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- From: ckaiser@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Po-Ching Lives!)
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- Subject: Re: Status of Veteran Companies?
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 16:03:07 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- In <4e66oj$acg@ruby.ucc.nau.edu> pap@dana.ucc.nau.edu (Paul Allen Panks) writes:
-
- >HesWare - Put out a lot of really good games, ones like Shamus and Shamus
- >Case II. Made a considerable amount of Commodore Vic-20 and C-64 software.
-
- Gone. I know not where they are. Almost all of my software library
- that's not Electronic Arts is them.
-
- >Epyx - Lots of great games, too numerous to mention. Even put out an
- >ergonomic joystick (J500?).
-
- They are supposedly still in business in Carlsbad, near where I
- live, but to my knowledge were acquired by a Christian media company
- and are now creating software for them. (This is a rumour.)
-
- >Activision - After making games for the Atari 2600 (or perhaps at the
- >same time), moved on to other platforms such as the Commodore 64. Games
- >were particularly good, and the graphics were outstanding.
-
- Still around. In fact, Jason Compton claims they've made a C64
- Action Pack, but I still can't find it. ;-) However, love that
- Mechwarrior 2!
-
- >Br0derbound - (sp?) Before moving on to other platforms, put out
- >outstanding games the likes we have not seen in quite some time (Raid on
- >Bungling Bay,Spelunker,Load Runner,etc).
-
- FInd Myst at your local Computer City. That's them. Lode Runner was
- recently rereleased by Sierra.
-
- Cameron Kaiser
- ckaiser@ucsd.edu
- visit the CWI web site at http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi.html
-