FAQ: What you wanna know?

SPOnG wants to be the IMDB of the computer games world. Our aim is to have all the information about all the games ever released, for every platform ever.

We got sick of waiting for someone else to do it. And a while ago, whilst Marcus was working at Team17 Software Martyn Brown was looking for a copy of Full Contact, Team17's first game. And there wasn't one in the building... and this company was just about 6 years old. This made us realise that when a company is small, and just starting out, it might not realise the importance of its early history. Computer games are becoming as culturally important as recorded music and films, but if we're not careful, the early history of the medium will be lost. So we decided to create an environment to store this important and interesting information.

SPOnG is basically a pet project for a few guys who are keen computer games fans, and professional web designers.

It sure was, which is why we built a team to assist us in doing it.
But we still invite other games enthusiasts to submit information into SPOnG. We'll be working with people we know in the video games industry and enthusiasts around the world to make this the most complete video games resource

First, take a look at our Search Help to make sure you used our search engine's full power.

If it's still not there, consider this: there is a listing for over 30,000 games in SPOnG... And we're adding more every day. But we're only human. If there's a game you know about, and you'd like other people to know about it, submit what you know to SPOnG. If everyone does that, next time you look for something, it will probablybe there!

Vader is our symbol and mascot. He features on our t-shirts and baseball caps. He started all this off. His first name is Spaçyn.

SPOnG started as a private project, so had to use the products which offer the greatest value to produce SPOnG, whilst retaining the ability to give us enterprise reliability and scalability.
SPOnG is hosted on our own servers and uses Microsoft NT Server 4, and IIS 4 as the web server. SPOnG data is served by Interbase 6.0. Using Linux with Apache as the reverse proxy server, screenshots and packaging are automatically processed for publishing using ImageMagick.

We could not have produced SPOnG without the following software: UltraEdit 32, GIF Movie Gear, Adobe Photoshop.

SPOnG stands for Super Players On-line Gamebase!

People of a politically correct nature please go elsewhere now...
A while ago, while working on Amiga Format magazine, Damien Noonan, Tim Smith, Richard Jones and Marcus Dyson used to play a lot of pinball. Pinball is a game which notoriously breaks the laws of physics and logic. On occasion, when a player performed an action of monumental stupidity and yet somehow managed to save their ball, get a multiball and win the game, the term, "You spawny mong!" was heard around the room along with various expletives. Spawny Mong soon got contracted to spong. And it kinda stuck.

SPOnG is the name for the piece of land which forms a projection from an otherwise rectangular field.