ICOM Simulations

Infobox_Company
company_name = ICOM Simulations
company_
company_type = Private (defunct)
company_slogan =
industry = Software
foundation =
location = Wheeling, Illinois
key_people =Tod Zipnick
Darin Adler
num_employees = N/A
products = Hard Hat Mack (1983)
Joe Junk Man (1983)
Galactic Chase (1983)
Rat Patrol (1983)
Pig Pen (1983)
(1985)
(1988)
OnCue
Shadowgate (1987)
TMON
Uninvited (1986)

revenue = N/A
homepage = None

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 the foundation 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

ICOM Simulations was formed as TMQ Software [cite web
last = Adler
first = Darin
authorlink = Darin Adler
coauthors =
date =
year =
month =
url = http://www.bentspoon.com/darin/monologue.html
title = Monologue
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work =
pages = 1986-1987: Macintosh community
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language =
accessdate = December 28
accessyear = 2007
curly =] 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 . 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.

References

[http://hol.abime.net/search.php?&af=U&N_ref_developer=286] [http://www.the-underdogs.org/company.php?name=ICOM+Simulations] [http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3128524] [http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-107.html] [http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1630] [http://www.mirsoft.info/gmb/company_info.php?id_ele=ODIwNw=]

External links

* [http://www.infiniteventures.com/ Infinite Ventures]