Magic bytes
| Magic bytes | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Product label from Verlag R. Kleinegräber |
| founding | 1986 |
| resolution | 1999 |
| Seat | Gutersloh |
| management | Rolf Lakaemper, Thomas Meiertoberens |
| Branch | Software development |
Magic Bytes was a game developer and publisher based in Gütersloh .
history
In 1984 the software company Micro-Partner was founded by Rolf Lakaemper, Thomas Meiertoberens and Marc Ullrich . In 1986 the founders fell out; Ullrich founded the games label Rainbow Arts , Lakaemper and Meiertoberens continued micro-partners and founded the games label Magic Bytes. With the help of freelancers, the company produced computer games for home computers such as the C64 and Amiga under this label . In addition to in-house developments, games from other studios were also sold. In cooperation with Falken-Verlag , Magic Bytes developed the educational software Börsenfieber in 1989 , which was sold abroad under the title Wall $ treethas been published. After Micro-Partner went bankrupt in 1991, the Magic Bytes label was sold to the R. Kleinegräber publishing house, which published further games under the label name until 2000 ( Sexy Droids , Penthouse Hot Numbers and Biing! ). The previously announced Magic Bytes games Industrial Rebound , European Journeys and American Journeys were never released.
In 2017, the former managing director Thomas Meiertoberens, who had meanwhile emigrated to the United States, opened a distribution company for computer games in Orlando that bears the name Magic Bytes.
Games (excerpt)
| year | game | genre |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Western Games | Sports game |
| 1987 | Clever & Smart | Action adventure |
| 1988 | Mini golf | Sports game |
| 1988 | Pink Panther | Action adventure |
| 1988 | Vampire's Empire | Action adventure |
| 1989 | Tom & Jerry | Action |
| 1989 | Wall $ treet | Educational software |
| 1989 | Beam | Action |
| 1989 | Nightdawn | Action |
| 1989 | Eskimo Games | Sports game |
| 1990 | Big business | Economic simulation |
| 1990 | Domination | Action adventure |
| 1990 | USS John Young | simulation |
| 1990 | North Sea Inferno | Action adventure |
| 1990 | Cyberworld | Action adventure |
| 1991 | Dinowars | Action strategy |
| 1991 | The Second World | Adventure |
| 1992 | Dynatech | Economic simulation |
| 1992 | Elysium | Economic simulation |
| 1994 | Adventure space | Educational software |
| 1995 | Biing! | Economic simulation |
| 1997 | Have a nice day! | Racing game |
| 1998 | NICE II | Racing game |
Web links
- Magic Bytes at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uni-Hamburg.de: Entrepeneurship-Forum and Startup-Competition 2015. Accessed on August 5, 2019 .
- ^ Richard-Loewenstein.de: 80s retro career. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .
- ^ Hall of Light Team: Stock Market Fever. March 29, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Mediabiz.de: Magic Bytes - Kleinegräber Verlag. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .
- ↑ MagicBytes.com: About Us. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 17.5 ″ N , 8 ° 23 ′ 54 ″ E