Companies long gone that you miss...

[Albino Boo]

Hispano-Suiza, they were a Spanish/Swiss luxury car maker between the wars. Produced some fantastic cars

Huh... shows what kind of books I read, first thing I thought when I saw that was 'shit guns' and the HS404 which was crap as an aircraft mounted weapon until they designed a belt-feed for it. -_-

Oddly, still better than Oerlikon...

Hispano-Suiza is one of those companies that fragmented into different parts all with the same name. Rolls Royce is the same, both the cars and the jet engines both have the name but are in fact made by completely different companies.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Rare

Why'd you have to steal my answer? D:

Spoiler: Face the wrath of the Kyary-Cannon!

Now, I don't know anything about cars in the slightest, but that's a damn sexy vehicle.

OT: Yeah, Rare. Microsoft gutted them and turned them into a Kinect shovelware studio. And turned Banjo-Kazooie into a game about Lego cars...

Between your avatar, and that mesmerizing gif, I can't seem to tear my eyes away from your post.
[HEADING=2]It's glorious.[/HEADING]
Agreed with your Banjo-Kazooie sentiment, it was such a disgrace...

OT: Bullfrog, for Theme Hospital and Pandemic Studios, for Destroy All Humans!

 

[sextus the crazy]

*sniff*....so sad :,(

Ditto. Age of Mythology was my first RTS and I had tons of fun playing it.

 

[aba1]

Capcom, Rare and Square Soft would be my top choices.

While some might argue that these still exist because an entity happens to be using the name, Calling myself Elvis Presley doesn't mean he's alive and well right now.

It is funny cause you STOLE MY GOD DAMN ANSWER RAWRRRRRRRRRRR AAAAAAAAAAAA AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

na but in all seriousness I want another game like DK64 or Banjo they just don't make umm like that anymore.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Aye, I do kind of miss Gamestation now that they're gone, or at least, absorbed into the Game collective. I remember buying a replacement 360 controller from there just before they were about to turn into Game and the guy behind the counter advised to keep the Gamestation bag as a souvenir as it was going to be one of the last ones they were ever going to hand it. Still got it - will see how long I can keep it for. It's odd, we now have two Games in town, one of the ones that was always there and the other which was the old Gamestation. The latter somehow still feels like a Gamestation a bit, even if does have the "Game" logo up instead.

I know what you mean. I'm sure it's nothing the staff are doing wrong but GAME just doesn't feel the same. It's almost like GAME caters more to the oblivious shopper who is buying a Wii for their kid while Gamestation was more of a gamer shop for gamers by gamers. I dunno, maybe it's just how they marketed it but I just felt happier with the Gamestation branding.

We had both GAME and Gamestation for ages in my town and I'd always chose to go to Gamestation instead. Funny how these things go.

As it happens, I just looked in my plastic bag collection (I recycle pretty much everything!) and I also have a Gamestation bag. Perhaps I'll keep it aside and treasure it as a memory of my long lost youth!

 

[SecretsOfMoon]

Though not technically gone, but most certainly dead to me, is Lancia, who used to make legends such as this, the Stratos.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Lancia-Stratos-HF-Group-4-'.jpg

And these days they are just fat, ugly, badge-engineered Fiats. I could think of a bunch of other car manufacturers that place on my dead-to-me list, but I'll just leave it to this.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Hispano-Suiza is one of those companies that fragmented into different parts all with the same name. Rolls Royce is the same, both the cars and the jet engines both have the name but are in fact made by completely different companies.

Yeah, the Spanish side worked on cars, while the French arm was told to drop the cars in the 30's and concentrate on aircraft engines. The French arm, I think as a result of the occupation, then adopted some really bizarre name from about 1940 onwards.

With Rolls-Royce, it's a little different, as they scaled back car production during WWII as the War Office persuaded them to manufacture V8 Renault's under licence and design their own ones. The separation of the engineering aims was slow in RR's case as most of their business came from aircraft engines during the interwar period and both of the titular founders concentrated on aeroengine design, showcase piece being the Merlin, coming out shortly after Royce's death. So I'm not sure if they were different companies per se as with HS. *shrug*

Henschel & Son, on the other hand... good lord, they made shitloads of different things that by the time of WWII, it was definitely distinct divisions that designed engines, tanks, aircraft & other sundry vehicles.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I miss Clover Studio (Viewtiful Joe, Okami, God Hand) and Pandemic Studio (Mercenaries, Destroy All Humans!).

 

[PinkiePyro]

clover studio
maxis
discovery zone

 

[Jaythulhu]

I miss TSR and Ral Partha.

WotC have never made D&D games as good as TSR did, and Ral Partha's miniatures were second to none.

 

[unstabLized]

Westwood... *Sheds tear* C&C: Renegade, as well as Emperor: Battle for Dune. Two games that made my childhood back when I had no PS1 because it stopped working, and I hadn't bought a PS2 yet. PC was all I got, and those two games were very memorable. Was fun as hell with friends as well.