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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Dec 27, 2020 8:07:58 GMT -5
Interesting, thanks!
Yeah and it seems Mindscape didn't "become french" until 2001.
I had EU 1990-1994 basically done by now. Might be best to slow these down a bit for 1995-1999 so you guys can help me not mess up and have to edit several documents and pics each time.
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Post by teroknor on Dec 27, 2020 11:05:18 GMT -5
Novotrade/Appaloosa (Ecco the Dolphin etc.) were Hungarian. They also had US offices at some point, but I don't know if any development was done there. Regarding Sphere (Falcon, Vette), you can ignore Robert Maxwell. He was British and Sphere was some kind of holding company for his US games business, but development was done at Spectrum Holobyte in Alameda. Jurassic Park GB/NES (SNES, too) was done by Brits, but in California. See gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Ocean_of_AmericaSpace Hulk I'm pretty sure was developed in the UK. I can't exactly prove it, but if you look at the involved people via Moby, their other credits are almost entirely UK-based. Also, the copyright points to EA's UK subsidiary.
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Dec 27, 2020 11:38:21 GMT -5
According to sega retro they set up office in california in the early 90s, so I went with that. But given the developer names I guess a combo is more accurate.
Thanks for the Sphere info.
Are you saying Jurassic Park GB/NES/SNES should be NA & EU or NA? I can't open that link for some reason.
EU does make sense for Space Hulk given Games Workshop, and the british voice actors.
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Post by teroknor on Dec 27, 2020 13:35:17 GMT -5
Re Jurassic Park: the members of Sheffield-based Painting by Numbers moved to California to establish Ocean of America's in-house studio. So that's a US developer if you ask me. Some work was done in the UK, though, mostly the sound.
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Dec 27, 2020 13:50:08 GMT -5
Right. I'd count that as a combo myself as who they are/their background is as important or more I think.
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Dec 28, 2020 9:19:25 GMT -5
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Dec 29, 2020 5:29:54 GMT -5
1990-1994 EU stats: Systems: Amiga - 61 PC DOS - 47 Mega Drive/Genesis - 32 Game Boy - 33 Nintendo Entertainment System - 29 Sega Master System - 27 Super Nintendo/Super Famicom - 23 Mega CD/Sega CD - 17 Atari ST - 14 Commodore 64 - 6 Arcade - 3 Macintosh - 2 ZX Spectrum - 2 Amstrad CPC - 2 Jaguar - 2
Devs: Rare - 19 Core Design - 12 Gremlin Interactive/Gremlin Graphics Software - 8 Software Creations - 7 Sensible Software - 7 Factor 5 - 7 DMA Design - 6 Bullfrog Productions - 6 Probe Software/Probe Entertainment - 6 Codemasters - 6 Ocean - 6 Virgin Games - 4 The Bitmap Brothers - 4 Magnetic Fields - 4 Delphine Software/Delphine Software International - 4 Tiertex/Tiertex Design Studios - 4 Infogrames/Infogrames Europe - 4 Novotrade - NA & EU (mostly Hungarian devs, situated in US since early 90s) - 4 Psygnosis - 3 Traveller's Tales - 3 The Kremlin - 3 The Code Monkeys - 3 Oliver Twins - 3 Digital Illusions/DICE - 3 Coktel Vision - 3 Blue Byte - 3 Bit Managers - 3 Thalion/Thalion Software - 3 Vectordean - 3 Cryo Interactive Entertainment/Cryo Interactive - 3 Electronic Arts/EA - 3 Digital Image Design - 2 Team17 - 2 Attic Entertainment Software/Attic Entertainment - 2 Sales Curve Interactive/SCi - 2 Graftgold - 2 Big Red Software - 2 Rainbow Arts - 2 NMS Software - 2 New Frontier - 2 Millennium Interactive - 2 Eurocom Entertainment Software/Eurocom - 2 Bits Studios - 2 TecMagik - 2 Taito - 2 Revolution Software - 2 Chameleon - 2 Disney Software - 2
Games: Lemmings - 3 Fantastic Dizzy/The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy - 3 Flashback: The Quest for Identity - 2 Cannon Fodder - 2 Dune - 2 James Pond 2: Codename Robocod - 2 Kiwi Kraze/NewZealand Story - 2 Mega-Lo-Mania/Mega lo Mania/Tyrants - 2 Micro Machines - 2 Super Off Road - 2 Battletoads/Battletoads in Ragnarok's World - 2
1990-1994 JP: Systems: Mega Drive/Genesis - 189 Super Nintendo/Super Famicom - 187 Game Boy - 181 Nintendo Entertainment System - 166 Sega Master System - 58 Arcade - 52 Mega CD/Sega CD - 35 Game Gear - 19 PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 - 13 PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx CD - 10 Playstation - 8 Sharp X68000 - 7 PC-98 - 6 Neo Geo - 6 MSX - 4 Saturn - 3 PC DOS - 3 FM Towns - 2
Devs: Konami - 85 Capcom - 69 Sega - 42 Sega CS - 33 Taito - 20 Natsume - 20 Namco - 20 Hudson - 19 Tose/TOSE - 17 Koei - 17 Data East - 15 Compile - 14 Technos/Technos Japan - 13 HAL/HAL Labs/HAL Laboratory - 12 Sunsoft - 12 SIMS - 12 Tecmo - 11 Square/Squaresoft - 11 Wolf Team - 11 NCS - 11 Nintendo EAD - 11 Irem - 10 Now Production - 10 KID/Kid - 9 SNK - 9 Nintendo R&D1 - 8 Atlus - 8 Jaleco/Jaleco Entertainment - 8 Intelligent Systems - 8 Toaplan - 8 Aspect - 7 ITL - 7 Sega AM2 - 6 Falcom/Nihon Falcom - 6 Westone - 6 WinkySoft - 6 Kemco - 6 Culture Brain - 6 TechnoSoft - 6 Human Entertainment/Human - 6 Sonic Team - 5 ChunSoft - 5 VIC Tokai/Vic Tokai - 5 Game Freak - 4 Sega of America - 4 Quintet - 4 Copya System - 4 Opera House - 4 Hertz - 4 Minakuchi Engineering - 4 Pixel - 4 Ancient - 4 Sonic! Software Planning - 4 Micro Cabin/MicroCabin - 4 RED Entertainment - 4 Game Arts - 4 Treasure - 4 Shimada Kikaku - 4 Nintendo - 3 Banpresto - 3 Toei Animation - 3 Million - 3 Tamtex - 3 Aisystem Tokyo - 3 NMK - 3 Aicom - 3 Micronet - 3 Act Japan - 3 Climax Entertainment - 3 Sol - 3 T&E Soft - 3 Arc System Works - 3 Almanic/Givro - 3 Pax Softonica - 3 Sega Technical Institute - 2 Kaneko - 2 Atelier Double - 2 Quest - 2 Nippon Telenet - 2 Team Shinobi - 2 Sega R&D 1/Sega AM1 - 2 HOT-B - 2 Lenar - 2 Dual - 2 Hect - 2 Arsys Software - 2 Inter State - 2 Red Company - 2 Takeru - 2 Visco - 2 T's Music - 2 Sting - 2 Birthday - 2 ISCO - 2 Micronics - 2 Madhouse - 2 Graphic Research - 2 Riot - 2 Alfa System - 2 CRI - 2 Studio Alex - 2 Athena - 2 Bits Laboratory - 2 Broderbund - 2 MNM Software/M.N.M Software - 2 Produce - 2 Bullet Proof Software (?) - 2 AI - 2
Games: Ms. Pac-Man - 3 Parodius Da! - 3 Adventure Island II - 2 Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit/Aero Blasters - 2 Alien Storm - 2 Bomberman '94/Mega Bomberman - 2 Bonanza Bros - 2 Bonk's Adventure/BC Kid - 2 Fatal Fury 2 - 2 Felix the Cat - 2 Magic Sword - 2 Ridge Racer - 2 Rolling Thunder 2 - 2 Romance of the Three Kingdoms II - 2 Samurai Shodown - 2 Saturday Night Slam Masters - 2 Side Pocket - 2 Snow Brothers/Snow Bros. - 2 Sol-Deace/Sol-Feace - 2 Street Fighter II - 2 Sunset Riders - 2 Super Street Fighter II - 2 Tecmo Super Bowl - 2 Uncharted Waters (MD/SNES) - 2 Virtua Fighter - 2 Wonder Boy in Monster World/Monster World 3 (Dynastic Hero) - 2
1990-1994 NA: Systems: PC DOS - 180 Mega Drive/Genesis - 62 PC Windows - 29 Game Boy - 24 Amiga - 22 Nintendo Entertainment System - 17 Super Nintendo/Super Famicom - 16 Mega CD/Sega CD - 12 Arcade - 6 Sega Master System - 5 Macintosh - 3 Commodore 64 - 3 Atari ST - 3 3DO - 2
Devs: Sierra/Sierra Entertainment - 30 Origin - 15 Electronic Arts/EA - 12 id Software - 11 Microprose/MPS Labs - 11 Sculptured Software - 9 Dynamix - 9 Midway - 9 Strategic Simulations/SSI - 8 Westwood Studios - 8 New World Computing - 7 Interplay/Interplay Productions - 7 LucasArts - 7 Maxis - 6 Apogee Software - 6 Tengen - 6 Sega of America - 5 Silicon & Synapse/Blizzard Entertainment - 5 Electronic Arts/EA Canada - 4 Park Place Productions - 4 Lucasfilm Games - 4 The Learning Company/TLC - 4 Looking Glass Studios/Blue Sky Productions/LookingGlass Technologies - 4 Novotrade - 4 Disney Software - 4 Epic Games/Epic MegaGames - 4 Virgin Games/Virgin Interactive Entertainment - 4 Humongous Entertainment - 3 Broderbund - 3 Legend Entertainment - 3 Toys for Bob - 3 Activision - 3 3D Realms - 3 Imagineering - 3 Westwood Associates - 3 Visual Concepts - 3 Jeff Tunnell Productions - 3 Raven Software - 3 High Score Productions - 3 Technopop - 2 Cinemaware - 2 Atari - 2 Realtime Associates - 2 Sir-Tech Software - 2 Bullet-Proof Software - 2 Recreational Brainware - 2 Johnson Voorsanger Productions - 2 Color Dreams - 2 NMS Software (?) - 2 Wisdom Tree - 2 MECC/Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium - 2 Bitmasters (?) - 2 Kevin Ryan - 2 Blue Sky Software/BlueSky - 2 Sega Technical Institute - 2 JAM Productions - 2 Adept Software - 2 Digital Pictures - 2 Papyrus Design Group - 2 Granite Bay Software - 2 SimTex (?) - 2 Cyan/Cyan Worlds - 2 Nu Romantic Productions - 2 Malibu Interactive/Malibu - 2 Sega Interactive - 2 Foley Hi-Tech - 2 DreamForge Intertainment/DreamForge - 2
Games: Mortal Kombat II/Mortal Kombat 2 - 3 Rampart - 3 Adventures of Willy Beamish - 2 Disney's Aladdin (MD/DOS) - 2 Dune 2/Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty/Dune II: Battle for Arrakis - 2 Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep - 2 King's Quest I VGA - 2 Leisure Suit Larry 1 VGA - 2 Leisure Suit Larry 5 - 2 Leisure Suit Larry 6 - 2 Mortal Kombat - 2 Myst - 2 NBA Jam - 2 SimCity 2000/Sim City 2000 - 2 Sonic Spinball - 2 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Space Quest I VGA - 2 Space Quest V - 2 Star Control - 2 Star Wars: Tie Fighter/Star Wars: Tie Fighter CD-Rom ver. - 2 Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain! - 2 World Circuit/Formula One Grand Prix - 2
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Jan 2, 2021 7:48:47 GMT -5
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Post by teroknor on Jan 3, 2021 9:49:16 GMT -5
Grand Prix II is UK - again mainly by Geoff Crammond, with graphics and sound from MicroProse's UK studio. Transport Tycoon and TT Deluxe are by Chris Sawyer, who is Scottish. Woodruff and The Schnibble are by Coktel Vision, i.e. French.
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Jan 4, 2021 5:04:01 GMT -5
Oops, forgot to move Woodruff. Thanks again.
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Jan 4, 2021 9:49:41 GMT -5
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Jan 5, 2021 7:37:33 GMT -5
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Jan 7, 2021 8:23:21 GMT -5
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Jan 7, 2021 13:40:38 GMT -5
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Post by teroknor on Jan 8, 2021 7:01:42 GMT -5
Bizarre Creations (Formula 1) was based in Liverpool. And Privateer 2 (while bearing the Origin logo) was also developed in the UK, by a short-lived EA team in Manchester, who later founded Warthog.
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