Who makes your games?

[bargora]

I was curious, so I ran through my collection. I was mainly surprised by the sheer number of manufacturers. 109 manufacturers for over 500 games!

Each "*" represents one game. Data is taken from the DP online database using the listed manufacturer. What strikes me as odd, though, is that some of these names are ones that I had only known as developers. Is this just new to me, or were some of the games in my collection self-published by companies that normally are better known as developers?

20th Cent Fox. *
3DO................. *
989 Studios.... **
Acclaim........... **********
Activision........ ******************
Agetec............. ***********
Agetec/A1....... *
Arena............... *
ASC Games..... *
ASCII.............. ****
Atari................. *****************************************
Athena............. *
Atlus................ *****
Ballistic........... *
bam!................ ****
Bandai.............. *
Berkeley Sys... *
Camerica......... **
Capcom........... ***************************************
CBS Games..... **
Coleco............. **
Crave............... *****
Crystal Dynam ***
Disney.............. *
Dreamworks..... *
DSI................... **
EA Victor......... *
Eidos................ ***********
Electronic Arts **************
Empire.............. **
Enix................... ***
Epic................... *
ESP................... **
FCI.................... *
Fox Interact...... **
Gotham Games. **
GT Interactive.. *********
Hamster............. ***
Hasbro Interact *****
Hot-B................. *
Hudson.............. *
Imagic............... *
Infogrames........ *******
Interplay........... *****
Jaleco................ **
Kemco............... *
Konami.............. ************************************
LJN.................... *
LucasArts......... *****
M Network......... *
Majesco............ *****
Mean Hamster.. *
Metro3D............ *
Microsoft........... **
Midway.............. *************
Milton Bradley.. *
Mindscape........ ***
Mud Duck......... ***
Namco.............. *********************
Natsume........... **
NewKidCo......... *
Nintendo........... *****************
NTVIC.............. *
Origin................ *
Parker Bros...... **
Playmates........ *
Psikyo.............. **
Psygnosis........ *********
Rare.................. *
Renovation....... **
Rockstar........... ***
Romstar............ *
Sammy............. **
Sears................ ****
Sega................. ************************************************
Seismic............ **
Sierra............... **
SNK.................. *
Sony................. ********************
Sony/Agetec.... *
Spectrum Holo. *
Squaresoft........ *******
SSI................... *
SunSoft............. *
SVG Dist.......... *
T*HQ............... ******
Taito................. **
Takara.............. *
Take2 Interact *******
Taxan............... *
Technosoft....... *
Tecmo.............. *
Tengen............. *
Time Warner.... *
Titus................. **
Toho.................. *
Tommo.............. ****
Treasure........... *
Treco................ **
Ubi Soft............. ****
Universal........... *
Viacom.............. *
Vic Tokai........... *
Virgin................. *
Williams............. ***
Working Designs ******
Xicat................... *
Xing Entertain.... **
XS Games........... ****

[njiska]

Capcom, Konami, Nintendo and Tecmo are my biggest groups. Well at least for this generation, i haven;t had time to go back through all the old ones yet.

I think most of us will have a lot of Capcom and Konami games. Sega and Nintendo should be high on the list too.

[Sailorneorune]

Capcom, Konami, Nintendo, Sega and Square (Squaresoft, Square Enix) are responsible for the overwhelming majority of the games in my collection.

For the others:
Namco- Katamari Damacy, Tales of Symphonia, Tekken 3
Atlus- SMT Nocturne
Bandai- .hack series
Ubisoft- Beyond Good & Evil
Rare- Perfect Dark, Jet Force Gemini
Working Designs- Lunar series

[Richter Belmount]

konami =P >_> <_< oh yeah and capcom... and nintendo then square ahem

[GobopopRevisited]

Nintendo, Capcom, Square, SEGA, Konami, Lucas Arts... in that order, the lowest being 22 games.

[Nirvana]

Capcom and Square. They are my favorite 2 game companies. Street Fighter and Mega Man are my favorite series of games. Also, Squaresoft, of course, has the Final Fantasy series, Chrobo Trigger/Chrono Cross, and easily one of MY favorite (but not other people's) RPG's, SaGa Frontier.

[tuxedojoe]

According to IGN:

Favored platform: Super NES
Favored publisher: SEGA
Favored developer: Nintendo EAD

I would say the majority of my collection is Sega, Nintendo, Capcom or Namco. I also have quite a few Taito games (mostly imports).

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

I'm pretty sure that if I counted it out as a bar graph like that, Namco would have the longest one.

Er......maybe I should rephrase that.

[hbkprm]

mostly the sonic team

[jdc]

I'm a sucker for Namco's racers and also anything else that they develop. I do have a lot of Nintendo's stuff.

[boatofcar]

My current PS2 stuff is a mixed bag. I've got some Namco stuff (Arcade Classics, Katamari Damacy), but I think everything else is from other developers.

Now Gamecube on the other hand-I think every single Gamecube game I have is a 1st party game. *runs over titles in head just to make sure*......yeah. I'll always get the PS2 port of a game over the GCN version because the PS2 controller feels more normal to me.

[izret101]

According to my RFGeneration listings.
The 3 games that are - are demos from Gamepro and OXM.
First number is the # of games. Second number is the percent of total games.

Nintendo 79 (20%)
Sony 27 (7%)
Acclaim 21 (5%)
SEGA 20 (5%)
Konami 11 (3%)
Midway 10 (3%)
Electronic Arts 10 (3%)
LJN 7 (2%)
Microsoft Game Studios 7 (2%)
GameTek 7 (2%)
Capcom 7 (2%)
THQ 6 (2%)
Ultra 6 (2%)
Milton Bradley 6 (2%)
Midway Home Entertainment 5 (1%)
Activision 5 (1%)
Namco 5 (1%)
Jaleco 4 (1%)
Crave 4 (1%)
Data East 4 (1%)
- 3 (1%)
Eidos Interactive 3 (1%)
Squaresoft 3 (1%)
Interplay 3 (1%)
Mindscape 3 (1%)
Sunsoft 3 (1%)
Coleco 3 (1%)
Hi Tech Expressions 3 (1%)
Tradewest 3 (1%)
Taito 3 (1%)
Tiger 3 (1%)
Simon & Schuster Interative 3 (1%)
Tecmo 3 (1%)
SNK 3 (1%)
Magnavox 3 (1%)
Hudson 2 (1%)
Activision, Inc 2 (1%)
Titus 2 (1%)
Sony Imagesoft 2 (1%)
Infogrames 2 (1%)
MICROPROSE 2 (1%)
Asciiware 2 (1%)
Square 2 (1%)
Bandai 2 (1%)
Virgin 2 (1%)
Galoob 2 (1%)
Atlus 2 (1%)
AVE 2 (1%)
Hasboro 2 (1%)
Radica 2 (1%)
GT Interactive 2 (1%)
InterAct 2 (1%)
Camerica 2 (1%)
Absolute 1 (0%)
Psygnosis 1 (0%)
Seika 1 (0%)
Walt Disney Computer Software Inc. 1 (0%)
WACO 1 (0%)
Williams 1 (0%)
Agetec 1 (0%)
Natsume 1 (0%)
Tengen 1 (0%)
Ocean/Acclaim 1 (0%)
EA Games 1 (0%)
RomTech/Gen X Software/Chaocity Productions 1 (0%)
Koei 1 (0%)
Ubi Soft 1 (0%)
JVC 1 (0%)
Take2 Interact 1 (0%)
Microsoft 1 (0%)
Halken 1 (0%)
Hot-B 1 (0%)
Vatical 1 (0%)
Rockstar 1 (0%)
Blue Sky 1 (0%)
LucasArts 1 (0%)
Color Dreams 1 (0%)
Ocean 1 (0%)
TDK 1 (0%)
Universal 1 (0%)
Empire 1 (0%)
Phillips 1 (0%)
Accolade 1 (0%)
Rare 1 (0%)
Monkey Buisness 1 (0%)
Taxan 1 (0%)
Virgin Interactive Entertainmen 1 (0%)
MECC 1 (0%)
Majesco 1 (0%)
3DO 1 (0%)
Midway Games, Inc. 1 (0%)
Origin 1 (0%)
FCI 1 (0%)
Agetec/A1 Games 1 (0%)
Workman Publishing Company 1 (0%)
MGA Reality Games 1 (0%)
MicroPlay 1 (0%)
Dreamworks 1 (0%)
Bethesda Softworks 1 (0%)
Flying Edge 1 (0%)
Namco/Tengen 1 (0%)
Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. 1 (0%)
IDG Games Media Group 1 (0%)
Nintendo/LucasArts 1 (0%)
Virgin Mastertronic 1 (0%)
Namco Hometek, Inc 1 (0%)
Mastiff 1 (0%)
Mattel 1 (0%)
California Dreams 1 (0%)
Berkeley 1 (0%)
NakiTek 1 (0%)
Jaleco Entertainment 1 (0%)
DinoSoft Inc 1 (0%)

[robotriot]

Heh, that's a pretty long list ^^

Sega (62)
Atari (35)
Nintendo (22)
Psygnosis (21)
Milton Bradley (17)
Electronic Arts (15)
Konami (13)
Virgin Interactive (12)
Gremlin (12)
Mindscape (11)
Quelle (10)
Microprose (10)
Core Design (10)
Team 17 (10)
Sony (9)
Acclaim (9)
Millennium (8)
Ubi Soft (8)
Ocean (8)
Capcom (8)
Thalion (7)
Flair (7)
Microsoft (7)
Renegade (6)
I.C.E. (6)
Activision (6)
Hudson Soft (5)
SNK (5)
Interton Electronic (5)
Guildhall (5)
GameTek (5)
Neo (5)
THQ (5)
Parker Bros. (4)
Kixx (4)
Image Works (4)
21st Century (4)
Softgold (4)
Infogrames (4)
Namcot (3)
NCS (3)
Mindscape (3)
Namco (3)
Imagic (3)
U.S. Gold (3)
Swing (3)
Mirrorsoft (3)
Commodore (3)
Grandslam (3)
Audiogenic ASL (3)
Krisalis (3)
Rockstar Games (3)
Interplay (3)
Eidos (3)
Codemasters (3)
Taito (2)
Majesco (2)
Square (2)
Success (2)
Rainbow Arts (2)
Victor Musical Industries (2)
Naxat Soft (2)
NEC (2)
Tecmo (2)
Hewson (2)
Lucasfilm Games (2)
Midas (2)
System 3 (2)
Almathera (2)
TDK Mediactive (2)
Telenet (1)
Psikyo (1)
Apache (1)
Microstyle (1)
New World Computing (1)
Flying Edge (1)
HAL (1)
Ariolasoft (1)
SSI (1)
Software 2000 (1)
Alternative (1)
Visionary Design (1)
Video Gems (1)
Innerprise (1)
V.A.K. (1)
Zoo Digital Publishing (1)
Intec (1)
Human Creative (1)
Digital Bros (1)
Esp (1)
Midway (1)
Atlus (1)
Xnonox (1)
Triangle Service (1)
Able Corporation (1)
Effigy Software (1)
Vivendi (1)
Guinness Publishing (1)
Buzz (1)
Vortex Design (1)
D3 Publisher (1)
Treco (1)
PlayByte (1)
Revolution (1)
Empire Interactive (1)
Ignition Entertainment (1)
Metro3D (1)
Discovery Software (1)
Demonware (1)
Data East (1)
Lionhead Studios (1)
Accolade (1)
PCCW Japan (1)
Kemco (1)
Xicat Interactive (1)
DSI Games (1)
Optonica (1)
Rareware (1)
eclipse (1)
Microillusions (1)
Tonkin House (1)
Blue Byte (1)
Epyx (1)
APC&TCP (1)
Vivid Image (1)
Digital Illusions (1)
Agetec (1)
Take 2 Interactive (1)
The Sales Curve (1)
Silmarils (1)
Blittersoft (1)
Unique (1)
Acid (1)
Mirage (1)
Titus (1)
Greenwood (1)
Paragon Publishing (1)
Manyk (1)
Global (1)
Cyberdreams (1)
Kompart (1)

[AlexKidd]

I don't feel like counting them all at the moment but I have a feeling this would be the top 5:

1.Nintendo
2.Konami
3.Hudson(most of the turbo stuff)
4.Sega
5.Squaresoft

There's probably a decent amount of EA,namco and capcom as well.

[Sam]

Nintendo, Rare, Sega, Namco, Konami and Capcom I'd say. Oh and a few treasures.

[Oobgarm]

I was going to march in here and say 'JAPAN' since that's where most of the games are MADE, anyway. :P

But I know my top 5 manufacturers from my old IGN list:

Nintendo
Konami
Capcom
Sega
EA

[Jumpman Jr.]

I'm pretty confident that the majority of my games are manufactured by Nintendo.