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This is a list of games by Strategic Simulations Inc (SSI), the former video game developer and publisher that existed from 1979 to approximately 2001. In March 2001, SSI was acquired by Ubisoft, who retired the brand name sometime afterwards.
Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a video game developer and publisher of over 100 games from its founding in 1979 to its dissolution in 1994 (though the brand was in use until around 2002). [1] The company focused on computer wargames then later added role-playing video games .
Gold Box is a series of role-playing video games produced by Strategic Simulations from 1988 to 1992. The company acquired a license to produce games based on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR, Inc. [1] These games shared a common game engine that came to be known as the "Gold Box Engine" after the gold-colored boxes in which most games of the series were sold.
It consist of five separate games, four of which depict various phases of World War II. Each game combines a wider view of the action on a fleet scale, as well as controls for individual ships. [1] SSI covered similar themes in another naval game, Fighting Steel, which was released afterwards, in 1999.
It was released in September 1998 in North America and Europe. The game focuses on early 21st century warfare in Asia. People's General, or PeG as it is commonly known, followed SSI's successful 5 Star General Series of World War II war games (Panzer General, Allied General, Pacific General) and their sequel, Panzer General II (PG2). It uses ...
The Masterpiece Collection is a boxed set which included six official AD&D licensed SSI video games: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (1993), Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager (1994), Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession (1994), Ravenloft: Stone Prophet (1995), Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse (1994), and Menzoberranzan (1994). [1]
Pool of Radiance is a role-playing video game developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc (SSI) in 1988. It was the first adaptation of TSR's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) fantasy role-playing game for home computers, becoming the first episode in a four-part series of D&D computer adventure games.
The section of the Forgotten Realms world in which Pool of Radiance takes place was intended to be developed only by SSI. [2] The game was created on Apple II and Commodore 64 computers, taking one year with a team of thirty-five people. [3] This game was the first to use the game engine later used in other SSI D&D games known as the "Gold Box ...