ICOM Simulations
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| ICOM Simulations | |
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| Type | Private (defunct) |
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| Founded | |
| Headquarters | Wheeling, Illinois |
| Key people | Tod Zipnick Darin Adler |
| Industry | Software |
| Products | Deja Vu: a Nightmare Comes True Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas OnCue Shadowgate TMON Uninvited |
| Revenue | N/A |
| Employees | N/A |
| Website | None |
ICOM Simulations was a software company based in Wheeling, Illinois. It is best known for creating the MacVenture series of adventure games including Shadowgate.
Other products for the Apple Macintosh included the debugger TMON and an application launching utility called OnCue.
[edit] History
ICOM Simulations was formed in the early 1980s by Tod Zipnick. With the MacVenture series, ICOM pioneered the point-and-click adventure interface and later multiplatform CD-ROM development with Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective. The company was acquired in 1993 by Viacom New Media which closed its operations in 1997. Renamed to Rabid Entertainment, VNM/ICOM was dismantled in 1998.
The rights to ICOM's game portfolio is currently held by the company Infinite Ventures.
