11 Beloved PC Games Studios That Had Fallen

[Zenoth]

I made a fast search and found this list of game developers. It is color-based to recognize the ones that have been closed. Just looking at the list now brings back some good (and bad) memories, I almost forgot about many of them. It just shows the "cycle" and nature of competition and business (or any other business out there), they come and they go, empires rise and fall. I believe the next big name to go will be BioWare... which is already "gone" for some gamers out there and only still exist merely by name.

 

[dud]

OP, thanks for posting this ... I really enjoyed the drive down memory lane. I still remember the first game I ever played ... Moon Lander on a (get this) PDP 11 mainframe. No graphics ... just words and numbers. I used an old teletypewriter. I was hooked from then on ...

 

[Anteaus]

I used to love getting InterAction magazine from Sierra. I can't remember how many free subscriptions I recieved over the years just for registering games.

 

[Anteaus]

Spectrum Holobyte. Long live Falcon! I think I still have a copy of Vette somewhere.

 

[Albatross]

Is Cyan still around?

 

[you2]

not even that list mentions sirteck; maybe i was the only one who heard of them ?

I made a fast search and found this list of game developers. It is color-based to recognize the ones that have been closed. Just looking at the list now brings back some good (and bad) memories, I almost forgot about many of them. It just shows the "cycle" and nature of competition and business (or any other business out there), they come and they go, empires rise and fall. I believe the next big name to go will be BioWare... which is already "gone" for some gamers out there and only still exist merely by name.

 

[iamwiz82]

I would add Microprose.

And what happened to Black Isle?

I love Microprose and Sid Meier. It was good to see him get the rights to his games again with Take 2.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

not even that list mentions sirteck; maybe i was the only one who heard of them ?

Sir-Tech.

Wizardry series, Jagged Alliance series, Realms of Arkania series, back in the day they were the best RPG studio around.

 

[BladeVenom]

Seriously how could they leave out Microprose and SSI?

 

[Geosurface]

They got the release year for Deus Ex wrong in that slideshow.

 

[ad3pt7]

Bullfrog Productions! Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2 were purely awesome games. That just made me nostalgia pretty hard lol.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Is Bungie still around? I loved the Myth series...

 

[werepossum]

3d realms, acclaim, atomic, bitmap brothers, black isle, broderbund, cavedog, colorado computer creations, dynamix, epyx, midway, mindscape, pandemic, papyrus, talonsoft, troika, ssi, stormfront, ...not to mention dozens that were absorbed and for all practical purposes dead.

AI Design - I must have worn out four or five Rogue floppies before I got tired of re-buying the same game.

Dragons and potions and jewels, oh my, in sixteen glorious shades of amber!

 

[Svnla]

OP, thanks for posting this ... I really enjoyed the drive down memory lane. I still remember the first game I ever played ... Moon Lander on a (get this) PDP 11 mainframe. No graphics ... just words and numbers. I used an old teletypewriter. I was hooked from then on ...

You are welcome.

I am the same way. I love to go back to a few years ago and remind myself how much fun games were. A lot of "playability" and fun factors without all of the gimmicks and graphics from current games.

 

[VashHT]

Is Bungie still around? I loved the Myth series...

They might as well be counted as dead, I don't know what they're doing after the whole halo thing but they're not making another myth game like they should be.

 

[nightspydk]

Blackisle reborn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Isle_Studios

It's more the people involved and they tend to move on, just they get in with bad influences.

As far as I see it the problem is more that games have become major business more so than hollywood and then the little details gets neglected. Those small things that together make for a great game. The best games today are done by nerds that got to much time on their hands.

 

[exar333]

This thread makes me sad.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

A surprisingly good list actually, defied my expectations as an old school gamer.

 

[Borealis7]

when this list is done again in 10 years Blizzard will be on it

 

[lupi]

blizzard has become responsibile for well over 3/4 of activision profit, more likely activision will be on it first.