Software 2000
Software 2000 was a German company that dealt with the creation of computer games.
Company History
The company in 1987 in Plön (Schleswig -Holstein) was founded by brothers Andreas and Marc Wardenga. Later the company moved to Eutin. It games for the Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, DOS and Windows were released. Among the most famous games series included the Bundesliga manager series and the series Pizza Connection / Pizza Syndicate.
Especially with the Bundesliga Manager series, the company has developed a new and innovative for its time concept, thereby reaching particularly in German-speaking to some fame. The combination of the genres of sports and economic simulation was novel and reached a large number of former players. The Bundesliga Manager series is a typical calculation -heavy simulations, for which the German games industry became famous in the early 1990s.
With the Pizza series and the logic game Swing the company was able to address both male and female players. The company produced with a relatively small team usually several parallel complex products simultaneously. The product range of the company remained strong relative to the German market.
The Bundesliga Manager 97 led, despite the good quality of play, due to the numerous bugs in the retail version to a severe loss of image for the company. It came to the loss of key employees and the company produced in its final stages increasingly undemanding job projects, such as games of the TV series Good Times, Bad Times. Due to declining sales fell Software 2000 in financial trouble. In 2002, the now greatly reduced company went bankrupt.
From 1989 to 1991 Software 2000 also published games under the label Magic Soft.