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- ACCOLADE SHIPS FIRST EVER INTERACTIVE COMIC BOOK
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- ACCOLADE - 20813 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Cupertino, California 95014
- annouces the release of "ACCOLADE'S COMICS." The following is the text from
- their release information brochure.
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- Cupertino, California, March 27, 1987 - Entertainment software publisher
- Accolade, Inc. today announced the availability of "Accolade's Comics," the
- first interactive comic book for the Commodore 64/128 and Apple II personal
- computers.
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- Developed by Distinctive Software, Inc., Vancouver, Canada, "Accolade's
- Comics" is comprised of three disks and retails at a suggested price of
- $39.95 for Commodore and $44.95 for Apple through mass merchants and
- specialty stores.
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- Featuring two distinct themes and dozens of major and minor story lines
- incorporating eight arcade-like games, "Accolade's Comics" is the story of a
- spy named Steve Keene whose mission is to foil evil plots for the Chief of
- Spystuff, Inc.
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- Unlike text adventure games, "Accolade's Comics" offers the user the
- experience of reading a comic book on a computer screen, combining detailed
- graphics and humoro