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Broderbund was a large American software developer and publisher most active in the 1980s and the 1990s. Though most of their products were video games , they also published a number of home productivity software titles.
The game's design was limited by the small memory footprint of video game consoles and by the slow speed of CD-ROM drives. The game was created on Apple Macintosh computers and ran on the HyperCard software stack, though ports to other platforms subsequently required the creation of a new engine. Myst was a critical and commercial success ...
Stunts was released in 1990 for PCs and was published in the United States by Broderbund. [1] It was Distinctive Software's first game to be published by the company. [7] When looking for distributors in other territories, the game had to be renamed as Broderbund had the rights to the name Stunts. [1]
Broderbund Software, Inc. (stylized as Brøderbund) was an American maker of video games, educational software, and productivity tools.Broderbund is best known for the 8-bit video game hits Choplifter, Lode Runner, Karateka, and Prince of Persia (all of which originated on the Apple II), as well as The Print Shop—originally for printing signs and banners on dot matrix printers—and the Myst ...
It was Broderbund's second best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987, [19] and sales had surpassed 300,000 copies by August 1984. [20] It was the top-selling computer game in the United States during 1983.
The game was re-released for MS-DOS twice, once in 1992 by Activision as The Manhole: New and Enhanced (including a Windows 3.1 version) and again in 1995 as The Manhole: CD-ROM Masterpiece Edition by Broderbund, which featured the use of color, music, voice, sound effects, and some new characters.
Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon is a children's video game developed by Capitol Multimedia, published by Broderbund and released in 1996 for the Macintosh and Windows and Windows 3.x systems. Plot [ edit ]
Breakers is a science fiction-themed interactive fiction video game published in 1986 by Synapse Software, which was then a division of Broderbund.It was released for the Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.