Nintendo: Mario, etc.
Rare: DKC, Goldeneye (absolutely the game of my youth), etc.
and the other one can be Microprose/Firaxis for Civ2 & 4, Maxis for the SimCity series (which I played a LOT) or Valve (my most recent favorite, because of HL2 and TF2)
honorable mention to Chris Sawyer and his fellows for making my possibly most anticipated game ever with a demo that I played countless times, and that's Rollercoaster Tycoon. I don't remember playing any other demo as much as I played this one. of course that there are other games that I anticipated but this one was different because of the demo.
the words above were backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS!







