Games

Software-Houses

• Alligata Software
• AMSOFT
• Anco Software
• Anirog
• Ariola Soft
• Beau Jolly
• Cobra Soft
• Codemasters
• CRL
• CRONOSOFT
• Digital Integration
• Dinamic
• DMV
• Domark
• Durell
• Electric Dreams
• Electronic Arts
• Elite Systems
• Epyx
• Firebird
• ERE Informatique
• Grandslam
• Gremlin Graphics
• Hewson
• Hi-Tec Software
• Image Works
• Imagine
• Incentive
• Infocom
• Infogrames
• Konami
• Krisalis
• Kuma Computers
• Loriciel
• Lankhor
• Leisure Genius
• Level 9
• Magic Bytes
• Magnetic Scrolls
• Martec
• Mastertronic
• MBC
• Melbourne House
• Microids
• Microprose
• Microstyle
• Mikro-Gen
• Mindscape
• Mirrorsoft
• New Age Software
• Ocean
• Opera Soft
• Palace Software
• Players
• PSS
• Psygnosis
• Radical Software
• Rainbird
• Rainbow Arts
• Silmarils
• System 3
• The Edge
• Titus Software
• Topo Soft
• Tynesoft
• Ubi Soft
• Ultimate Play The Game
• US Gold
• Virgin
• Vortex Software
• Weeske
• Zeppelin Games
• Zigurat

Games Which use hardware tricks

Useful if you want to dissect games to work out how they did it.

Please move to somewhere more appropiate

Hardware Scrolling

• R3 used to make smoother horizontal scroll
• R5 used to make smoother vertical scroll

Title	Year	Vertical	Horizontal	R3	R5	Confirmed
Action Force		No	Yes	No	No
Builderland		No	Yes	No	No
FlySpy		Yes	Yes	No	No
Ghosts 'n' Goblins		No	Yes	No	No
Led Storm		Yes	No	No	No
Legend of Kage		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mission Genocide		Yes	No	No	Yes
Octoplex		No	Yes	No	No
Prehistorik 2	1992	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rick Dangerous 2		No	Yes	No	No
Super Cauldron	1992	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Titan		Yes	Yes	No	No
Turrican		Yes	Yes	No	No

Rupture

A technique for breaking the screen into more than one block vertically. Can be used to hardware scroll one part of the screen while another is static.

Title	Year	Confirmed
Action Force
Enlightenment: Druid 2
Grell and Falla
Octoplex
Prehistorik 2	1992
Snowstrike
Super Cauldron	1992
Turrican
Usagi Yojimbo