The Codemasters Software Company Limited is a British video game developer and publisher based in Southam, England. Founded by brothers Richard and David Darling in October 1986, it is one of the oldest British game studios. It is notable for making the large majority of games published by Camerica, which bypassed Nintendo’s lock-out chip by glitching it.
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The Codemasters Software Company Limited is a British video game developer and publisher based in Southam, England. Founded by brothers Richard and David Darling in October 1986, it is one of the oldest British game studios. In 2005, the company was named the best independent game developer by Develop. The company’s first game was BMX Simulator, a successor to BMX Racers. It is notable for making the large majority of games published by Camerica, which bypassed Nintendo’s lock-out chip by glitching it and produced unlicensed NES games. Between 1998 and 2003, they teamed up with Jester Interactive Limited to launch a new development studio in Oakhurst, using offices that were abandoned by Sierra-Line. They laid off much of Yosemite Entertainment’s staff in mid-September 1999. In an unsuccessful lawsuit, Nintendo sued Galobo in the case v. Game Genie, claiming that Game Genie created derivative works in violation of copyright law. The case was settled out of court and Nintendo was awarded $1.5 million in damages. The settlement was settled with the Nintendo of America, and the case is still ongoing. Codemaster is now a publicly traded company, and is owned by the holding company Codemmasters Group Holdings plc, which is publicly traded and owns The Codem Masters Software Company Ltd.
It also owns The Games Creator, a game making tool that would later be sold commercially, and The Game Pak, a cheat Pak that was later renamed the Game Pak Genie. It was released in the US and the UK in the 1990s by Galoobo, and later renamed Game Pak Pak in the UK and the US in the mid-2000s. It has since been sold to the GamePak company, which also owns the rights to the Al Enhancer series of games. The GamePak was later sold to Hasbro, which has since gone on to become a successful video game publisher and distributor. The Power Pak was also used to create the Game Genie Genie cartridge for the NES, which was later released in US and Canada in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In the early 1990s, Codemmers developed a device called the Power Pak, which allowed two extra controllers to be attached to the game cart without requiring Electronic Arts’ 4 way play or SEGA’s four-player adaptor. In 2007, the Company announced that they would launch an effort to establish themselves in the United States, using the offices of On-Line Interactive.
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