Английская Википедия:Big Five Software
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Big Five Software (Шаблон:Aka Big 5 Software) was an American video game developer and publisher in the first half of the 1980s founded by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu.[1][2] The company developed games for the Tandy TRS-80 and later the Atari 8-bit family. Most of its TRS-80 games were clones of arcade games, such as Galaxy Invasion (Galaxian), Super Nova (Asteroids), Defense Command (Missile Command), and Meteor Mission II (Lunar Rescue).[3] Big Five also sold an Atari joystick interface called TRISSTICK which was popular with TRS-80 owners.[4]
The company's biggest release came after moving away from the black and white TRS-80. The ten stage platform game Miner 2049er, designed and programmed by Bill Hogue for the Atari 8-bit family,[5] was a commercial and critical success. It shipped on a custom 16 kilobyte ROM cartridge (compared to standard 8 KB Atari 8-bit cartridges) and the game was ported to other computers and consoles. Miner 2049er was awarded "Electronic Game of the Year" in the 1984 Arkie Awards,[6] among other accolades for the game and Hogue.
A planned sequel, Scraper Caper, was advertised, but cancelled. A sequel, Bounty Bob Strikes Back! was published in 1985 after which Hogue stopped developing games and Big Five ramped down. In 2001,Шаблон:Efn he released a free, custom emulation of the Atari 8-bit versions of Miner 2049er and Bounty Bob Strikes Back! for Microsoft Windows.[7]
Games
TRS-80
- Attack Force (1980)
- Cosmic Fighter (1980)
- Galaxy Invasion (1980)
- Meteor Mission II (1980)
- Galaxy Invasion Plus (1980)
- Super Nova (1980)
- Robot Attack (1981)
- Stellar Escort (1981)
- Defense Command (1982)
- Weerd (1982)
Atari 8-bit
- Miner 2049er (1982)
- Bounty Bob Strikes Back! (1985)
Unreleased
- Meteor Mission (1980)[5]
- Scraper Caper (Atari 8-bit, circa 1983). It was mentioned in some magazine ads for Miner 2049er.[8]
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