On This Day in Game History

Founded as Event Horizon Software, Inc.

APC&TCP starts commercial activity, having previously functioned as a computer club.

Unique Development Sweden HB is registered. The Obsession team now consists of seven people, of which three live in Norrköping. The rest are spread out over different parts of the country, but Norrköping becomes the natural gathering point. Here, we meet every other weekend to pull together our respective pieces of code and art. The game is taking shape. During the summer, more people join UDS and start working on what will be our last game for the Atari, the only 3D third-person shooter for the platform, SubStation.

100 square feet of concrete-encapsulated basement area constitutes our office. Later this summer, funds are really strained and in order to maintain business with a group of people working full-time together, we are forced to work in the living room of the flat where we live. The fifteen-month period between the summer of –95 and autumn –96 is still, albeit with an increasing touch of nostalgia, commonly referred to by old members of the UDS staff as the "Hell Hole" period.

3D Realms releases their first game Terminal Velocity version 1.0, a flight action game using the shareware model for its method of marketing and was also sold commercially in retail stores.

The company name is changed from JVC Musical Industries, Inc. to JVC Music, Inc.

The company moves to a larger office in Aalborg.

The company is officially registered as Toro-Publishing GmbH.

Activision announces expectations to triple Beenox's work force, creating more than 200 new positions in the Quebec area by 2009.

Co-Founder and CEO Ian Higgins announces he will be leaving the company after 21 years of service.

Company acquires K2 LLC

Company is acquired by Capcom.

Company founded.

Company is merged into Bbmf Corporation and ceases operation under the Bothtec name.

Company was founded

Company acquires Psyonix.