| Company name | Description | Games |
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Wesson International
Wesson, located in Texas, USA , is also known as Adacel Systems, Inc.
The company is one of the world’s leading suppliers of professional air traffic control (ATC) simulators and games.
Professional training systems, ranging from desktop stations to very powerful supercomputer units, deliver virtual ATC environments with high-resolution, real-time graphics, 3D visualization capabilities, sound, and voice recognition technology.
The company creates software for design, Internet, and entertainment applications. It provides solutions in several industries, including government, military, universities, entertainment, communications, and education.
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Moonbase, Tracon: Air Traffic Control Simulator | |
Westwood Studio
Westwood Studios had a successful start with some very popular strategy games like Dune 2 or Command & Conquer and became very successful and known. The company continued to extend the ranks of their games with more titles until it was eventually acquired by Electronic Arts who continue to improve the most popular games series.
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Dune 2, Lion King, Command & Conquer, Super Dune 2, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Legend of Kyrandia 2, BattleTech - The Crescent Hawks Revenge, Legend of Kyrandia 3 - Malcolms Revenge, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Circuit's Edge, Goofy's Railway Express, Donald's Alphabet Chase | |
White Magic |
Charly the Clown | |
Wierenga Software |
Bert's Dinosaurs | |
Wiering Software |
Mario, Super Angelo | |
Will Vinton Productions |
Avoid The Noid | |
William D. Pinehart |
G-stones III | |
William Soleau |
Tribolo, Battle For Atlantis, Rampcube | |
Williams Entertainment Inc.
Founded in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, Williams Manufacturing Company was a pinball machine manufacturer. The proprietor was Harry Williams who was responsible for developing automatic scoring, kicker-bumpers, and the "tilt" mechanism. Williams became one of the giants in the pinball machine industry during the "Golden Age" of pinball (1960's through the 1980's). Its main competitors were the big names in the industry of the time - Bally, Gottlieb, and Midway.
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Joust CGA | |
Windmill Software
Windmill Software was a game development company that developed games for the IBM PC in the early 80's. Windmill games were programmed with a strong underlying knowledge of the hardware, and many of them showed that knowledge with enhanced colors or sound, for example their unique use of the 160x100 16 colour mode on CGA graphics, or their early pulse with modulation of the PC speaker.
Windmill published nine games between 1982 and 1984, Styx being their last one. Almost all of their games were inspired by hits of the times, such as Styx is based on QIX and The Exterminator resembles Centipede with some twists. At least two of their games have had modern remakes, Digger and Styx.
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Styx, The Exterminator, Digger | |
Winged Yak Productions |
Flynn Sprint | |
Wizard games |
Chase, Rockstar! | |
Wizard Software
Still around just not doing as much. Outer Ridge was from 1995.
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Outer Ridge | |
WJS Design
Also Known As
Smithson Computing (from 1982 to 1989)
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Baal | |
Workman Publishing |
Brain Quest 6th Grade Edition | |
World Domination Productions |
Artman's Goplanes! | |
World Software |
Franko - The Crazy Revenge | |
Worwyk Software |
Blackstar - Agent of Justice, Mel Odius goes Six String Searchin' | |
WRF Studios
SoftLab Laboratories was founded in 1988 by pioneer adventure game developer William R. Fisher III. Bill Fisher developed and released his first independent, shareware game, Last Half of Darkness, for MS-DOS in 1989.
SoftLab released several other games in the early 1990s including The Nine Lives of Secret Agent Kat, an RPG/adventure with an espionage plot.
The company was called William R. Fisher III Studios in 1994 when the game The Romantic Blue was commercially released on CD-ROM (published by CrystalVision Software). Also released that year was the shareware game Death by Dark Shadows.
In 2000, an updated version of Last Half of Darkness was released for Windows on CD-ROM, developed and published by WRF Studios.
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Last Half of Darkness VGA | |
WSP-Software |
Time Hunters Pinball, Time Hunters | |
