What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?

deegeese, 6 months ago

MicroProse and Sierra Online were my faves

Telorand, 6 months ago

I always forget about Sierra, and they were good, too!

MentalEdge, 6 months ago

Psygnosis, later known as Studio Liverpool.

Sony shut them down a few years ago. Man seeing that old owl logo hits me hard in the nostalgia bone.

BlameThePeacock, 6 months ago

Harmless games, also bought and shut down by Sony.

MentalEdge, 6 months ago

They seem to consider only massive franchises like GoW and TLoU and Horizon worth their time… But most gamers need variety outside the mainstream game genres, so I don’t see why they are shutting down anything with a smaller fanbase.

Telorand, 6 months ago

Maybe those smaller teams create tools or assets (or maybe it’s the team itself) that they want.

Capitalists can’t let anyone have fun when there’s profit to be made.

xilliah, 6 months ago

Drakan :D

admin, 6 months ago

Atari

perishthethought, 6 months ago

In which era? For me it all started with Combat on the 2600 and I’ve been a vidiot ever since.

Grimpen, 6 months ago

Interplay, Microprobe, Sierra On-Line, Bullfrog, Dynamix, Origin, all long gone.

Activision is still around, but it’s something completely different. Same with Atari (although theres a nostalgia brand now, so maybe back).

Of them all, I think is have to say I’m most nostalgic for Sierra On-Line, although Origin gives them a run for most nostalgic.

anteaters, 6 months ago

Dynamix’ Earthsiege was such a magical thing back then. So were Bullfrog’s Syndicate, Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper. Many, many years ago when Peter Molyneux was not a dumbass but gave us gems like Populous and Black&White.

The list of games that EA has destroyed is long.

Grimpen, 6 months ago

I loved Earthsiege! IIRC I got the game with an expansion card (STI Lightning 128?), and it really was fun playing with my first flight stick, a CH Products flight stick.

aksdb, 6 months ago

Westwood fits into that list.

pbjamm, 6 months ago

I worked for Interplay back in the 90s. It was pretty great for me, launching my IT career. Working in QA did temporarily ruin my ability to play games for fun though.