In late 1996, id Software released VQuake, a port of the Quake engine to support hardware accelerated rendering on graphics cards using Rendition Vérité chipset.

May 5 - id Software releases Wolfenstein 3D, which popularized the first-person shooter genre for the PC.

Hazardous Software have released their game Achron for Linux.

December 10 - id Software releases Doom, a seminal first-person shooter that uses advanced 3D graphics for computer games.

Hi-Tech Software released a budget labeled computer game for the Commodore 64 in 1990 called Atom Ant: Up and Atom.

In 2008, Likewise Software released an implementation of the DCE 1.1 reference.

Alternative Software released the ZX Spectrum version only due to popular demand, since by 1992 the Spectrum was no longer a commercially viable platform.

Relentless Software released a Buzz!

Alternative Software released a computer game based on Count Duckula called - No Sax Please, We're Egyptian!

May 31 - id Software released Quake.