Dinamic Software is a Spanish video game producer and publishing company. It was founded in 1984, and its activity ceased in 1992, comprising the Golden Era of Spanish Software. One year later, a part of its owners founded an independent company named Dinamic Multimedia. At the end of the 1980s, another company, Aventuras AD, who began to produce text adventures, was born from Dinamic Software.

History

At the beginning of the 1980s, young brothers Pablo, Nacho and Victor Ruiz had their first contact with computers. In the case of Victor Ruiz, he started with a Sinclair ZX81, creating some amateur self-made games. On their first attempt as a company, they created NCM, which would later become Dinamic. Their original idea was simply to create a team of programmers, as they never thought that it would start such an intense commercial activity.

On their first months, they created themselves all the code, recorded themselves the programs on tape, designed and printed boxes and manuals, and distributed them, as well as designing their ads to publish them on newspapers and magazines. Their official debut was Yenght, a text adventure with graphics for ZX Spectrum, and Artist, a graphic design program, both released in 1984, but its first commercial success would come with the release of Saimazoom, later in 1984, which would start a trilogy, followed by Babaliba and Abu Simbel Profanation.

Their last title, Risky Woods, could be released, exclusively for 16-bit platforms, thanks to co-production with Zeus Software, and distribution by Electronic Arts, since Dinamic Software was already immersed in an economical crisis that would lead to its closedown in bankruptcy in 1992. One year later, the Ruiz brothers, with Carlos Abril (one of the designers of Phantis) and the owner of HobbyPress, José Ignacio Gómez-Centurión, would create a new company, which was named Dinamic Multimedia in honor of the defunct company, but would only be owned on a 30% by the Ruiz Brothers.

In September 2024 it was announced the reboot Army Moves Overdrive, sequel of Army Moves, and it was released the next year. In April 2025 it was announced Freddy Hardest 2, developed by Dinamic and GameZ, which will be released in 2026.

List of titles

  • Abu Simbel Profanation
  • After The War
  • Astro Marine Corps
  • Arctic Moves
  • Army Moves
  • Arquímedes XXI
  • Artist
  • Aspar GP Master
  • Babaliba
  • Bestial Warrior
  • Bestial Warrior, Gunstick
  • Bronx
  • Buggy Ranger
  • Camelot Warriors
  • Capitán Sevilla
  • Cobra's Arc
  • Comando Tracer/The Last Commando
  • Cosmic Sheriff
  • Don Quijote
  • Dustin
  • El Capitán Trueno
  • Fernando Martín Basket Master
  • Freddy Hardest
  • Freddy Hardest in South Manhattan (published as Guardian Angel outside Spain)
  • Game Over
  • Game Over II (published as Phantis in Spain)
  • Hammer Boy
  • Hundra
  • La guerra de las vajillas
  • Mapsnatch
  • Megacorp
  • Meganova
  • Megaphoenix
  • Lo mejor de Dinamic
  • Míchel Fútbol Master Super Skills
  • Narco Police
  • Navy Moves
  • Nonamed
  • Olé toro
  • Los pájaros de Bangkok
  • PC Fútbol
  • Phantomas
  • Phantomas 2
  • Risky Woods
  • Rocky (also published as Rocco)
  • Saimazoom
  • Satan
  • Simulador profesional de tenis
  • Sgrizam
  • Turbo Girl
  • Videolimpic
  • West Bank
  • Yenght

References

  • Photos of Dinamic members in the 80s at cpcrulez.fr (Spanish)
  • MobyGames rap sheet
  • Dinamic games at thelegacy.de