What Game Devs Do You Miss?

Going back as far as you can remember, what game developers or even publishers do you have fond memories of & wish would make a come-back?

I would start with:

EPYX

Accolade

Cinemaware

Polarware

Br0derbund

Psygnosis

Magnetic Scrolls

Looking Glass

Midway

I didn't recognize a single name from this thread. 
 
I'm not gonna pretend like I've known developers for decades, so I really don't have an answer. Valve, Rockstar and DICE are still alive and kicking, so I'm satisfied.

Old Rare.

3D Realms.
 
No, seriously.

Factor 5

Looking Glass. The Thief games are veritable masterpieces of level-design and atmospheric implementation. Jeez, Thief: Dark Project and Thief II: The Metal Age are two of the most memorable video games on the PC.

Cavia.

Black Isle

Squaresoft

Troika

Whenever I see a thread like this I always think of Colony Wars by Psygnosis. I really liked those games though I wonder if they hold up today.

Impressions Games made a few gems.

Bullfrog.

Westwood i guess, before they got abosrbed into EA and disappeared.

@Shirogane said:

Bullfrog.

Westwood i guess, before they got abosrbed into EA and disappeared.

Bullfrog is still around, they just call it Lionhead now :P

@ballblaster said:

@Shirogane said:

Bullfrog.

Westwood i guess, before they got abosrbed into EA and disappeared.

Bullfrog is still around, they just call it Lionhead now :P

Bah that doesn't count! Fable and Black and White or Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper? HUGE difference!

• Cavia
• Bullfrog
• Square
• Enix
• Psygnosis

Acclaim. I want more poorly made ECW games.

Bizarre Creations. Geometry Wars is still the best game on XBLA. And Blur was criminally ignored.

Mindscape I loved 'Creatures'

Pandemic. I have this weird obsession with the first Mercenaries game.

Old Rare and Bizarre Creations. :(

Looking Glass, Troika (Arcanum), Surreal Software (Drakan: AG and The Suffering), Ensemble (Age of Empires),

Also Square and Enix, whatever happened to them?

So many of these

Also Smilebit.

Free Radical, before they got bought and had to make Homefront 2.

Also Pandemic and old Rare.

DMA designs... what ever happened to those guys

Origin.

Edit: Oh, and does early Lucas Arts count?

Interplay (and the studios they owned like Black Isle). They did some great things with that infinite engine Bioware developed.

@JJOR64 said:

Old Rare.

Bullfrog, Psygnosis, Black Isle.

@JJOR64 said:

Old Rare.

This.

Deadline Games, the fine makers of Total Overdose. Also, from what I've read, early nineties id Software always sounds like Disneyland to me: the best place in the whole world.

Yes - Free Radical. I'm playing Timesplitters Future Perfect right now and it's so good. You wait before killing people in case they have something funny to say. Any my friend married one of the animators and has his face on one of the pedestrians in the Blade Runner level of 2, so I'm a bit biased.

• Black Isle
• Old Rare
• Factor 5
• Ensemble Studios
• Squaresoft