Melbourne House is a game development studio owned by Atari and based in Melbourne, Australia. They were founded in 1980 under the name Beam Software. They are known for the early games The Way of the Exploding Fist (Commodore 64) and The Hobbit (1982) (ZX Spectrum). They are the largest and most established Australian software developer.

In the early 90s Melbourne House found success in their home country with releases such as Aussie Rules Footy and International Cricket for the NES. In the mid-to-late 90s, Melbourne House found further success with PC titles Krush Kill 'n' Destroy (KKND), and the sequel Krossfire. Unfortunately, they released KKND2 in South Korea well before they released it in the American market, and pirated versions of the game were available on the internet before it was available in stores in the U.S. They also helped produce SNES games such as WCW Super Brawl, Super Smash TV and an updated version of International Cricket titled Super International Cricket. They ported the Sega Saturn game Bug! to Windows 3.x in August, 1996.

The studio developed racing games DethKarz and GP500 shortly before being acquired by Infogrames and cementing a reputation as a racing game developer with Le Mans and Space Race (both Dreamcast and PlayStation 2), followed by the technically impressive Grand Prix Challenge (PlayStation 2), before a disastrous venture into third-person shooters with Alien Escape (PlayStation 2, GameCube).

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@davsot My profile pic is Lonsdale House in Melbourne ... about to be demolished :-(((
dct66 (David Thompson) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:46:47 -0000
@davsot My profile pic is Lonsdale House in Melbourne ... about to be demolished :-(((
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queerant (Ant Radford) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:51:22 -0000
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@WoollyMittens What will you be doing? Looking for house? Or first visit some cities, like sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne?
build78 (Marc Molenwijk) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:26:12 -0000
@WoollyMittens What will you be doing? Looking for house? Or first visit some cities, like sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne?
Stay tuned to the Adventures of House-Hunting in Melbourne! LOL.
saccha82 (Sharon Lin) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:41:09 -0000
Stay tuned to the Adventures of House-Hunting in Melbourne! LOL.

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