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Atari Games Corporation was an American producer of arcade games. It was originally the coin-operated arcade game division of Atari, Inc. and was split off into its own company in 1984.

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Parroty Interactive was an American video game developer based in Larkspur, California, which acted as a division of publisher Palladium Interactive, Inc.

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Rainbow Arts Software GmbH was a German video game publisher based in Gütersloh. The company was founded in 1984 by Marc Ullrich and Thomas Meiertoberens and acquired by Rushware in 1986. In 1999, Funsoft Holding, which acquired Rushware and sister company Softgold in 1992, sold Rushware to THQ, which was incorporated into THQ Deutschland, THQ's German operations arm.

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Sensible Software was one of the most successful and popular British game developers of the 8-bit era and 16-bit era. Founded by school friends Jon Hare and Chris Yates in Chelmsford, Essex, UK in 1986, games such as Sensible World of Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Mega-Lo-Mania, Wizball, Shoot-'Em-Up Construction Kit, MicroProse Soccer and Wizkid: The Story of Wizball II gave Sensible a total of 8 #1 hits in the UK all format charts, including 52 weeks in the top spot between June 1992 and June 1995. Their games were extremely popular across Europe selling millions of copies and winning many awards, however their success outside of Europe was much more limited, mostly due to the platforms they tended to lead development on.

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Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher. The company, founded in 1983 in Boulder, Colorado by Jeff Sauter, Phil Adam and Mike Franklin, was best known for its simulation games, notably the Falcon series of combat flight simulators, and for publishing the first version of Tetris outside the Soviet Union. Spectrum HoloByte published games for various home computers and video game consoles.

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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.

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Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role-playing games active from 1980 until the year 1999 when they went into bankruptcy proceedings. Until the mid-1990s they published their Swedish roleplaying games under the brand name Äventyrsspel.