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Warbaby
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What's your favorite game company of all time?
I really like Hewson and Mastertronic. |
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Matt
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Undoubtable System 3 are the kings of making games for the C64, just take a look at these classics if you weren't impressed yet:
International Karate
IK+
The Last Ninja 1, 2, Remix, 3
Dominator
Myth - Hystory in the making
Flimbo's Quest
Tusker
Turbo Charge
Also, Thalamus (and especially APEX) are worth being mentioned.
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Steppe
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Thalamus, definitely!
Armalyte was just amazing for that time! |
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Puterman
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HES and Llamasoft.
Matrix is the best game ever, with AMC as close second.
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Eyeth
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Hello.
Mine would be Electronic Arts, the producers of classics such as:
Archon
M.U.L.E.
Bard's Tale
One on One
That's just off the top of my head. Some other notable gaming companies were New World Computing, Accolade, EPYX and Activision.
Enjoy.
-Todd Elliott |
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hollowman
Registered: Dec 2001
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graftgold, for their work both on c64 and amiga |
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Cupid
Registered: Jan 2002
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As we see in all these answers it depends on the genre of game:
How about Magnetic Scrolls for The Pawn, The Guild of Thieves or Infocom for HHGTTG, Leather godesses of Phobos?
Who did the Bards's tale?
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TDJ
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I think that was Interplay. My brother bought a few of those games as originals because he needed the docs.
My face company:Epyx. For Mission Impossible & the Games series :) |
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goldfish
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Firebird
For producing ELITE
GDF
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Derision
Registered: Feb 2002
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Totally depended on the genre. Role playing, it's definitely Origin (Ultima, Space Rogue, Tangled Tales, etc.). Quality games, you hit Electronic Arts (Skate or Die, Sentinel Worlds, Starflight, Marble Madness, etc.).
I was also fond of Accolade, particularly for flight games. Nothing touches Ace of Aces.
Oooh... what about USGold? Outrun, Tower Toppler, the works.
There are just too many good game companies to pick a favourite. Heheh.
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MacGyver
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Protovision ofcourse! ;-))
Well... System 3, Electronic Arts, Thalamus (include Apex ofcourse) and Ocean for their Cartridge-games like Shadow of the Beast. |
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cadaver
Registered: Feb 2002
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- System 3 & Thalamus for technical excellence
- Ocean for technical excellence as well, war-atmosphere and love/hate relationship to certain games :)
- Rainbow Arts for Turrican I&II
- Microprose for simulations
- Cosmi for early horror/gore games
- Phantom software for the weirdest martial arts game ever (Phantom Karate Devils) |
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smila
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thalamus for me.
but alternative software has great memories as its the first software company i worked at and they treated us well. =) |
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JCB
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I did some work for Thalamus, not saying what, it's kind of embarrassing, a prize for whoever finds out what I did ;) hehe |
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smila
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jcb - do ya know andy (fuck whats his surname)....erm.
ahhh. still cant remember it
aha thats it... andy roberts.
i worked with him for about 3 years or so.
he's started up thalamus interactive (something like that.
good lad he is. |
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JCB
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I'd seen Andy around on Lemon forums a few times and he ended up asking for my c.v. sent it and he said they were waiting for some contracts to be sorted then he'd probably have some work for me (GBA stuff). Not heard anything since or seen him on Lemon. I think they've got a PS2 game nearing final so he's probably just busy. |
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pixel23
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MIDWAY for Satans Hollow and the very great WIZARD OF WOR!!!
They´re very old but they have a great gameplay!!! |
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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
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Quote: Undoubtable System 3 are the kings of making games for the C64, just take a look at these classics if you weren't impressed yet:
International Karate
IK+
The Last Ninja 1, 2, Remix, 3
Dominator
Myth - Hystory in the making
Flimbo's Quest
Tusker
Turbo Charge
Also, Thalamus (and especially APEX) are worth being mentioned.
Probably off topic but there's something that hit me about the game Tusker. There were some sound effects created for the game by Maniacs of Noise, but those SFX never was featured in the game, as I could not get the SFX option in the C64 game. Just Matt Gray's awesome music.
Link
http://gtw64.retro-net.de/articles/maniacs.php |
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DRAX
Registered: Oct 2004
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System 3
Thalamus
Hewson
OCEAN
Melbourne House |
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enthusi
Registered: May 2004
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Origin
Lucasfilm
Both did more than most people remember at once.
Origin Games (mostly) had an incredible depth - not "just" the amazing ultima series. |
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Hate Bush
Registered: Jul 2002
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Cinemaware and Microprose.
(Both had their best moments on Amiga/PC, so if we cut the choice down to C64 titles only: Accolade and Activision.) |
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Stone
Registered: Oct 2006
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Epyx |
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Carrion
Registered: Feb 2009
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Timsoft
We sold them 2 or 3 games in 90's
but seriously Thalamus rocks!
btw: who produced Katakis and Grand Monster Slam?
Was it Rainbow Arts?
Then Rainbow arts too! |
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celticdesign
Registered: Oct 2005
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huhhh, impossible to name only one.
hmmm... beside of the mentioned companies...
broderbound, ariolasoft (by the way, i am looking for an mint, original and boxed copy of Kaiser. offers are welcome!), synpase software, datasoft, ssi, parker bros., big five, alligata, palace software, creative sparks, creative software, access software, screenplay, anirog, atarisoft, colosoftware, datamost and dont forget about all those classics from first star.
is there anything misssing fellas ;-)
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Stainless Steel
Registered: Mar 2003
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Electronic Arts for Skate or Die, Epyx all games and Microprose for gunship and airborne ranger. Ocean too.
Sensible Software!
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Conjuror
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Hewson for PARADRIOD!!! |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
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System 3 (Marc Cale was a dick, Adrian Cale was s0-so - in-house teams rocked).
Thalamus
Origin Software
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Adam
Registered: Jul 2009
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Rainbow Arts
Melbourne House
Sensible Software
Ocean (Europe)
Imagine
Firebird
System 3
Team-17
Hewson
Graftgold
Epyx
Mastertronic
Micropose
Broderbund Software
EA
Namco
Konami
Bally-Midway
Sega (in house)
and of course... Nintendo (in house)
..Adam/Onslaught/SIDwave |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
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lemon64 is attacking again... |
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v3to
Registered: Feb 2005
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thalamus
palace software
firebird/rainbird
rainbow arts
llamasoft
lucasfilm games
epyx
infocom
electronic arts
cinemaware
not c64 related: sega |
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SIDWAVE
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Well, too many good to mention, and many good games from small independant developers too.
But I would mention Epyx for Summer, Winter, World games, because those games can still make 5 grown men sit a whole afternoon and battle it out.
Something like IK+ or Delta, will only last 15 minutes, then we feel kinda bored. so.. :D
Well, System 3 I wouldnt really call a game company, more a publisher. From what i read they released several games, for which the developer got little or even nothing paid.
Worst example is IK+ - A Mclean simply has never gotten any money for this game. |
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Peiselulli
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Rainbow Arts, because I was a part of it.
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null
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Nintendo.
>.>
<.<
*runs*
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http://zomgwtfbbq.info |
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GT
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What's the purpose with this ?
It's not scene related. :P |
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chatGPZ
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GT: what oswald said :)
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Jon
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Hm... The OP was May of 2002. Five of the people who posted here have had their accounts closed since.
I think this thread has risen from the grave to claim more victims! Hold on to your accounts, everybody!
Or... it could just be a necro'd fluffy post.
MMmmmm... Fluffy.
Next up: POST HERE EVERY TIME YOU GET NEW C= STUFF!
-Ninj |
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Moloch
Registered: Jan 2002
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Whoever published Manky?
/me hovers
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Street Tuff
Registered: Feb 2002
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ReLine Software Hannover
i've been a small part of it. R.I.P. Holger Gehrmann :( |
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
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I went to system 3 offices one sunday as someone I knew was working on a game for them.
it was a small office building, but the really cool thing about the place.. Robin Levy's artwork on the wall, he was amazing at paper art also.
the ONLY thing that was good about sys 3 was the talent working for them.
Apex , Rowland boys were owed a shed load of money when thalamus when bust from what I gather.
so although both legendary companies.. there was the other side to them, beside the obvious talent.
probably one of my all time fav coders is John Twiddy, last ninja.. ikari warriors.. and of course the expert cart |
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GT
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Whoever published Sex Games. |
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Soren
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Also.... What's your favourite shoesize?!?! |
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GT
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44 Jeff. Hehe. |
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The Shadow
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Origin, Thalamus and Infocom. These companies made consistently cool games. |
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tomz
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I dont think you can you name one single company as there were many who released many different great games on this machine.Oh sure you can say OCEAN,Rowland Bros(Mayhem) and Hewson and another dozen and still feel wanting to add more companies and their respective games to the list ;)
BTW-We are all retro freaks here so what makes you thinnk we would only have one single fave game?? I rest my case
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Flex
Registered: Feb 2002
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Electronic Arts, Epyx, Ocean, Microprose. |
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r242
Registered: Jul 2007
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Synapse Software. |
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Soren
Registered: Dec 2001
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@ GT: Same here! *HIGH-FIVE* ;-) |
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Linus
Registered: Jun 2004
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Only 42 over here ... *sigh* |
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Oswald
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46/7 |
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Oswald
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46/7 |
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Hate Bush
Registered: Jul 2002
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Bigfoot/Breeze to the thread.
and btw. merry inebriated christmas to y'all |
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master_hacker
Registered: Feb 2009
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EA/Dynamix (Project Firestart) ! and lets not forget...
Sierra, Cinemaware, LucasArts, and Microprose to name a few... |
