfer started a new company for PC and Amiga systems called Ikarion Software GmbH. Throughout the first years the company focussed on business simulations, later they started to develop strategy games and Gameboy Advance Puzzle Games.
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Zeppelin - Giants of the Sky, Hattrick! | |
Illymani Designs |
Blind Justice | |
Image Works
Image Works was a Mirrorsoft publishing label.
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Blade Warrior, Bombuzal | |
Images Software Ltd.
Images Software Ltd. was a game development studio established circa 1988 by Karl Jeffrey. It is known for classic titles as Back to the Future Part II, Bubsy II, and The Hunt for Red October, as well as ports of many games.
The studio initially developed for Activision, with ports of Wonder Boy in Monster Land for instance, but later they also worked for Ocean and US Gold (e.g. porting G-Loc Air Battle). Initially focusing on Amiga, Atari ST and ZX Spectrum, Images later moved on to the Game Boy, NES and SNES. The company has close ties to The Climax Group, also founded by Karl Jeffery, and may be linked to Images' desire to publish its own games.
After 1994 no new products appeared, and most likely the company was continued as The Climax Group.
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Back to the Future Part II | |
Imagexcel |
Quarantine | |
Imagic
Mostly a console cartridge developer for early 1980s console systems, Imagic occasionally branched out into the computer market.
Followed Activision's lead as the second major independent game software developer, initially staffed with headhunted disgruntled Atari employees. Bill Grubb, Bob Smith, Mark Bradley, Rob Fulop, and Denis Koble had all worked for Atari. The company was the second third-party publisher to make games for the Atari 2600.
The staff also included Jim Goldberger, Dave Durran and Brian Dougherty from Mattel and Gary Kato from Versatec.
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Sherlock Holmes - Another Bow, I Damiano - The Wizard of Partestrada | |
