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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 ...
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.
Other versions include those for the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, a licensed version for MSX published by ASCII Corporation, SG-1000, Windows 3.1x, and Game Boy. Broderbund released an enhanced version, Championship Lode Runner, in 1985, with 50 levels and a higher difficulty. The company offered a commemorative certificate to anyone who could submit ...
Seafox (video game) The Serpent's Star; Serpentine (video game) Shufflepuck Café; SkyChase; Spare Change (video game) Spellcraft: Aspects of Valor; Spelunker (video game) Spelunx; Star Blazer (video game) Star Wars (1983 video game) Stealth (1984 video game) Stunts (video game) Superbike Challenge
The games created by Broderbund featured silly humor with a distinctive style of word play with extensive use of puns, rhymes, and alliteration. This style of word play was also present, in varying degrees, in all three Carmen Sandiego television shows.
Zoombinis was a series of educational puzzle computer games that were originally developed by TERC and published by Broderbund.In 1998, Broderbund was purchased by The Learning Company, (formerly SoftKey) who took responsibility for developing and publishing the series in 2001.
The game was created in 1995, and released in 1996. [2] The original version of the game by Broderbund Europe in March 1996 came in English, French, and German. The US division of Broderbund made some minor changes and released a US version in December. As part of the US release, they changed the names of several areas of the game.
Myst is an adventure video game designed by Rand and Robyn Miller.It was developed by Cyan, Inc., published by Broderbund, and first released in 1993 for the Macintosh.In the game, the player travels via a special book to a mysterious island called Myst.