MicroProse Software (also known as MicroProse Simulation Software ) was an american company of edition and development of Video games. Founded in 1982 by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey, the company was quickly made known for its air, military or automobile simulations and its strategy games. It in particular published successfully creations of Sid Meier, like Silent Service , Pirates! , Civilization and X-COM .
History
With the beginning of the year 1980, MicroProse was mainly known as editor of flight simulators for the computers 8-bits the such Commodore 64, the APPLE II and the Atari. In second half of the decade, MicroProse moved on the ground of the PC, the Amiga and the Atari ST, while starting to publish a certain number of strategy games.
In 1990 and 1991, MicroProse published Railroad Tycoon and Civilization , which became the two strategy games most sold with the world. However, the company encountered financial problems because of the publication of a great number of titles in a saturated market.
In 1993, MicroProse was bought by Spectrum Holobyte . The two marks coexisted until in 1996, date on which the company amalgamated exclusively under MicroProse . Sid Meier left the company after the repurchase to found Firaxis Games .
In 1998, Microprose was bought by Hasbro Interactive . In 1999, the latter closed the studios of MicroProse in California and North Carolina.
In 2001, after the repurchase of Hasbro Interactive by Infogrames (now Atari ), the label was closed. The studio of original development of the company, with Hunt Valley in the Maryland, was closed in November 2003.
Principal titles
- NATO To order
- Spitfire Ace
- Crusade in Europe
- Decision in the Serves
- F-15 Strike Eagle
- Kennedy Approach
- Silent Service
- Solo Flight
- Conflict in Vietnam
- Gunship
- Airborne To arrange
- F-19 Stealth Fighter
- Pirate!
- Red Storm Rising
- F-15 Strike Eagle II
- Microprose Pro Soccer
- Midwinter
- Stunt Because Racer
- Sword off the Samurai
- Betrayal
- Knights off the Sky
- Lightspeed
- M1 Tank Platoon
- Railroad Tycoon
- Covert Action
- Silent Service II
- Formulated One Grand Prix (aka World Circuit)
- Gunship 2000
- Hyperspeed
- Midwinter II: Flames off Freedom
- MicroProse Golf
- Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0
- Civilization
- B-17 Flying Fortress
- Challenge off the Five Realms
- Darklands
- Harrier Jump Jet
- Land Sea and Air
- Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
- BloodNet
- Dogfight: 80 Years off Aerial Warfare
- Fields off Glory
- Fleet Defender
- Colonization
- The Legacy: Realm off Terror
- M1 Tank Platoon
- 1942: The Pacific Air War
- Dragonsphere
- Transport Tycoon
- Colonization
- X-COM
- Across the Rhine
- Grand Prix Manager
- Machiavelli the Prince
- Master off Magic
- Grand Prix Manager 2
- Civilization II
- 7th Legion
- Conquer the World
- Magic: The Gathering
- European Air War
- Falcon 4.0
- M1 Tank Platoon 2
- Avalon Hill' S Diplomacy
- Grand Prix World
- European Air War
- Grand Prix 3
- Grand Prix 4
See too
External bonds
- a list of the majority of the plays MicroProse
- Entered MicroProse on MobyGames
- History of MicroProse on MobyGames
- MicroProse Miscellaneous Ranges Web Boxing ring
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