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Dinamic / Microdigital Soft (1983-1992)> Dinamic Multimedia, S.A.(1993-2001)
Dinamic Software, originally founded as Microdigital Soft was a Spanish video games producer and publisher company.
It was founded in 1983, and its activity ceased in 1992, comprising the Golden Era of Spanish Software.
One year later, a part of its owners founded an independent company named Dinamic Multimedia.
At the end of the 1980s, another company, Aventuras AD destinated to produce text adventures, was born from Dinamic Software.
History
At the beginning of the 1980s, young brothers Pablo, Nacho and Victor Ruiz have their first contact with computers.
In the case of Victor Ruiz, he started with a Sinclair ZX81, creating some amateur self made games.
On their first attempt as a company, they created NCM, which would later become Dinamic.
Their original idea was simply to create a team of programmers, they never thought that it would start such an intense commercial activity.
On their first months, they created themselves all the code, recorded themselves the programs on tape, designed and printed artboxes and manuals, and distributed them, as well as designing their ads to publish them on newspapers and magazines.
Their official debut was Yenght, a text adventure with graphics for ZX Spectrum, and Artist, a graphic design program, both released in 1983.
But their first commercial success would come with the release of Saimazoom in 1984, which would start a trilogy, followed by Babaliba and Abu Simbel Profanation.
In 1986, Victor Ruiz would create Camelot Warriors, and the same year he would start the "Moves" trilogy, with Army Moves in 1986, followed by Navy Moves in 1988.
In 1991, Arctic Moves was designed to be published for the Atari ST, but this version was not released due to Dinamic's bankruptcy.
The game would be redesigned for PC and published in 1995 by Dinamic Multimedia.
With Fernando Martin Basket Master, which was one of the most sold Spanish videogames to date, they started a tradition to hire famous people, mainly sportsmen, to make videogames, something imitated by the rest of the Spanish companies of the time, and later by themselves, releasing Aspar GP Master and Míchel Fútbol Master Super Skills.
1987 proved to be their most active year.
They release one of the most commercially successful text adventures in Spain, Don Quijote, based on the book by Cervantes and the cartoon series released at the time.
With it they created the trademark Aventuras Dinamic which would be dedicated entirely on text adventures. However, text adventures, with or without graphics, proved to be commercially unsuccessful in the Spanish market, and Aventuras Dinamic was bought by Andrés Samudio, so he could create Aventuras AD, on the condition that he would produce the games, but Dinamic had to distribute them, and so it was.
Other titles with massive Spanish and international distribution were Game Over, and Phantis (this one released in the United Kingdom as Game Over II).
Their covers included girls with sexy corsets, which were heavily censored outside Spain.
It is specially rememeberd the case of Game Over where a nipple was visible, and it was covered in the UK with the Dinamic logo, a screen capture or directly with a redrawn corset in subsequent editions.
Other successful titles by Dinamic were Freddy Hardest (1987) and its sequel Freddy Hardest II (1989), Turbo Girl (1988), and After the War (1989).
During the Golden age of Spanish software, Dinamic distributed their own games in Spain, as well as the ones by Aventuras AD and other minor companies, becoming a rival to Erbe Software in this work.
However, with the change of decade, and the migration to 16 bit platforms, sale figures started declining. After launching Narco Police (1991), they became unable to distribute anymore their titles.
Their last title, Risky Woods, could be released, exclusively for 16 bit platforms, thanks to co-production with Zeus Software, and distribution by Electronic Arts, since Dinamic Software was already immerse in an economical crisis that would lead to their closedown in bankruptcy in 1992.
One year later, the Ruiz brothers, with Carlos Abril (one of the designers of Panthis) and the owner of HobbyPress, José Ignacio Gómez-Centurión, would create a new company, which was named Dinamic Multimedia in honor of the defunct company, but would only be owned on a 30% by the Ruiz Brothers.
List of titles
Abu Simbel, Profanation
After The War
Amc/Astro Marine Corps
Army Moves
Arquímedes XXI
Artist
Aspar GP Master
Babaliba
Bestial Warrior
Bestial Warrior, Gunstick
Bronx (juego)
Buggy Ranger
Camelot Warriors
Capitán Sevilla
Cobra's Arc
Comando Tracer/The Last Commando
Cosmic Sheriff
Don Quijote
Dustin
El Capitán Trueno
Fernando Martín Basket Master
Freddy Hardest
Freddy Hardest 2 : In South Manhattan (published as Guardian Angel outside Spain)
Game Over
Game Over II
Hammer Boy
Hundra
La guerra de las vajillas
Mapsnatch
Megacorp
Meganova
Megaphoenix
Lo mejor de Dinamic
Míchel Fútbol Master Super Skills
Narco Police
Navy Moves
Nonamed
Olé toro
Los pájaros de Bangkok
Phantis (published as Game Over II outside Spain[NO SUCH RELEASE])
Phantomas
Phantomas 2
Risky Woods
Rocky
Saimazoom
Satan
Simulador profesional de tenis
Sgrizam
Turbo Girl
Videolimpic
West Bank
Yenght
Dinamic Multimedia was a Spanish software house and publisher created in 1993 which was created after the bankruptcy of Dinamic Software in 1992 by some of its former members. After having released several titles, they filed for bankruptcy in September 2001.
History
The "jewel in the crown" of the company was the PC Fútbol series, which featured an annual installment for a decade. Originally only featuring the Spanish leagues, later versions were developed for Italy (PC Calcio) and Argentina (PC Fútbol Apertura and Clausura). For the broader English market, EuroLeague Football was released in 2000, following a brief licensing of the Premier Manager franchise in the late 1990s. Dinamic also released other sports games, such as PC Basket, PC Atletismo or Eurotour Cycling, as well as adventure games such as Hollywood Monsters, one of the biggest projects in Spanish game development history. Most of the house titles and Spanish-produced games were marketed as budget titles and were fiercely championed by the local gaming press. In their late years, Dinamic expanded to Italy (in 1997) and distributed several titles in Spain, including high-profile titles such as Flying Corps Gold, Blade Runner, Sega Rally Championship 2 and Shogo.
In 1999, the Ruíz brothers and Carlos Abril left the company on disagreements with the main owner, and co-founded FX Interactive.
Dinamic fell into financial turmoil during the first half of 2001. The publisher's ventures related to the dot-com bubble—such as the massively multiplayer online role-playing game La Prisión—proved unsuccessful, and the company was caught in the global dot-com collapse. By early March, rumors had spread that Dinamic was in danger of closing. The company responded that only its online division was being shuttered, and traditional game projects such as Runaway: A Road Adventure were not in jeopardy, despite their delays. However, key faculty secretly departed Dinamic to join Pyro Studios during the period, and Dinamic entered receivership and cut 39 jobs in late March. Dinamic owed a significant debt of 1.5 billion pesetas to multiple creditors by this time. On September 24, Dinamic announced its liquidation, following its financial upheaval earlier in the year. Although certain commentators had speculated that Runaway's sales would save the publisher, it was ultimately Dinamic's last published title.
Dinamic's bankruptcy came as a major blow to the domestic game market: at the time, a writer for VNUNet reported the closure as "bad news ... for the battered Spanish game software industry". In retrospect, David Navarro of MarcaPlayer called it "probably the most traumatic event that the Spanish video game industry has experienced in history".
Dinamic Multimedia published the following games:
Arctic Moves
EuroTour Cycling
Hollywood Monsters
M-Alien Paranoia
La Prision
Los justicieros
PC Atletismo
PC Selección Española de Fútbol: Eurocopa 96 Dinamic Multimedia
Resurrection: The Return of the Black Dragon
Runaway: A Road Adventure
PC Basket series
PC Fútbol series
PC Calcio series
PC Premiere series
Space Clash. The Last Frontier (1999, from Enigma)
Toyland Racing
Dinamic Software, originally founded as Microdigital Soft was a Spanish video games producer and publisher company.
It was founded in 1983, and its activity ceased in 1992, comprising the Golden Era of Spanish Software.
One year later, a part of its owners founded an independent company named Dinamic Multimedia.
At the end of the 1980s, another company, Aventuras AD destinated to produce text adventures, was born from Dinamic Software.
History
At the beginning of the 1980s, young brothers Pablo, Nacho and Victor Ruiz have their first contact with computers.
In the case of Victor Ruiz, he started with a Sinclair ZX81, creating some amateur self made games.
On their first attempt as a company, they created NCM, which would later become Dinamic.
Their original idea was simply to create a team of programmers, they never thought that it would start such an intense commercial activity.
On their first months, they created themselves all the code, recorded themselves the programs on tape, designed and printed artboxes and manuals, and distributed them, as well as designing their ads to publish them on newspapers and magazines.
Their official debut was Yenght, a text adventure with graphics for ZX Spectrum, and Artist, a graphic design program, both released in 1983.
But their first commercial success would come with the release of Saimazoom in 1984, which would start a trilogy, followed by Babaliba and Abu Simbel Profanation.
In 1986, Victor Ruiz would create Camelot Warriors, and the same year he would start the "Moves" trilogy, with Army Moves in 1986, followed by Navy Moves in 1988.
In 1991, Arctic Moves was designed to be published for the Atari ST, but this version was not released due to Dinamic's bankruptcy.
The game would be redesigned for PC and published in 1995 by Dinamic Multimedia.
With Fernando Martin Basket Master, which was one of the most sold Spanish videogames to date, they started a tradition to hire famous people, mainly sportsmen, to make videogames, something imitated by the rest of the Spanish companies of the time, and later by themselves, releasing Aspar GP Master and Míchel Fútbol Master Super Skills.
1987 proved to be their most active year.
They release one of the most commercially successful text adventures in Spain, Don Quijote, based on the book by Cervantes and the cartoon series released at the time.
With it they created the trademark Aventuras Dinamic which would be dedicated entirely on text adventures. However, text adventures, with or without graphics, proved to be commercially unsuccessful in the Spanish market, and Aventuras Dinamic was bought by Andrés Samudio, so he could create Aventuras AD, on the condition that he would produce the games, but Dinamic had to distribute them, and so it was.
Other titles with massive Spanish and international distribution were Game Over, and Phantis (this one released in the United Kingdom as Game Over II).
Their covers included girls with sexy corsets, which were heavily censored outside Spain.
It is specially rememeberd the case of Game Over where a nipple was visible, and it was covered in the UK with the Dinamic logo, a screen capture or directly with a redrawn corset in subsequent editions.
Other successful titles by Dinamic were Freddy Hardest (1987) and its sequel Freddy Hardest II (1989), Turbo Girl (1988), and After the War (1989).
During the Golden age of Spanish software, Dinamic distributed their own games in Spain, as well as the ones by Aventuras AD and other minor companies, becoming a rival to Erbe Software in this work.
However, with the change of decade, and the migration to 16 bit platforms, sale figures started declining. After launching Narco Police (1991), they became unable to distribute anymore their titles.
Their last title, Risky Woods, could be released, exclusively for 16 bit platforms, thanks to co-production with Zeus Software, and distribution by Electronic Arts, since Dinamic Software was already immerse in an economical crisis that would lead to their closedown in bankruptcy in 1992.
One year later, the Ruiz brothers, with Carlos Abril (one of the designers of Panthis) and the owner of HobbyPress, José Ignacio Gómez-Centurión, would create a new company, which was named Dinamic Multimedia in honor of the defunct company, but would only be owned on a 30% by the Ruiz Brothers.
List of titles
Abu Simbel, Profanation
After The War
Amc/Astro Marine Corps
Army Moves
Arquímedes XXI
Artist
Aspar GP Master
Babaliba
Bestial Warrior
Bestial Warrior, Gunstick
Bronx (juego)
Buggy Ranger
Camelot Warriors
Capitán Sevilla
Cobra's Arc
Comando Tracer/The Last Commando
Cosmic Sheriff
Don Quijote
Dustin
El Capitán Trueno
Fernando Martín Basket Master
Freddy Hardest
Freddy Hardest 2 : In South Manhattan (published as Guardian Angel outside Spain)
Game Over
Game Over II
Hammer Boy
Hundra
La guerra de las vajillas
Mapsnatch
Megacorp
Meganova
Megaphoenix
Lo mejor de Dinamic
Míchel Fútbol Master Super Skills
Narco Police
Navy Moves
Nonamed
Olé toro
Los pájaros de Bangkok
Phantis (published as Game Over II outside Spain[NO SUCH RELEASE])
Phantomas
Phantomas 2
Risky Woods
Rocky
Saimazoom
Satan
Simulador profesional de tenis
Sgrizam
Turbo Girl
Videolimpic
West Bank
Yenght
Dinamic Multimedia was a Spanish software house and publisher created in 1993 which was created after the bankruptcy of Dinamic Software in 1992 by some of its former members. After having released several titles, they filed for bankruptcy in September 2001.
History
The "jewel in the crown" of the company was the PC Fútbol series, which featured an annual installment for a decade. Originally only featuring the Spanish leagues, later versions were developed for Italy (PC Calcio) and Argentina (PC Fútbol Apertura and Clausura). For the broader English market, EuroLeague Football was released in 2000, following a brief licensing of the Premier Manager franchise in the late 1990s. Dinamic also released other sports games, such as PC Basket, PC Atletismo or Eurotour Cycling, as well as adventure games such as Hollywood Monsters, one of the biggest projects in Spanish game development history. Most of the house titles and Spanish-produced games were marketed as budget titles and were fiercely championed by the local gaming press. In their late years, Dinamic expanded to Italy (in 1997) and distributed several titles in Spain, including high-profile titles such as Flying Corps Gold, Blade Runner, Sega Rally Championship 2 and Shogo.
In 1999, the Ruíz brothers and Carlos Abril left the company on disagreements with the main owner, and co-founded FX Interactive.
Dinamic fell into financial turmoil during the first half of 2001. The publisher's ventures related to the dot-com bubble—such as the massively multiplayer online role-playing game La Prisión—proved unsuccessful, and the company was caught in the global dot-com collapse. By early March, rumors had spread that Dinamic was in danger of closing. The company responded that only its online division was being shuttered, and traditional game projects such as Runaway: A Road Adventure were not in jeopardy, despite their delays. However, key faculty secretly departed Dinamic to join Pyro Studios during the period, and Dinamic entered receivership and cut 39 jobs in late March. Dinamic owed a significant debt of 1.5 billion pesetas to multiple creditors by this time. On September 24, Dinamic announced its liquidation, following its financial upheaval earlier in the year. Although certain commentators had speculated that Runaway's sales would save the publisher, it was ultimately Dinamic's last published title.
Dinamic's bankruptcy came as a major blow to the domestic game market: at the time, a writer for VNUNet reported the closure as "bad news ... for the battered Spanish game software industry". In retrospect, David Navarro of MarcaPlayer called it "probably the most traumatic event that the Spanish video game industry has experienced in history".
Dinamic Multimedia published the following games:
Arctic Moves
EuroTour Cycling
Hollywood Monsters
M-Alien Paranoia
La Prision
Los justicieros
PC Atletismo
PC Selección Española de Fútbol: Eurocopa 96 Dinamic Multimedia
Resurrection: The Return of the Black Dragon
Runaway: A Road Adventure
PC Basket series
PC Fútbol series
PC Calcio series
PC Premiere series
Space Clash. The Last Frontier (1999, from Enigma)
Toyland Racing