Silmarils (company)

Louis-Marie Rocques
André Rocques

Defunct2003 (2003)FateBankruptcyHeadquarters

France

Silmarils was a French computer game software company founded in 1987 by Louis-Marie and André Rocques. It produced games for PC, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Macintosh, Atari ST and Atari Falcon.^[1]

The company is most closely associated with its Ishar series. Crystals of Arborea was one of the first games to offer real-time 3D environment and a large world with very few limits on movement. The company went bankrupt in 2003, and in 2004 the Rocques brothers and another former Silmarils member, Pascal Einsweiler, founded a new studio called Eversim, specializing in political strategy games.^[2]

It was named after J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmarils.

Games

1987
- Manhattan Dealers
1988
- Mad Show
1989
- Le Fetiche Maya
- Targhan (planned for Sega Genesis)^[3]
- Windsurf Willy
1990
- Colorado (planned for Sega Genesis)^[3]
- Crystals of Arborea
- Star Blade (planned for Sega Genesis)^[3]
1991
- Boston Bomb Club
- Metal Mutant
- Storm Master
- Xyphoes Fantasy
1992
- Bunny Bricks
- Ishar I: Legend of the Fortress
1993
- Ishar II: Messengers of Doom
- Transarctica
1994
- Robinson's Requiem
- Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity
1996
- Deus
1997
- Time Warriors
1998
- Asghan: The Dragon Slayer
2001
- Arabian Nights
- Les Visiteurs: La Relique de Sainte Rolande
2003
- Inspector Gadget: Mad Robots Invasion
unknown
- Asghan 2

References

^ Anderson, Eric (2012-02-07), "About the Study", The Monogamy GapMen, Love, and the Reality of Cheating, Oxford University Press, pp. 22–34, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199777921.003.0003, ISBN 978-0-19-977792-1, retrieved 2022-11-13
^ "The Complete History of Silmarils - The End". Archived from the original on 2012-03-13.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Colorado" (PDF). Color Dreams - Arcade Quality Video Games For Play On SEGA® GENESIS®. Sega. 1990. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2020-12-03.