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Cinemaware
Cinemaware was a computer game developer and publisher that released several popular titles in the 1980s based on various movie themes. The company was resurrected in 2000, before being acquired by eGames in 2005.
==Cinemaware Corp. (1985–1991)==
Founded in 1985 by Bob and Phyllis Jacob, Cinemaware's first title was the popular ''Defender of the Crown'', a swashbuckling adventure featuring graphics that were considered extraordinary for the era. Bob Jacob was a movie buff, and Cinemaware released other popular games based on classic movie genres that also emphasized action, graphics, and ease of play. Its games generally debuted on the most graphically powerful home computer of the era, the Amiga, and then ported to others, such as the Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Commodore 64, PC (running under DOS), and the Nintendo Entertainment System. ''Defender of the Crown'' is the most ported Cinemaware game.
Cinemaware eventually expanded to sports games, with its "TV Sports" line, which featured elements of sports telecasts such as studio announcers. The "TV Sports" line covered basketball, ice hockey and football. Some of the titles were only known by "TV Sports" name in Europe, ''TV Sports: Boxing'' and ''TV Sports: Baseball'', which were released in the United States by Data East as ''ABC Wide World of Sports Boxing'' and ''Bo Jackson Baseball'' respectively.
Cinemaware went bankrupt in 1991. While porting ''S.D.I.'' to another system, one of the company's owners demanded the programmers add more features, increasing the programming time and delaying the product's release. Coupled with falling sales of their other titles in the midst of an economic downturn, the company suffered. The company also suffered from software piracy, threatening to stop publishing Amiga games at several points because of the ease by which computer games could be copied. Many of their games, including ''Wings'', were cracked and spread amongst gamers even before release.
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