Your top 5 favorite dead/defunct developers?

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Originally posted by xS
What about Quest? I think Square brought them out.

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Oddly enough Square bought them at their own request. But no, Quest still exists, they're just under new ownership. Which might suck. Look what happened to Access...

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Originally posted by Kinopio
They are under the name Eighting now.

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They have always been Eighting/Raizing. Since like... 1992 or something. There's been no change.

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Originally posted by Frogacuda

They have always been Eighting/Raizing. There's been no change.

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I'm just saying that they don't go under the name raizing anymore, or so it seems that way to me, and thats what a guy who works for Nintendo told me. Although it was for Nintendo of Australia, so take that for what you will.

Westone
Looking Glass Studios
Epyx
Data East
NEC Avenue

Sega Technical Institute.:(

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Originally posted by Kinopio
I'm just saying that they don't go under the name raizing anymore, or so it seems that way to me, and thats what a guy who works for Nintendo told me. Although it was for Nintendo of Australia, so take that for what you will.

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I've seen Raizing referenced with regard to Kururin and Bloody Roar on Gamespot and such. But with regard to what's official you might be right.

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Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
Epyx

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Oh hell yeah, I forgot about them. Although they exist pretty much intact at Midway.

Westone
Team Andromeda


I don't consider SNK dead. ;)

How could Epyx possibly be intact at Midway? It was Atari Corp. that owned them not Atari Games.

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Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
How could Epyx possibly be intact at Midway? It was Atari Corp. that owned them not Atari Games.

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When Atari went kaput all the developers (including the former Epyx guys) went to Midway's arcade division, while everything else went to hasbro. I forget which games in particular they worked on. I recall them being pretty crapy, actually...


Also, does anyone know exactly what happened to Westone? They were supposedly working on some DC game for a long time, and then their site just vanished and it never came to be,

Interesting.

Given the relative low quality of recent Midway games, it seems the former Epyx people have lost their touch.

Epyx/Atari had a couple musicians I'd like to check up on. LX Rudis or Bob Vierra I think... made some really great tunes on the Lynx.

Edit: He's not even in the game industry anymore. Feh