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A shoot 'em up video game written by Scott Schram Gregory and the Hot Air Balloon: 1996 Win, Mac An Adventure game and one of the StoryQuests series games. Won the Parent's Choice Gold Award. [6] The Guardian Legend: 1988 NES A hybrid action-adventure/shoot 'em up game; a.k.a. Guardic Gaiden: Gumball: 1983 AppII, C64 In the 1st Degree: 1995
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 ...
Arcade Game Construction Kit is a 1988 game creation system for making action video games. [1] [2] It was developed by Mike Livesay and published by Broderbund for the Commodore 64 on four floppy disks. The program uses a joystick-driven menu system and includes six pre-made games to learn from and play.
The Arcade Machine is a game creation system written by Chris Jochumson and Doug Carlston for the Apple II and published by Broderbund in 1982. [1] Louis Ewens ported it to Atari 8-bit computers. [1] Broderbund ran a contest from January–June 1984 where the best user-created game was awarded a prize of $1,500 in hardware and software. [2]
Zoombinis is 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.
II Computing listed it seventh on the magazine's list of top Apple II non-game, non-educational software as of late 1985, based on sales and market-share data. [3] In 1988, Broderbund announced that the company had sold more than one million copies, and that sales of the software comprised 4% of the entire United States software market in 1987. [4]
Launched on May 21, 1997, and based in Novato, California, the name comes from the first six letters of "Broderbund," which spell "Red Orb" when reversed. [ 1 ] After its parent company Broderbund was acquired by The Learning Company in 1998, Red Orb's brand continued to be used and was supported by the latter's Mindscape division. [ 5 ]
The U-Force was ranked the eighth worst video game controller by IGN editor Craig Harris. [2] MSN listed it as one of the top 10 worst game peripherals, writing "Second only to the Sega Activator in terms of all-out crappiness, the U-Force also used infrared sensors to create a truly nightmarish controller...'Don’t Touch' said the adverts for the device, in a rare example of an advertising ...