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| Founder(s) | Tod Zipnick |
| Founded | 1983 |
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ICOM Simulations was a software company based in Wheeling, Illinois. It is best known for creating the MacVenture series of adventure games including Shadowgate.
Following its founding in 1983 a number of game titles for the Panasonic JR-200 were produced. Later products for the Apple Macintosh included the debugger TMON and an application launching utility called OnCue.
History[edit]
ICOM Simulations was formed as TMQ Software in the early 1980s by Tod Zipnick. With the MacVenture series, ICOM pioneered the point-and-click adventure interface and later multiplatform CD-ROM development with Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective.
In the early-to-mid 1990s, ICOM Simulations was a major third party developer for the TurboGrafx-16 platform in the US. They produced many games for the console, including the TG-16 exclusive Shadowgate sequel, Beyond Shadowgate. The company was acquired in 1993 by Viacom New Media which closed its operations in 1997. Renamed to Rabid Entertainment, VNM/ICOM was dismantled in 1998.
The rights to ICOM's game portfolio is currently held by the company Infinite Ventures.
Pages in category "ICOM Simulations"
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