Software 2000 was a video game developer and publisher based in Germany.

The company was formed in 1987 in Eutin

Eutin

Eutin is the district capital of Eastern Holstein located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2005, it had some 17,000 inhabitants....

, Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...

, by brothers Andreas and Marc Wardenga. They produced and published games for various formats, originally the Atari ST

Atari ST

The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals...

 and Amiga

Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...

 platforms, and later for the PC

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

, Game Boy Color

Game Boy Color

The is Nintendo's successor to the 8-bit Game Boy handheld game console, and was released on October 21, 1998 in Japan, November 19, 1998 in North America, November 23, 1998 in Europe and November 27, 1998 in the United Kingdom. It features a color screen and is slightly thicker and taller than...

 and a few titles for the PlayStation

PlayStation

The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...

.

Perhaps their most successful venture was the Bundesliga Manager series, based on the German soccer premier league. They also produced a series of "Artventure" interactive fiction games, in the German language. In the mid-1990s they produced other spinoff manager games, including Eishockey Manager (Ice Hockey Manager) and the Pizza Syndicate series for the PC. They also developed the puzzle game Swing

Swing (video game)

Swing is a computer puzzle game, released for the PlayStation and PC, developed in Germany by the now defunct Software 2000.In the USA, a similar game was released under the name "Marble Master"...

, released for the PlayStation in 1998.

The company produced several titles with small development teams. This proved fatal with the rising standards of full priced games. With falling sales and important figures leaving the company, Software 2000 filed for bankruptcy in 2002.

Games

Name	Release Year	Platform(s)
Genius	1989	Amiga/PC
Bundesliga Manager	1989	Amiga/Atari/PC/C64
Wild West World	1990	Amiga/PC
Lettrix	1990	Amiga/Atari/PC/C64
Titano (Magic Soft)	1990	Amiga/PC
Die Stadt der Löwen	1990	Amiga/PC
Das Stundenglas	1990	Amiga/PC
Cubulus	1991	C64/Amiga
Build it - Das Bauhaus	1991	Amiga
Bundesliga Manager Professional	1991	Amiga/Atari/PC
Kengi	1991	Amiga/Atari/PC/C64
Centuy	1991	Amiga
Magic Serpent	1991	Amiga
The Manager	1991	Amiga/PC
Shiftrix	1991	Amiga
Die Kathedrale	1992	Amiga/PC
Hexuma - Das Auge des Kal	1992	Amiga/PC
Death or Glory	1993	Amiga/PC
Der Schatz im Silbersee	1993	PC/Amiga only Demo
Jonathan	1993	Amiga
Eishockey Manager	1993	Amiga/PC
Die Höhlenwelt Saga: Der leuchtende Kristall	1994	PC
Der Schatz im Silbersee	1994	PC
Der Baulöwe	1994	PC
Christoph Kolumbus	1994	Amiga/PC
Bundesliga Manager Hattrick	1994	Amiga/PC
Pizza Connection Pizza Tycoon Pizza Tycoon is a business simulation video game designed by the German company Software 2000 in 1994. It was published under the title Pizza Connection in Germany and as Pizza Tycoon by MicroProse abroad. The game is centered around being the manager of a pizza restaurant in a town in Europe or...	1994	Amiga/PC
Der Reeder	1995	Amiga/PC
Ocean Trader	1995	PC
Space Marines:Der stählerne Kaiser	1995	PC
Talisman	1995	PC
Bundesliga Manager 97	1996	PC
F1 Manager 96	1996	PC
Swing Swing (video game) Swing is a computer puzzle game, released for the PlayStation and PC, developed in Germany by the now defunct Software 2000.In the USA, a similar game was released under the name "Marble Master"...	1997	PC
F1 Manager Professional	1997	PC
Bundesliga Manager 98	1998	PC
Swing Plus	1998	PC/PlayStation
Flying Saucer Flying saucer A flying saucer is a type of unidentified flying object sometimes believed to be of alien origin with a disc or saucer-shaped body, usually described as silver or metallic, occasionally reported as covered with running lights or surrounded with a glowing light, hovering or moving rapidly either...	1998	PC
Gute Zeiten – Schlechte Zeiten	1998	PC
Pizza Syndicate	1999	PC
GZSZ Fun Pack	1999	PC
Pizza Syndicate Mission CD	1999	PC
Swing	1999	Game Boy Color
GZSZ Quiz	2000	PC/PlayStation/Game Boy Color
Superball	2000	PC
Lettrix	2000	PC
Shiftrix	2000	PC
Pizza Connection 2	2001	PC
Bundesliga Manager X		PC