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| Industry | Video games |
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| Founded | 1988 |
| Defunct | 1997 |
Key people | Steve Barcia |
| Products | Master of Orion Master of Magic 1830 |
Simtex was avideo game developer established bySteve Barcia in1988. It created a number ofturn-basedstrategy games for thePC, most notably the first twoMaster of Orion games. The company closed in1997.
The rights to Simtex's games were held byAtari until sold to various parties in a 2013 auction.Wargaming now owns the rights to the Master of Orion series, while Slitherine holds the publishing rights to Master of Magic;[1] it is eXtremePro Group Inc, that owns the full IP, based on trademark records.[2] A thirdMaster of Orion game namedMaster of Orion III was published by Atari (a subsidiary company ofInfogrames) in2003, having been developed byQuicksilver Software.
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