Simutronics Debuts on Inc. 500’s 1999 List

Simutronics Debuts on Inc. 500’s 1999 List is today’s update from the October 1999 desk, and there is enough here to make retro PC players pay attention.

The useful part: magazine named Simutronics, the leading developer of multi-player Internet games, as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the country. Ranked 295th out of 500 companies on Inc.’s list, Simutronics has experienced 975% growth from sales of $474,000 in 1994 to sales of $5,096,000 in 1998. Simutronics’ text-based role-playing games, GemStone III, DragonRealms, Hercules & Xena: Alliance of Heroes, and Modus Operandi, attract over 40,000 subscribers and generate more than 2 million hours of game play per month. Listed pricing shows $474, so this is not vapor sitting on a press sheet.