Thalion Software was a personal computer game

Personal computer game

A PC game, also known as a computer game, is a video game played on a personal computer, rather than on a video game console or arcade machine...

 company, during the time of the 16-bit home computers, like the Atari ST

Atari ST

The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals...

 and Amiga

Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...

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The company was formed by members of the Atari ST demo scene

Demoscene

The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer...

  in October 1988, in Gütersloh, Germany. The main aim of Thalion Software was to produce cutting edge technology games. Despite the technical quality, sales of the games never really matched expectations and by the end of 1994 the developers had left and the company eventually closed. The two founders were Erik Simon (of The Exceptions

The Exceptions

The Exceptions were early pioneers in the Atari ST demo scene in the 1980s. Based in German and starting as teenagers they wrote a series of graphical demonstration computer programs to show off the coding and artistic talents...

) and Holger Flöttmann. Flottmann later went on to found another video games company, Ascaron

Ascaron

Ascaron Entertainment was a video game developer based in Germany. Founded as Ascon and later renamed in October 1996 due to the possible confusion with the Swiss company Ascom AG, the company produced titles primarily for the PC until it was made insolvent in 2009.-Background and history:Ascaron...

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Game releases

• A Prehistoric Tale
  A Prehistoric Tale
  A Prehistoric Tale is a 1990 video game for the Amiga and Atari ST. The game has both puzzle and platformer elements to it. It is said to be inspired by the Commodore 64 game Dino Eggs...
  
  
• A320 Airbus
• Amber Trilogy
  Amber Trilogy
  The Amber Trilogy was an unfinished series of computer role-playing games by Thalion Software. Unfortunately, due to the collapse of Thalion, only two of the games were ever released, and Ambermoon only in a German version The Amber Trilogy was an unfinished series of computer role-playing games...
  
  
  • Ambermoon
    Ambermoon
    Ambermoon is a 1993 computer game by Thalion Software which was released in 1993 for the Amiga. It was the second part of the unfinished Amber Trilogy . At the time of the game's release, the scrolling 3D graphics were considered revolutionary for the Amiga.-Story:In Ambermoon, the player plays...
    
    
  • Amberstar
    Amberstar
    Amberstar was the first installment in Thalion Software's never-finished Amber Trilogy, a role-playing video game franchise. Although considerably more advanced, the game had many similarities to Thalion's earlier game DragonFlight, and was by many fans thought to be a "sequel" to this game.The...
    
    
• Atomix
• Chambers of Shaolin
• Dragonflight
• Enchanted Land
• Ghost Battle
• Leavin' Teramis
• Lionheart
• Magic Lines
• No Second Prize
• Neuronics
• Seven Gates of Jambala
• Tangram
  Tangram
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• Trex Warrior
• Warp
  Warp (computer game)
  Warp is a text adventure game, written in the late 1970s by Rob Lucke and Bill Frolik for Hewlett-Packard HP 3000.The game has never actually been officially released, but has been distributed through the HP user community INTEREX...
  
  
• Wings of Death
  Wings of Death
  Wings of Death is a shoot 'em up game released in 1990 for Atari ST and Amiga, developed by Eclipse Software and distributed by Thalion Software. The two versions of the game are mostly the same, the only noticeable difference is in the sounds...
  
   (prequal to Lethal Xcess
  Lethal Xcess
  Lethal Xcess is a shoot 'em up game developed by two members of the Atari ST demo crew X-Troll and published by Eclipse in 1991. An Amiga version was also created.-Gameplay:- Story :...
  
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External links

• Thalion Webshrine
• Thalion Source
• Thalion Software profile on MobyGames
  MobyGames
  -Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...