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Lance Haffner Games |
TMG Indianapolis Auto Racing | |
Lankhor
Lankhor was a French video games development studio based in the south west of Paris, close to Versailles. The company was founded in 1987 and was closed on 31st December 2001. It was established through the merger of two very small French studios: BJL Langlois by Jean-Luc Langlois and Kilkhor by Bruno Gourier. The studio initially developed for the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS platforms and later branched out to console and hand-held systems such as the Mega Drive, SNES and Game Gear.
Around 1996 the studio was about to close down, but then Daniel Macré joined the studio. He had previously worked together with Lankhor to develop an adaptation of the Sinclair QL game Wroom! for other platforms. In 1997, Lankhor entered a partnership with Eidos Interactive and created F1 World Grand Prix (1999) for the PlayStation and Windows. After the cancellation of a contract with the Japanese publisher Video System Co., Ltd. in January 2001 for an FIA licensed F1 game on PC and Xbox, Lankhor closed its doors on 31st December 2001 as the economical situation provided no new opportunities to work on new titles in 2001. Val d'Isère Ski Park Manager (February 2002) was the company's last game. Some of the developers moved on to found Corélane. Daniel Macré left the games industry permanently.
One of the unreleased games is Sukiya.
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Maupiti Island, Black Sect, Vroom | |
Laser Point Publishing |
A Matter of Time | |
Lawrence Dickinson |
Cross of insanity | |
Lawrence Productions, Inc. |
Lost Tribe, Mind Castle, Nigel's World, Discovering America | |
Learning Company, The
The Learning Company was co-founded in 1980 as Advanced Learning Technology, in 1981 changed to The Learning Co., by Ann McCormick, Leslie Grimm and Frona Kahn and based in California. The first releases focused on teaching young children math, reading and science skills. The most lucrative properties the company developed were Super Solvers, Reader Rabbit and ClueFinders. The company joined the New York Stock Exchange in 1992.
In December 1995 The Learning Co. was acquired by SoftKey International. In October 1996, SoftKey International changed its company name to The Learning Company, Inc. and relocated it to Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange with Ticker Symbol TLC, and the TLC initials were added to the company logo. The company also operated the subsidiary TLC Properties, Inc. from the same location.
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Time Riders in American History | |
Learning Technologies, Inc. |
Monkey Business, Alpine Tram Ride | |
Legend Entertainment Company
Legend Entertainment Company was a Northern Virginia-based developer started in 1989 by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu. Their early games were illustrated text adventures. In 1993, they broke from the text tradition with Companions of Xanth which was their first game to feature a point-and-click interface.
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Eric the Unready, Shannara, Death Gate, Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers get all the Girls, Callahans crosstime saloon, Gateway 2 Homeworld, Spellcasting 201 - The Sorcerers Appliance, Mission Critical, Superhero - League of Hoboken, Spellcasting 301 - Spring Break, Gateway - Frederik Pohls | |
Leisuresoft |
Scrooge | |
Leland Interactive Media
Originaly Cinematronics Inc. The company was renamed after one of Tradewest's co-founders Leland Cook.
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Ivan Iron Man Stewarts - Super Off Road | |
Leon Baradat |
Manor | |
Lerner Research
Merged with Blue Sky Productions in 1992 to form Looking Glass Technologies.
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Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator, Car and Driver | |
Level 9 Computing, Ltd.
Level 9 Computing Ltd was founded in 1981 in the United Kingdom by three brothers: Mike, Pete and Nick Austin. Its aim was to produce and publish high quality text adventures initially for the BBC computer, and later the company expanded to other 8-bit and 16-bit computers of that era.
Mainly due to the decline in sales of text based adventures at the end of the 80s, Level 9 Computing had to close down in mid 1991. In the ten years in between it published over 20 main titles plus some licensed titles which have helped shape the adventure scene. Most of those releases were highly appreciated (and compared against those of Infocom). The theme of these adventures was initially set in fantasy and Middle Earth (which yielded the compilation: Jewels of Darkness), and later it published adventures with a Sci-Fi theme (Silicon Dreams trilogy). In the mid-80s it added relative rudimentary graphics to new and existing releases.
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Lancelot, Scapeghost, Champion of The Raj, Gnome Ranger, Billy The Kid, Time and Magik: The Trilogy | |
Level Systems |
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | |
Lifetimes |
Future Dimension | |
Lindensoft |
Alex Higgins' World Snooker | |
Linel
A software developer and publisher based in Switzerland.
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Traders - The Intergalactic Trading Game, The Neverending Story II: The Arcade Game, The Game of Life | |
Load'N'Go Software |
Fantastic Four | |
Lobo Software |
Oil Barons | |
Lobotomy Studios |
Powerslave | |
