ReLINE Software was a German

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company founded by Uwe Grabosch and Holger Gehrmann in

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in 1987. The company acted first as a developer for Softgold,

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, Golden Games,

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, micro-partner, and Robtek; the company later became significantly more independent and co-published games with

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. Titles from the eighties include: '' Operation Hongkong, Drum Studio,

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, Hollywood Poker,

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, Crystal Hammer,

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, Black Gold'' (also known as ''Oil Imperium''), '' Dyter-07'', and ''

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'' (also known as ''Window Willy''). Games of the early nineties include ''

Legend of Faerghail ''Legend of Faerghail'' is a 1990 role-playing video game, developed by Electronic Design Hannover and published by reLINE Software for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. Gameplay ''Legend of Faerghail'' is set in a medieval fantasy world. The playe ...

'', '' Fate: Gates of Dawn'' and '' Centerbase''. Holger Gehrmann and 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.

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