Video Game Companies
Particularly before the Video Game Crash of 1983, video games were historically considered part of the home video market, and video stores today continue to sell video games. These are the companies that developed and/or distributed those games, some of which released their own traditional home video product as well.
Active companies[edit]
Subsidiaries that are no longer active are marked with asterisk (*).
Atari[edit]
Bandai Namco Holdings[edit]
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
- B.B. Studio (formerly BEC)
- Bandai (prior to the merger with Namco)
- Toy Soldiers* (including DreamWorks)
- Banpresto*
- D3 Publisher
- Namco* (prior to the merger with Bandai)
Capcom[edit]
Konami[edit]
Microsoft[edit]
Nintendo[edit]
Sega Sammy Holdings[edit]
- Sammy Corporation (also includes Treco)
- Sega
Sony[edit]
- Sony Imagesoft*
- Sony Interactive Entertainment (formerly Sony Computer Entertainment)
- 989 Studios
- SCE Studio Liverpool (formerly Psygnosis)*
Square Enix[edit]
Other companies[edit]
- Activision
- Agetec (also includes Nexoft and ASCII Entertainment)
- Altron
- Aquaplus
- Broccoli
- Bungie
- Cave
- Crystal Dynamics
- Disney Interactive Studios
- Electronic Arts
- BioWare
- Codemasters
- Glu Mobile
- Amaze Entertainment (also includes Adrenium Games, Griptonite Games, The Fizz Factor and KnowWonder)
- PopCap Games
- Respawn Entertainment
- Elite Systems (includes Motivetime)
- Game Freak
- HAL Laboratory
- Idea Factory
- Imagineer (also includes Rocket Company)
- ININ Games
- Interplay Entertainment
- Kemco
- KID
- Koei Tecmo
- Marvelous Entertainment
- Majesco Entertainment
- Natsume Atari (formerly Natsume)
- Nihon Game (formerly Culture Brain)
- Quicksilver Software
- Sunsoft
- Take-Two Interactive
- Telegames
- THQ Nordic (formerly Nordic Games prior to acquiring the THQ name)
- Tomy (also includes Takara)
- Toys for Bob
- Ubisoft
- Universal Entertainment Corporation (formerly Universal (1969-1998) and Aruze (1998-2009))
- Valve Corporation
- Visual Arts
- Warner Bros. Games
- Midway Games*
- Midway Home Entertainment (also includes Williams Entertainment and Tradewest)*
- Time Warner Interactive (also includes Tengen)*
- NetherRealm Studios
- TT Games
- Turner Interactive*
- Midway Games*
Defunct/dormant companies[edit]
- 20th Century-Fox Games
- The 3DO Company
- Absolute Entertainment (also includes Imagineering)
- Acclaim Entertainment (also includes Acclaim Distribution)
- Acclaim Studios Austin (formerly Iguana Entertainment)
- Acclaim Studios London (formerly Probe Entertainment)
- Acclaim Studios Manchester (formerly Software Creations)
- Acclaim Studios Salt Lake City (formerly Sculptured Software)
- Arena Entertainment
- Flying Edge
- LJN
- Active Enterprises
- American Multiple Industries
- American Video Entertainment
- Animation Magic
- Appaloosa Interactive (also includes Novotrade International)
- BAM! Entertainment
- Bits Studios
- CBS Electronics
- Coleco Industries
- Commodore International
- Data East
- Digital Pictures
- Domark
- DTMC
- Eidos Interactive
- Electro Brain
- Epyx
- Fotomat Video
- Fox Interactive
- Fujisankei Communications International (FCI)
- The Game Factory
- Games by Apollo
- GameTek
- General Computer Corporation (GCC)
- GTE Entertainment
- Hi-Tech Expressions
- Hot-B
- Human Entertainment
- Imagic
- INTV Corporation
- Irem
- Jaleco
- Kaneko
- Krome Studios Melbourne (formerly Beam Software)
- K-TEL Vision
- The Learning Company
- Left Field Entertainment
- Malibu Interactive (also includes ACME Interactive)
- Mattel Electronics
- Mattel Interactive (also includes Mattel Media)
- Mindscape (also includes The Software Toolworks)
- NewKidCo
- Ocean Software
- Philips Consumer Electronics
- Magnavox
- Philips Interactive Media (also includes American Interactive Media)
- PlayAround
- RazorSoft
- Raya Systems
- ReadySoft
- Renovation Products
- Romstar
- Sachen
- Sage's Creation
- Seika Corporation
- Shadowsoft
- ShareData (also includes American Game Cartridges)
- Simon & Schuster Interactive
- SOFEL
- SouthPeak Games
- Spectravision
- Starpath
- Taxan
- Telltale Games
- THQ (also includes Broderbund Software's New Ventures division, Black Pearl Software and Malibu Games)
- Titus Software
- Toho
- Tonkin House
- Triffix Entertainment
- Universal Gamex
- U.S. Games
- U.S. Gold
- Viacom New Media
- Vic Tokai
- Video System
- Virgin Interactive Entertainment (also includes Arcadia Systems and Virgin Games)
- WaveQuest
- Wizard Video
- Xonox