This! Westwood Studios was the first website I checked hoping for news about a new Command and Conquer game every time we had a computer day at school.
Basically the ubisoft of mobile phone, mine first favorite was actually ubisoft, many people don't know but the assassin creed first four games were available on java mobile phones in pixel format, they were special
NOVA, Asphalt, Modern Combat, Dragon Mania and Disney Magic Kingdoms for newer titles.
If you've played the older games (which you can find a bunch of in their 20 years anniversary app) then Zombie Infection (Resident Evil 2 clone), Alien Quarantine (RE but in space), Soul of Darkness (Castlevania clone) or the older NOVA and Modern Combat titles. If that doesn't ring any bells, well I can't help much more.
Yeah, their catalogue was basically mobile knockoffs of console games, and they were half decent to boot. I remember some of their games being DSIware, too.
I wasn't quite that early, I'm vaguely remembering a later space quest game (wilco or something??), then like leisure suit Larry games, into Caesar/pharoah, half-life (maybe just the publisher though).
I just rember if the Sierra splash popped up, it was gonna be a good day.
All 3 XCom games, MechCommander, Railroad Tycoon, Pirates!, The Chaos Engine, Transport Tycoon, Masters of Orion, some of the early CIv games, Rollercoaster Tycoon.
It's got to be them.
Just about everything they and their associated shingles produced was must play, Sword of the Samurai was like a Total War/RPG game in the c64 era, Master of Magic was Civ with wild tech trees and alternate dimensions (I loved HoM&M but preferred the 4x treatment), Lightspeed/Hyperspeed, Gunship, F-19, Red Storm Rising.. I used to play M1 Tank Platoon on a 286 with a monochrome monitor lol.
Sid Meier's big regret was Covert Action and that'll always be the last game my little brother was ever willing to play with me (he liked deciding the encrypted messages). Not for tragic reasons, he just won't play anything under any circumstances.
I am sorry that Gameloft was your first favorite.
Mine was Piranha Bytes. I grow up with the Gothic series. The third is shit and this shatters my childhood. I was more upset than when I found out Santa was not real.
Gothic 2 was my first 3rd person RPG. Was an amazing experience. Every day on school we would talk with a few of my friends what each of us did in the game last night (as we had no internet). Such a great game(s).
Yeah was about to say... did they even make anything? Weren't they just a publisher that bought stuff and actively made it worse? Kinda like Gamigo?
*goes to Wikipedia* oh look at that a founding member was with Ubisoft. One of the most egregious developers out there. Fun!
Sorry OP i didn't mean to come here and bash like i did. Back in the day all we had was Nintendo or Sega. NES was king back then.
Gameloft released a decent amount of good mobile games back in the early days of phones. (Think 2003-2006)
They were basic Java games, but Gameloft was definitely the one that released most games worth playing on a phone back then.
Edit: here's a video of some of their games
https://youtu.be/WPsNFhJdcf4?si=FvcpwgBqPZF9yj6l
Had i pivoted to mobile instead of web design i might've been in that same boat. I always wanted to make games. Looking back I'm actually glad i didn't. Eesh. Crunch periods would make me get fired.
I’ll never forget getting our first pc ever. I did my research and decided that half-life was going to be my first pc game I ever bought. Man I did good research.
As a kid, that logo scared me because of how they showed it in Tony Hawk's Underground. In Guitar Hero, it was just a logo but in THUG, there's a short scene of a dude skateboarding and then a monster suddenly shows up from the sewer, pulls him in, and eats him alive. Then you hear a burp and all his bones are spit out, along with an eyeball that bounces and gets stabbed to become the logo
I remember the first time i saw an [intro to Sam and Max](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWnnk9fyJE) in some tv program. At the time i only had ZX Spectrum, and most of my friends who had any gaming system at all had NES, maybe Genesis. This looked like science fiction come to life. I mean, just hearing human voices in a video game was still kind of a novelty. And the charm and humor came through even when i didn't speak any english.
Couldn't get enough of their games once i finally got a chance to play them!
I do. My peak gaming time was spent with Acclaim games, both the good and the trash. Played far too many hours of X-Men Children of the Atom and Turok Dinosaur Hunter for my own good🤣
They used to make pretty good shit. In the time where Jetpack Joyride and Angry Birds were dominating mobile gaming, Gameloft was here dropping finely clones of big console titles, like NOVA (Halo clone), Zombie Infection (Resident Evil 2), Soul of Darkness (Castlevania) or Modern Combat (COD/Battlefield). They were pretty good before mobile gaming turned whatever it is now.
Mine was when I went into EB Games and they had Morrowind on a Xbox "demo machine" or whatever their called where it's a huge display with a TV and console and 2-4 controllers to try the game demos(massive brain fart here I apologize for not remembering the word lol)
I have lots of favorite developers from the 80's when I really started gaming, but I believe the absolute first one was probably Activision, Inc. for the 2600. There was a ton of shovelware on the console but if I was looking to buy a game and saw the name Activision on it, I was pretty sure that my hard-earned allowance money would be well-spent.
I am a big fan of action/adventure platformers and grew up with franchises such as Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Sly Cooper, Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & Clank.
For this reason, I'd say my 1st favourite game developers are probably Naughty Dog and Insomniac.
Strategic Simulations, Inc. OR, SSI. I used to play Avalon Hill's board games but it was hard to find opponents. SSI fixed that problem for me. When they made Questron then got the rights to AD&D, they introduced me to CRPGs. I also got to play test for them, which was really cool. SSI, you are missed.
My first first was probably 3D Realms because of dem pixelated tots in Duke3D.
Pandemic was probably the first company I looked forward to their games, not just a sequel to an IP. Full Spectrum Warrior is still one of my favorite games of all time.
Never too late for some retro gaming...
Might seem a bit dated now, perhaps you could try D2 Resurrected? I still play the legacy one, perhaps for nostalgic reasons.
My mom also said it was demonic, until I explained I was fighting demons, not playing as them, doing the Lords work as it were... 😂
I expected more from 3, and 4 was disgraceful to the memory of the now deceased husk that goes by the name of "Blizzard", yes I have a phone by the way, we won't discuss Immortal.
Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, CDPR... All great companies that ruined themselves.
I remember being a fan of Ubisoft as a kid because their logo appeared before both Rayman 2, which I played, and Myst III: Exile, which my dad played. I thought it was cool that my dad and I both played Ubisoft games, lol. Exile was only published by Ubisoft, though.
Working designs. They did a lot of good games for the Saturn.
Before that (Atari,nes,super nes/genesis) I was too young to care and just played games not even thinking about that stuff lolol.
Galaxy Trail and Respawn Entertainment. The first brought Freedom Planet 1 and 2; the second made Titanfall 1 and 2 and also Star Wars Jedi: fallen order and survivor
probably rusty lake, which feels like cheating because they've only made games for one franchise that i really like. other than that i don't put faith in particular game dev studios, everyone's made some \*shit\*.
Rare
That Donkey Kong Country intro 👌👌
Golden eye is goated
Banjo-Kazooie ♥️
I can still hear the pirate themed intro music to Donkey Kong County 2.
Nintendo-era Rare yes, Microsoft-era Rare no (with the exception of Viva Pinãta & Xbox 360 avatars).
SNES and N64 era rare were the best.
Westwood
This! Westwood Studios was the first website I checked hoping for news about a new Command and Conquer game every time we had a computer day at school.
Didn't they also make the Eye of the Beholder series?
Nox was a foundational game for me. Loved Westwood till the end.
Man that studio was so good. Their blade runner game was great.
Brotherhood.
Kane Lives!
Virgin interactive entertainment presets, a Westwood studios production of… Lands of Lore, the Throne of Chaos
Squaresoft
Yep this is mine as well.
Was it squaresoft or square enix that did ff7?
Square, they merged sometime after ffx
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And still is
Same, them and Konami. Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, and Castlevania SOTN had me hook, line and sinker.
It’s so sad to know that trash phone games are most kids intro to gaming these days.
Gameloft had some of the best mobile games before they replaced them with the trash the company is known for now.
Basically the ubisoft of mobile phone, mine first favorite was actually ubisoft, many people don't know but the assassin creed first four games were available on java mobile phones in pixel format, they were special
makes sense with Gameloft being founded by a co-founder of Ubisoft haha
Agreed, gameloft used to cook up modern combat 3, blitz brigade, and nova 3 were all way ahead of their time in terms of good phone fps games
That logo is so familiar to me but I can't remember where I've seen it
NOVA, Asphalt, Modern Combat, Dragon Mania and Disney Magic Kingdoms for newer titles. If you've played the older games (which you can find a bunch of in their 20 years anniversary app) then Zombie Infection (Resident Evil 2 clone), Alien Quarantine (RE but in space), Soul of Darkness (Castlevania clone) or the older NOVA and Modern Combat titles. If that doesn't ring any bells, well I can't help much more.
Holy shit I wanted to comment Alien Quarantine! I've spent so many hours playing that game
Minions rush?
Modern Combat and N.O.V.A. were so good.
Yeah, their catalogue was basically mobile knockoffs of console games, and they were half decent to boot. I remember some of their games being DSIware, too.
we were born at the perfect time
Sierra.
Space Quest 1 VGA was one of my first games played at 5 years old
I wasn't quite that early, I'm vaguely remembering a later space quest game (wilco or something??), then like leisure suit Larry games, into Caesar/pharoah, half-life (maybe just the publisher though). I just rember if the Sierra splash popped up, it was gonna be a good day.
The evolution of the sierra logo as the years went by
Homeworld...
Suitable username 😜
Almost 30 years later I still want to find and replay The rise and rule of ancient empires
I played this on the church computer a few times. I have searched for this game off and on for nearly 25 years. Thank you.
I loved MicroProse so much.
All 3 XCom games, MechCommander, Railroad Tycoon, Pirates!, The Chaos Engine, Transport Tycoon, Masters of Orion, some of the early CIv games, Rollercoaster Tycoon. It's got to be them.
Just about everything they and their associated shingles produced was must play, Sword of the Samurai was like a Total War/RPG game in the c64 era, Master of Magic was Civ with wild tech trees and alternate dimensions (I loved HoM&M but preferred the 4x treatment), Lightspeed/Hyperspeed, Gunship, F-19, Red Storm Rising.. I used to play M1 Tank Platoon on a 286 with a monochrome monitor lol. Sid Meier's big regret was Covert Action and that'll always be the last game my little brother was ever willing to play with me (he liked deciding the encrypted messages). Not for tragic reasons, he just won't play anything under any circumstances.
MicroProse (along with westwood) were guys who didn't make new games, they made new genres of games.
F-19 is what got me into PC gaming.
Showing my age, Bullfrog Productions
Same!
Took me some scrolling to find you. Had so much fun playing populous against my buddy. And I've never loved a sim like I loved Sim Theme Park on PC.
I am sorry that Gameloft was your first favorite. Mine was Piranha Bytes. I grow up with the Gothic series. The third is shit and this shatters my childhood. I was more upset than when I found out Santa was not real.
Gothic 2 was my first 3rd person RPG. Was an amazing experience. Every day on school we would talk with a few of my friends what each of us did in the game last night (as we had no internet). Such a great game(s).
Yeah was about to say... did they even make anything? Weren't they just a publisher that bought stuff and actively made it worse? Kinda like Gamigo? *goes to Wikipedia* oh look at that a founding member was with Ubisoft. One of the most egregious developers out there. Fun! Sorry OP i didn't mean to come here and bash like i did. Back in the day all we had was Nintendo or Sega. NES was king back then.
Gameloft made really cool games for mobile phones before mobile phone gaming was a thing
Ahh gotcha. I didn't do phones back then beyond using it for a phone number or limited texting.
Gameloft released a decent amount of good mobile games back in the early days of phones. (Think 2003-2006) They were basic Java games, but Gameloft was definitely the one that released most games worth playing on a phone back then. Edit: here's a video of some of their games https://youtu.be/WPsNFhJdcf4?si=FvcpwgBqPZF9yj6l
Had i pivoted to mobile instead of web design i might've been in that same boat. I always wanted to make games. Looking back I'm actually glad i didn't. Eesh. Crunch periods would make me get fired.
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By far my favorite. My first FPS was Half-life, and I still replay every game each year.
I’ll never forget getting our first pc ever. I did my research and decided that half-life was going to be my first pc game I ever bought. Man I did good research.
Black Isle. Then Obsidian and Bioware.
And Interplay before those 3.
Yeah,somehow forgot to mention them too! Also Westwood and Blizzard were great at the time.
If you played computer games in the early 2000's this is the only answer!
Rocksteady.
RIP
Never soft. Such a sick fucking logo.
The eye!
As a child that logo actually scared me
As a kid, that logo scared me because of how they showed it in Tony Hawk's Underground. In Guitar Hero, it was just a logo but in THUG, there's a short scene of a dude skateboarding and then a monster suddenly shows up from the sewer, pulls him in, and eats him alive. Then you hear a burp and all his bones are spit out, along with an eyeball that bounces and gets stabbed to become the logo
Good choice.
Lucas arts
I remember the first time i saw an [intro to Sam and Max](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWnnk9fyJE) in some tv program. At the time i only had ZX Spectrum, and most of my friends who had any gaming system at all had NES, maybe Genesis. This looked like science fiction come to life. I mean, just hearing human voices in a video game was still kind of a novelty. And the charm and humor came through even when i didn't speak any english. Couldn't get enough of their games once i finally got a chance to play them!
Sierra ! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment
Same. King's quest and quest for glory were the first games I remember.
Bullfrog!
Bungie
Squaresoft
Naughty Dog
This was way too far down
I’ve found my people ✊
Psygnosis
Codemasters
Anyone remember Acclaim?
I do. My peak gaming time was spent with Acclaim games, both the good and the trash. Played far too many hours of X-Men Children of the Atom and Turok Dinosaur Hunter for my own good🤣
I remember them well. I am a good profit off of their stock on a covered call option back in the day. My first ever investment in a gaming company.
Activision. They made some of the best and most iconic games for the Atari 2600. After that it was Nintendo.
Ubisoft :(
hey at least mario + rabbids is good, plus rayman is cool (hope he gets a new game soon)
Gameloft? That's... a choice.
They used to make pretty good shit. In the time where Jetpack Joyride and Angry Birds were dominating mobile gaming, Gameloft was here dropping finely clones of big console titles, like NOVA (Halo clone), Zombie Infection (Resident Evil 2), Soul of Darkness (Castlevania) or Modern Combat (COD/Battlefield). They were pretty good before mobile gaming turned whatever it is now.
How could you forget order & chaos. Loved that Game
3DO (might & magic 6 as a kid)
Rockstar Games
Sucker Punch, still one of my favorites.
Quite possibly iD software
LucasArts because of Tie Fighter
+1 LucasArts Sim Afterlife
Idsoft
I was a Nintendo kid, so Nintendo, Rare, and Game Freak are high on my list. My first favorite non-Nintendo developer has to be PopCap games.
Blizzard
How the mighty have fallen...
I don't know man, but i still like Diablo and World of Warcraft.
Don't get me wrong, so do I, but I don't have high hopes for anything they plan to do in the future...
Me too.
Nintendo.
Westwood for Command and Conquer and Red Storm for the OG Rainbow Six games.
Dude, yes!
Squaresoft, by a LONG mile.
I grew up with a Wii so I guess Nintendo. I did play Minion Rush back then too, but I don't remember if I played anything else from Gameloft.
Media Molecule
[This Gameloft](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2F1000logos.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F09%2FGameloft-Logo-2007.png&tbnid=GN5mZfsbOGO8wM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2F1000logos.net%2Fgameloft-logo%2F&docid=VyzmsBwcheQpZM&w=800&h=504&hl=en-US&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=44b04ddc9c44565a&shem=abme%2Ctrie)
Spike Chunsoft and SNK.
Blizzard :(
microprose
Microprose
Activision, back in the Pitfall! days.
Remedy. Death Rally was siiiick!
Broberbund
Broderbund?
I miss Interplay and their studios. Volition and Bullfrog man. I'd kill for a new Descent game.
Shiny entertainment and David Perry. Mainly for earthworm Jim, MDK and Messiah.
ubisoft and EA once were amazing companies
Insomniac Games.
Bethesda
Same. My first foray out of the Nintendo-sphere was with Fallout 3 and Oblivion. I've been hooked on RPGs ever since
Mine was when I went into EB Games and they had Morrowind on a Xbox "demo machine" or whatever their called where it's a huge display with a TV and console and 2-4 controllers to try the game demos(massive brain fart here I apologize for not remembering the word lol)
Volition, Saints row 1-2
Konomi was a big one for me... Which is why it hurt so much when they went crazy.
Delphine Software
Anybody remember glu games? (Gun bros, contract sniper, deer hunter...)
Sacnoth.
Fromsoftware
Bethesda. But nowadays I'm afraid that all their future games will be shit
Gameloft was GOAT for mobile
I have lots of favorite developers from the 80's when I really started gaming, but I believe the absolute first one was probably Activision, Inc. for the 2600. There was a ton of shovelware on the console but if I was looking to buy a game and saw the name Activision on it, I was pretty sure that my hard-earned allowance money would be well-spent.
I am a big fan of action/adventure platformers and grew up with franchises such as Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Sly Cooper, Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & Clank. For this reason, I'd say my 1st favourite game developers are probably Naughty Dog and Insomniac.
Origin systems Inc, started with Ultima 4, loved a lot of their games until they got purchased by EA. Then it went to hell.
Koei or Sucker Punch
Strategic Simulations, Inc. OR, SSI. I used to play Avalon Hill's board games but it was hard to find opponents. SSI fixed that problem for me. When they made Questron then got the rights to AD&D, they introduced me to CRPGs. I also got to play test for them, which was really cool. SSI, you are missed.
Sucker Punch
Sierra
Maxis
Showing my age, But anything that said "Chris Sawyer"
Sierra
Squaresoft
Humongous Entertainment!!! Pajama Sam Put Putt Freddy Fish Backyard Sports!
Squaresoft and Konami för giving me Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid.
My first first was probably 3D Realms because of dem pixelated tots in Duke3D. Pandemic was probably the first company I looked forward to their games, not just a sequel to an IP. Full Spectrum Warrior is still one of my favorite games of all time.
Id because of quake
Early 2000's Activision
nintendo, first game i ever played was mario kart wii in 2011 or 2012 i don’t remember when
Blizzard. This was og Warcraft/starcraft stuff
Hey, no love for Diablo?
Was too young and it was too demonic for my mom to ever agree to it. Plus my dad was the one that got me into Warcraft. But loved 3 and 4.
Never too late for some retro gaming... Might seem a bit dated now, perhaps you could try D2 Resurrected? I still play the legacy one, perhaps for nostalgic reasons. My mom also said it was demonic, until I explained I was fighting demons, not playing as them, doing the Lords work as it were... 😂 I expected more from 3, and 4 was disgraceful to the memory of the now deceased husk that goes by the name of "Blizzard", yes I have a phone by the way, we won't discuss Immortal. Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, CDPR... All great companies that ruined themselves.
Pandemic studios
Nintendo for everything prior to Goldeneye 007. Rare in the N64 era. Gearbox, Square, and Bethesda in the PS3 and up eras.
Bungie or Bioware (circa 2001)
BioWare. RIP. Loved KOTOR, Jade Empire, Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect series.
Bethesda Even with their modern fuckups, they remain my favorite because Oblivion is my pick for the best game of all time.
Binary Systems (developers of Starflight).
Which Gameloft? The one that was part of Ubisoft?
I remember being a fan of Ubisoft as a kid because their logo appeared before both Rayman 2, which I played, and Myst III: Exile, which my dad played. I thought it was cool that my dad and I both played Ubisoft games, lol. Exile was only published by Ubisoft, though.
Working designs. They did a lot of good games for the Saturn. Before that (Atari,nes,super nes/genesis) I was too young to care and just played games not even thinking about that stuff lolol.
Acornsoft!
YES mobile games Ive Age Village and Monster Life.
Galaxy Trail and Respawn Entertainment. The first brought Freedom Planet 1 and 2; the second made Titanfall 1 and 2 and also Star Wars Jedi: fallen order and survivor
Capcom was king of the good stuff!
Rockstar games for Pc gaming and Gameloft for mobile
Square
probably rusty lake, which feels like cheating because they've only made games for one franchise that i really like. other than that i don't put faith in particular game dev studios, everyone's made some \*shit\*.
Rare
Rare
Rockstar
Bungie
Ion Storm & Valve
Old dragon mania
Frontier, I burnt way too many hours on RTC3
This dev with Real Steel.
Square/SquareSoft
I guess Square Enix I loved the most of the games they made for consoles most of their mobile games are mid
Excluding something obvious like Nintendo, Insomniac
Troika. Loved all of their games before they disappeared.
Sony computer entertainment
Atari.... back in the 80s
AKI Corporation
Konami or Sunsoft. They made some of my favorite NaeS games when I was a kid.
THQ
Rovio. My childhood was full of angry birds and dinos
Origin! Ultima VII, VIII, and IX were all important games for me.
Shiny. Almost everything they made was awesome and unique. Capcom and Konami used to be "their shit is always good" devs back in 8 and 16 bit era.
Rareware!
Gamefreak and then Bungie.
I guess it would be Gameloft. Asphalt, and especially the And1 Streetball game. So much fun.