The 1970s was the decade where the video game industry was born. From Atari's revolutionary releases to pioneering arcade developers, this era laid the foundation for everything that followed.
Companies like Atari, Magnavox, and Fairchild Semiconductor took the first steps into interactive entertainment, creating the legendary games and systems that sparked a global phenomenon.
These early developers faced the challenge of working with extremely limited hardware, yet managed to create gaming experiences that captivated audiences worldwide and defined an entire medium.
An American game developer founded in 1986 as a sister company to Absolute Entertainment, founded by ex-Activision programmers Alex DeMeo, Dan Kitchen, Garry Kitchen and John Van Ryzin.
A British budget games company which went into the fray in the late 80's, with a mixture of original titles and re-releases of other developers and publishers software.
The other major publisher for the US TurboGrafx-16 and TurboGrafx-CD consoles. NEC Home Electronics passed over publishing duties to TTI in 1991, and TTI would publish the majority of TurboGrafx-16/CD games until the console's demise in 1994.
A game localization and publishing company based in Shibuya that will be forever remembered for its peerless work on Fire Emblem: Awakening, Imagine: Make-up Artist and Petz Hamsterz Bunch. Named after the final level in Super Mario Bros (8-4).
Marvelous, formerly known as Marvelous AQL and Marvelous Entertainment Inc. is a multinational corporation that produces video games.
Internal Sega studio formed by the merging of Sega Rosso and Hitmaker.
