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Attention to Detail Limited
Attention to Detail Limited was a software development company that developed leisure titles, business software, designed electronics for the arcade, and created many development tools. It was started in the front room of a house in September 1988 by 5 graduates from Birmingham University, Chris Gibbs, Fred Gill, Martin Green, Jon Steele and Jim Torjussen, and at its peak the company employed 75 people and occupied 12,000 sq. ft of converted barns in rural Warwickshire (UK).
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Rollcage, Blast Chamber, The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga, Night Shift | |
Attic Entertainment Software GmbH
Attic was a German software developer founded in 1989 and closed in 2001. Attic was founded by Hans-Jürgen Brändle, Jochen Hamma and Guido Henkel in the German town of Albstadt. All were equal partners in terms of ownership over the company.
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Realms of Arkania, Realms of Arkania 2, Spirit of Adventure, Drachen von Laas | |
Audio Visual Magic Ltd. |
Hunt for Red October | |
Audiogenic Software Ltd.
Based at: PO Box 4004, Stansted, Essex CM24 8JZ, United Kingdom.
Audiogenic has produced games in a variety of genres, although with sports games often their main focus. Most of their games have been self-published and self-developed.
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Krustys Fun House, European Champions, Loopz, Blockbuster, Allan Border's Cricket | |
Autumn Moon Entertainment, LLC
Autumn Moon Entertainment is a US game development studio founded in 2002 by Mike Kirchoff, initially with a single programmer and later with many ex-LucasArts employees on the team, especially artists.
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Avalon Hill
Developed numerous strategy and role-playing games of many types. From 1998 owned by Hasbro Interactive's Microprose division.
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Advanced Civilization, Third Reich | |
AVopenH
AVopenH is a small games manufacturer based in Krakow. The Company was established in 1994 as a supplement to its first game, entitled "Digital Warriors". In the same year the company managed to teamed up with the oldest Polish game publisher - xLand. The result of the cooperation was to issue at the beginning of 1995 "Digital Warriors".
xLand also issued a second AVopenH game "R-Activ '. The Game was a remake of" Pongo ". "R-Activ" got a thrashing (if anyone even bothered to write anything about it) and the authors sank into the ground. In the meantime xLand ceased to exist.
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Buddyros, Digital Warriors | |
AweSoft, Inc. |
Miramar, Jet Fighter Simulator | |
Azeroth, Inc. |
Inspector Gadget - Global Terror | |
Bally Data Systems, Inc.
Midway Mfg. Co. was incorporated in 1969 when Midway Manufacturing Co. was acquired by Bally Manufacturing Corporation. Midway continued their business as manufacturer of electro-mechanical arcade machines, but starting in 1973 their main business became videogame arcade games.
The Midway team designed a video game console and simple computer which was released under the Bally name in 1978 - the Bally Professional Arcade (eventually renamed Bally Computer System and then Bally Astrocade). Using a custom video display chip, this 8-bit console had 4k of RAM, a keyboard, and used cassette-sized cartridges known as Videocades. Users could also do minimal programming with the BASIC program included. About 45 games were released for this console.
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Ms.Pac-Man | |
Bally Sente Inc.
Also Known As
Sente Technologies (from 1983 to 1984-05)
Videa, Inc. (from 1982 to 1983)
Bally Sente was originally a development company called Videa, Inc. founded by Howard Delman, Roger Hector and Ed Rotberg in 1981. The company later became the video game division of Pizza Time Theater after an offer by Atari's President Nolan Bushnell and they renamed it Sente.
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Stocker | |
Bally Technologies Inc.
Bally is a well known arcade manufacturer of coin-operated arcade machines and pinball machines. They started to develop its own games first on their own console and lately on most popular consoles and PCs.
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Hat Trick, Rampage, Tapper | |
Banana Development, Inc.
Banana Development, Inc., is a Milwaukee-based home-computer games company specializing in IBM PC and Apple II/IIe/gs conversions of coin-operated videogames under contract for major software vendors. Banana Development is well-connected, with contacts at companies such as Konami, Mindscape, EA, and ATARI Games, Inc. (the coin-operated game company, owned by NAMCO).
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Bananoid | |
Bandai Namco Entertainment UK Ltd.
Founded in Manchester, England, previously - Ocean Software was a hugely successful label up to the mid-90s, operating mainly on home computer systems. Ocean is responsible for a huge amount of arcade conversions, ports from other platforms and also original PC games.
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Platoon, Batman, The Slugger, Dig Dug | |
Bashurov V. |
The Battle on the Black Sea | |
BC GmbH Verlags- und Medien-, Forschungs- und Bera |
Dig-Dogs: Streetbusters | |
Beavis-Soft |
Wacky Wheels, Phylox | |
Bedrock Software |
Football Manager 3 | |
Ben Croshaw |
The Sorceror's Appraisal | |
Ben Hanke |
Blastocyst, TinyTris | |
