ASC is an abbreviation of American Softworks Corporation, a computer and video game publishing

Publishing

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 company that was founded in 1992 and soon became a major publisher for games on the NES

Nintendo Entertainment System

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, SNES

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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 and Sega Genesis.

ASC was also the publisher of :

- the first Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto (video game)

Grand Theft Auto is a 1997 action-adventure video game created by British games developer DMA Design and published by BMG Interactive. The game allows the player to take on the role of a criminal who can roam freely around a big city. Various missions are set for completion, such as bank...

game for the PC

Personal computer

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 and PlayStation

PlayStation

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 (1997, DMA Design

Rockstar North

Rockstar North is a British video game developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland, best known for creating the Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings franchises in its earlier guise as DMA....

), before Rockstar Games

Rockstar Games

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 resumed publishing for other Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto (series)

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games, as well as the original Grand Theft Auto.

- the game Sanitarium for PC (1998, Dreamforge Entertainment), praised for his atmosphere and originality.

ASC was based in Darien, Connecticut

Darien, Connecticut

Darien is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. A relatively small community on Connecticut's "Gold Coast", the population was 20,732 at the 2010 census. Darien was listed at #9 at CNN Money's list of "top-earning towns" in the United States as of 2011...

until the company closed down in January 2000.