| Company name | Description | Games |
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MarkSoft |
Gandalf | |
Martin Burkhart |
AXET | |
Masayoshi Ueda |
Bap!!! | |
Mass Media Games, Inc. |
3-D TableSports | |
Mastertronic, Inc.
Mastertronic, Inc. was a branch of UK-based Mastertronic Ltd. It was started in 1986 by Martin Alper, one of the original co-founders of the main company, who relocated to the United States to actively manage this new division.
The company published and distributed Mastertronic games to United States locations.
Mastertronic, Inc. seems to have folded around 1989 during the take-over of its mother company by Virgin Games.
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Knight Games, Prowler, Trilogy, The Demon's Forge | |
Mateusz Viste |
Hangman 2010 | |
Matt Kaufman |
African Desert Campaign | |
Mauritius Software |
Batfish | |
MAVIS & PKTS |
Self Control | |
Max Design GesMBH |
1869, Burntime, Motor City | |
Maxis Software Inc.
Maxis Software Inc. is another company eventually acquired by Electronics Arts. It was originally established in 1987 and produced all the Sim- games. Like SimCity, SimFarm or SimIsle. The Sims series was already produced under the Electronic Arts.
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SimCity 2000, SimFarm, SimEarth, A-Train, SimAnt - The Electronic Ant Colony, Sim Isle: Missions In The Rainforest, SimCity Classic, SimLife, SimCity: Enhanced CD-ROM | |
Maxwell Technology Ltd. |
Hotshot | |
MDF |
Polanie | |
MDO
MDO was a division of Coktel Vision, responsible for most of the engineering as the graphics and designs came from the headquarters in Paris. The company was named after the 3 co-founders: Mathieu Marciacq (M), Arnaud Delrue (D) and Roland Oskian (O).
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Cougar Force | |
MECC
MECC (the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium) started as a state agency. The software was given away to schools in Minnesota and elsewhere in the country. MECC was a publisher and distributor of high-quality educational software for children. In May 1996 MECC was acquired by SoftKey International Inc.
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Oregon Trail, Amazon Trail, Secret Island, Number Munchers | |
Mecom Software |
The Second World | |
Med Systems Software
Med Systems was bought out by Screenplay in 1983, but they folded in 1984. Med Systems originally published some games for the TRS-80 Model I/III starting in 1981 (games programmed by Jyym Pearson), and then expanded to TRS-80 Coco games starting in 1982, all by Ken Kalish.
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Asylum II | |
Megadream Software |
Arya Vaiv | |
MegaSoft Entertainment, Inc. |
Disciples of Steel | |
Merit Software
Merit Studios, Inc. was originally an American public company based in Dallas, Texas.
Merit Studios (Europe) Limited, (formerly Zeppelin Games), was formed in 1994 and was allocated responsibility for the sales, marketing and distribution of Merit Inc.'s US games into the European marketplace as well as developing its own products.
In 1996, Merit Studios (Europe) Limited obtained both registered developer and publisher status for Sony PlayStation. At the end of 1996, the Directors of Merit Studios (Europe) completed a Management Buy Back of the European Subsidiary from Merit Studios, Inc. The company was renamed Eutechnyx Limited, with the Infogrames Group acquiring a minority shareholding in the company.
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Kronolog - The Nazi Paradox, The Final Conflict, Medieval Warriors, Operation Combat II: By Land, Sea & Air, Operation Combat | |
