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Extinct developers you miss the most

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First post, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2011-04-30, 19:45

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The title says it all. Being an old-school RPG fan/gamer I miss

- Black Isle (Baldur's Gate: the hound of shadow was cancelled)
- Troika games
- Interplay (Fallout: Van Buren was cancelled)

- Horrorsoft (I really liked Call of Cthulhu: Dark corners of the earth ->Destiny's end was cancelled)

- Sir-Tech. Mostly for "Jagged alliance series". Someone was developing a new installment but it seems it never came out.

I know I left out a lot of them.

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Reply 1 of 22, by Dominus

Posted on 2011-04-30, 19:48

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Origin 😉

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Reply 2 of 22, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2011-04-30, 19:48

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Yep. How could I forgot Origin.

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Reply 3 of 22, by Gamecollector

Posted on 2011-04-30, 20:35

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Cryo.
Microprose.

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Reply 4 of 22, by collector

Posted on 2011-04-30, 20:55

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Sierra, of course. Even LucasArts of old, even though it still exists, the old development teams for their adventures are long gone.

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Reply 5 of 22, by leileilol

Posted on 2011-04-30, 21:42

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Mythos Games
Apogee/3D Realms (remember when they DEVELOPED games? hasn't been since '97)
Spectrum Holobyte/Sphere
Dirty Beret (for obvious reasons...)

Reply 6 of 22, by Gemini000

Posted on 2011-04-30, 23:11

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How has anyone NOT mentioned Bullfrog yet? :O

And yeah, I miss Origin too... and Looking Glass Studios. Why do we still not have a third System Shock game? :/

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Reply 7 of 22, by Mystery

Posted on 2011-05-01, 05:24

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Origin Systems
Looking Glass Studios
SSI
Westwood Studios

and to thrown in something more recent: Flagship Studios

oh, and Blizzard North

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Reply 8 of 22, by Malik

Posted on 2011-05-01, 06:46

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1. Origin
2. Sierra On-Line
3. Microprose
4. SSI
5. Silmarils
6. Infogrammes
7. Palace Software
8. Westwood Studios
9. Looking Glass Studios
10. Sir-Tech Software
11. Dynamix
12. Maxis
1.................. hmmm....seems like almost every dos games developer for me! 🤣

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Reply 9 of 22, by Tetrium

Posted on 2011-05-01, 07:13

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Reply 10 of 22, by kekko

Posted on 2011-05-01, 07:32

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Reply 11 of 22, by F2bnp

Posted on 2011-05-01, 07:33

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Microprose
Bullfrog
Sierra
Lucasarts (back when they released Adventure games)
New World Computing
And probably others that I can't remember right now. 🙁

Reply 12 of 22, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2011-05-01, 09:42

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Nice lists. I see I forgot almost all of them.

Reply 13 of 22, by rfnagel

Posted on 2011-05-01, 10:04

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Spectrum Holobyte - The best combat flight simulations avaialable at the time (Falcon 3.0), and the BEST Tetris game ever released (Tetris Classic -> http://www.tetrisconcept.net/wiki/Tetris_Classic ).

Looking Glass - Terra Nova, the most underrated game ever released IMHO.

BAO (Bruce Artwick Organization) - The best addons for Microsoft Flight Simulator back in the 90's.

subLogic - Developers of the first flight simulator (before Micro$lop *STOLE* it!), and numerous addon sceneries (see below for a few "tribute" pages) for Flight Simulator 3/4/5.

http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/Flight_Simulator/SD-7Area.htm
http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/Flight_Simulator/SD-HawFa.htm
...and also related, http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/Flight_Simulator/FS40Eggs.htm 😀

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Reply 14 of 22, by Hater Depot

Posted on 2011-05-01, 15:16

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Wow, no Infocom mention yet.

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Reply 15 of 22, by gerwin

Posted on 2011-05-01, 15:48

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I miss many of the above,
want to add Jane's combat simulations.

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Reply 16 of 22, by leileilol

Posted on 2011-05-01, 15:53

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Activision

remember when they developed games? The games they developed were good games. except that last one. then they stopped developing games.
I miss the Activision DEVELOPER. the publisher can go to hell, though

Reply 17 of 22, by nikiniki

Posted on 2011-05-01, 18:59

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Reply 18 of 22, by Xian97

Posted on 2011-05-01, 22:05

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Origin would be the one I miss the most, followed by Looking Glass Studios.

I hadn't seen mention of Accolade yet. Star Control II was their best game in my opinion, but I also enjoyed their point and click adventures - Les Manley Lost in LA and Les Manley Search for the King as well as some of their sports titles such as Hardball and Mean 18.

SSI with their gold box RPGs, Eye of the Beholder series, and many more.

Microprose was another. I wasn't much of a flight sim fan, but Master of Magic, Master of Orion, and Darklands were titles of theirs that I played.

Westwood - Lands of Lore games and original Command and Conquer.

Mindcraft - Magic Candle 1-3 and Bloodstone

Reply 19 of 22, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2011-05-02, 13:42

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Eye of the beholder = WESTWOOD

I think SSI was not the developer.

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