ICOM Simulations

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ICOM Simulations
Type	Private (defunct)
Founded
Headquarters	Wheeling, Illinois
Key people	Tod Zipnick Darin Adler
Industry	Software
Products	Hard Hat Mack (1983) Joe Junk Man (1983) Galactic Chase (1983) Rat Patrol (1983) Pig Pen (1983) Deja Vu: a Nightmare Comes True (1985) Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas (1988) OnCue Shadowgate (1987) TMON Uninvited (1986)
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.

Following the foundation in 1983 a number of game titles for the Panasonic JR-200 were produced. Later products for the Apple Macintosh included the debugger TMON and an application launching utility called OnCue.

[edit] History

ICOM Simulations was formed as TMQ Software^[1] 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.