reLINE Software
| Industry |
Video games Interactive entertainment |
|---|---|
| Fate | Defunct |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder | Uwe Grabosch, Holger Gehrmann |
| Headquarters | Hannover, GER |
Area served | Worldwide |
ReLINE Software was a German game development company founded by Uwe Grabosch and Holger Gehrmann in Hannover in 1987.
The company acted first as a developer for Softgold, Rainbow Arts, Golden Games, Magic Bytes, micro-partner, and Robtek; the company later became significantly more independent and co-published games with Magic Byte.
Titles from the eighties include: Operation Hongkong, Drum Studio, Extensor, Hollywood Poker, Space Port, Amegas, Crystal Hammer, Hollywood Poker Pro, Black Gold (also known as Oil Imperium), Dyter-07, and Window Wizard (also known as Window Willy).
Games of the early nineties include Legend of Faerghail, Fate: Gates of Dawn and Centerbase.
Holger Gehrmann und Olaf Patzenhauer continued reLINE Software as a software label in 1993. The games Biing! and Biing! 2 originated from this time. However, the planned development of Oil Imperium 2 was cancelled.
ReLINE Software closed in 2004. In February 2008, Holger Gehrmann fell to his death from a seven-story office building months before his 40th birthday. Olaf Patzenhauer died some time between late 2011 and mid-2012.
References
- reLINE at The Hall of Light (HOL)
- "reLINE: Screenshot Gallery". Web.archive.org. 2001-01-15. Archived from the original on January 15, 2001. Retrieved 2013-05-08.