Company:Synergistic Software
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| Industry | Video games |
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| Fate | Purchased by Sierra On-Line |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Founder | Robert Clardy Ann Dickens Clardy |
| Defunct | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Seattle , United States |
Synergistic Software was a video game developer based in Seattle. Founded in 1978, the company published some of the earliest available games and applications for the Apple II family of computers. They continued developing games for various platforms into the late 1990s.
History
Synergistic was founded in 1978 by Robert Clardy and Ann Dickens Clardy.[citation needed] They developed the Dungeons & Dragons-inspired Dungeon Campaign / Wilderness Campaign game, which was later expanded and repackaged as Odyssey.
Synergistic also published a number of business applications, including a word processor and simple database program, called The Modifiable Database.[1]
Synergistic was acquired by Sierra On-Line in 1996. They maintained their identity as an independent development group within Sierra until the studio was closed on February 22, 1999.[2]
Software
Campaign-Adventure series
- Dungeon Campaign (1978)
- Wilderness Campaign (1979)
- Odyssey (1980)
- Apventure to Atlantis (1982)
World Builders engine series
- War in Middle Earth (1988)
- Spirit of Excalibur (1990)
- Vengeance of Excalibur (1991)
- Conan (1991)
- Warriors of Legend (1993)
Non-games
- Higher Text II (1980)
- Data Reporter (1981)
Other games
- Escape from Arcturus (1981)
- Bolo (1982)
- Crisis Mountain (1982)
- Probe One: The Transmitter (1982)
- Microbe (1983)
- The Fool's Errand (1986), MS-DOS port
- Pitstop II (1984), Atari 8-bit port
- Thexder (1985), MS-DOS port
- Rockford (1988)
- SideWinder (1988)
- Silpheed (1988), MS-DOS & Apple IIGS ports
- The Third Courier (1989)
- Low Blow (1990)
- LA Law (1992)
- The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
- Homey D. Clown (1993)
- Super Battleship (1993)
- Spectre (1994)
- Carrier Aces (1995)
- Air Cavalry (1995)
- Thexder 95 (1995)
- Front Page Sports (1996)
- Triple Play 97 (1996)
- Birthright - The Gorgon's Alliance (1997)
- Diablo (1997)
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