The company was formed by members of the Atari ST

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in October 1988, in

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, Germany. The main aim of Thalion Software was to produce cutting edge technology games. Despite the technical quality, sales of the games never really matched expectations and by the end of 1994 the developers had left and the company eventually closed. The two founders were Erik Simon (of The Exceptions) and Holger Flöttmann. Flöttmann later went on to found another video games company,

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Game releases

# Chambers of Shaolin (1989) #

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(1989) #Seven Gates of Jambala (1989) #Leavin' Teramis (1990) # Atomix (1990) #

Dragonflight ''Dragonflight'' is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It is the first book in the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' series. First published by Ballantine Books in July 1968, it was a fix-up of two novellas which betw ...

(1990) # Wings of Death (precursor of Lethal Xcess) (1990) #Enchanted Land (1990) #Magic Lines (1990) #Tower FRA (1990) #

A Prehistoric Tale ''A Prehistoric Tale'' is a platform video game developed by ''The Lost Boys'' and published by Thalion Software. It was released for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1990. Gameplay The game has both puzzle and platformer elements to it. It has 80 ...

(1991) #Ghost Battle (1991) #

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(1991) #Trex Warrior (1991) # A320 Airbus (1991) #

Amberstar ''Amberstar'' is the first installment in Thalion Software's never-finished role-playing video game trilogy. Although considerably more advanced, the game has many similarities to Thalion's earlier game ''Dragonflight'', and was by many fans thou ...

(1992) #No Second Prize (1992) #Neuronics (1992) # Lionheart (1993) # A320 Airbus Edition:Europa (1993) # A320 Airbus Edition:USA (1993) #

Ambermoon ''Ambermoon'' is a role-playing game developed and published by Thalion Software, released in 1993 for the Amiga. It was the second part of an unfinished trilogy (''Amberstar'', released in 1992, being the first). Plot In ''Ambermoon'', the pla ...

(1993)

References

An in depth article on the story of Thalion appeared in issue 126 of Retro Gamer magazine

External links

Thalion Webshrine

Thalion Source
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