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SoftServ, Inc.
SoftServ Inc. was a Washington State corporation in the 1980's and was best known for developing the simulation games Inside Trader and Corporate Raider. SoftServ was wholly owned by Bruce Kolpack and Brad Canady.
Previous developments by SoftServ included the Server Series of home management software for the Commodore 64 and the IBM PC. SoftServ software was distributed nationwide in K-Mart and Sears stores, and later through a relationship with Cosmi Corp.
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Inside Trader: The Authentic Stock Trading Game, Corporate Raider: The Pirate of Wall St. | |
Softstar Entertainment Inc.
Softstar (Chinese: 大宇, Da Yu) is a computer game developer based in Taipei, Taiwan (China). It was founded on April 27th, 1988, by a group of three people, and incorporated ten years later. Eric Lee is the company's CEO.
Softstar has gradually gained a reputation of the leading developer and publisher of Chinese (Taiwanese)-made role-playing games. Xuanyuan Jian (1990) was one of the first Chinese-made games in the genre. Utilizing Japanese gameplay mechanics, the game was set in old China, establishing the tradition of Chinese RPGs with historical settings. Xuanyuan Jian spawned many sequels and became the longest-running Chinese RPG series.
In 1995, Softstar released Xianjian Qixia Zhuan, also known as The Legend of Sword and Fairy, which became one of the most popular Chinese games of all times, inspiring not only several sequels, but also a TV series. In the second half of the 2000's Softstar began to shift its focus on online games.
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Mirage Thunder, Prince of Evil | |
Software 2000
Software 2000 was a German game publisher and developer that became one of the biggest German game companies in the 1990s.
Software 2000 was founded 1987 in Eutin (a small town in Schleswig-Holstein) by brothers Andreas and Marc Wardenga. They produced and published games for Amiga, Atari ST, PC and later on for Gameboy Color and the Playstation.
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Ocean Trader, F1 Manager, Cubulus | |
Software Creations |
General Trivia, Sports Trivia, Around the World Trivia, Hawaii State Trivia | |
Software Diversions, Inc.
Moraffware was formed in the mid 1980's by Steve Moraff. The company quickly became known for its well-made Mahjongg and jigzaw puzzle shareware and freeware games. In addition to puzzle games, the company also developed and published arcade, action and role-playing games.
Moraff's Revenge was the company's first 3D dungeon game for the PC. Moraff's PinBall was the first computer game created by Moraffware for IBM's introduction of VGA resolution.
The company began developing games for Windows in the 1990s. The company distributed games under the names Moraff Games and MoraffWare, as trademarked labels. Many of the company's freeware and shareware games were distributed through larger channels like AOL, Yahoo! and CNet.
In June 2004 the company name was changed to Software Diversions, Inc.
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Moraff's Blast I, Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven, Moraff's Entrap, Moraff's Escapade, Moraff's Monster Bridge, Moraff's Monster Memory, Moraff's Morejongg, Moraff's Pinball, Moraff's Revenge, Moraff's Stones, Moraff's Tempt-Tris, Moraff's World | |
Software of Sweden |
Bubble Pop | |
Software Pirates, INC. |
Montezuma's Revenge | |
Software Sorcery |
Jutland, AEGIS: Guardian of the Fleet, Sea Rogue | |
Software Storm, Inc. |
Breakfree | |
Software Studios
Software Studios was the development division of Electric Dreams.
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Millennium: Return to Earth | |
Soft-World |
Records of Warrior | |
Sohrab Ismail-Beigi |
Gravity Wars | |
Solaris Systems |
Double Cross | |
Soleau Software, Inc. |
Block-Man 1, Ladder Man I, Maze Mission Adventure Game, Mice Men, Ant Run, Bolo Ball, Blind Wars, Block Man 2, Bolo Adventures I, Taxi Run, Rock Man, Crusher, Dotso, Doubolo, Robix, Sea Run | |
Southlogic Studios
The Brazilian development studio Southlogic Studios was founded in July of 1996 by Christian Lykawka, in Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul.
During its first year of operation, Southlogic Studios produced a 2D platform shooter game called Guimo. It was published in Brazil and Europe in 1997.
After that, the company went into hibernation for a year, until Christian had the opportunity to join an "incubation" program for new companies at UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul). Christian took advantage of this opportunity by laying out a long-term plan for creating a proprietary 3D engine.
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Guimo | |
Spaceport Malibu
Spaceport Malibu was the name of a short-lived team that developed Hard Nova (1990) under the leadership of Karl Buiter.
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Hard Nova | |
Special FX Software Ltd. |
Batman - The Caped Crusader | |
Spectrum Holobyte
Founded in 1982, the company grow in numbers. It employed over 300 people and generated vast number of games. The company acquired Microprose and SimTex and from 1996 they presented itself as Microprose.
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Sokoban, Crisis in the Kremlin, National Lampoon's Chess Maniac 5 Billion and 1, Tetris Classic | |
Sphere, Inc.
Sphere, Inc. was formed when Nexa Corporation merged with Spectrum Holobyte in 1987. Both companies were listed as divisions of Sphere, Inc. until late 1991.
Sphere, Inc. was 89% owned by Robert Maxwell, the UK media baron. When Maxwell died in November 1991 (presumed to have fallen overboard from his luxury yacht), chaos ensued for all of the Maxwell companies, including Sphere.
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Super Tetris, Tetris Gold, Stunt Driver, Gato, Vette! | |
Sphinx Software |
St. Thomas | |
