Atarisoft

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Typical Atarisoft packaging. The predominantly red cover corresponds to the Apple II.

Atarisoft was a

IBM PC
in blue, and so on.

Atarisoft was so successful during the Christmas 1983 shopping season that the company released games for the discontinued TI-99/4A.[1] By 1984 a rumor stated that Atari planned to discontinue hardware and only sell software.[2] Despite being in existence for less than two years, Atarisoft had a huge video game library with dozens of game versions released. Almost all Atarisoft releases were produced by third-party developers, as Atari only developed for their own systems.

The Atarisoft label did not bear Atari's recognizable "Fuji" logo nor the official logos of the games, rather, the game names were written in a different typeface.

The Atarisoft brand as used by Atari, Inc. was discontinued shortly after

Warner Communications sold Atari's consumer division to Jack Tramiel
in 1984. Many additional games were in production at the time. Most went unreleased although a few were eventually released by other companies. Some games were complete, such as IBM PC port of Stargate , but never published.

The new Atari Corporation initially used the Atarisoft brand. Several Atari 8-bit computer titles (both game and non-game) were published by Atari UK and Atari France using the Atarisoft label in 1985. Atari did not use the Atarisoft label again after 1985.

Cross-platform games

Released

These were published during 1983–84. Most were released by Atari, Inc., but some of these were released by Atari Corporation later in 1984.

  • Battlezone (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC)
  • Centipede (Apple II, ColecoVision, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, Intellivision, TI-99/4A)
  • Crystal Castles (Apple II, C64)
  • Defender
     (Apple II, ColecoVision, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, Intellivision, TI-99/4A)
  • Dig Dug (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, TI-99/4A, Intellivision)
  • Donkey Kong
     (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, TI-99/4A)
  • Galaxian (Apple II, ColecoVision, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, ZX Spectrum)
  • Gremlins (Apple II, C64, IBM PC)
  • Joust
     (Apple II, IBM PC)
  • Jungle Hunt[1] (Apple II, ColecoVision, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, TI-99/4A)
  • Moon Patrol[1] (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, TI-99/4A)
  • Ms. Pac-Man[1] (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, TI-99/4A, ZX Spectrum)
  • Pac-Man (Apple II, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC, Intellivision, TI-99/4A, ZX Spectrum)
  • Picnic Paranoia (TI-99/4A)
  • Pole Position[1] (BBC Micro, C64, VIC-20, TI-99/4A, ZX Spectrum)
  • Protector II (TI-99/4A)
  • Robotron: 2084 (Apple II, BBC Micro/Acorn Electron, C64, VIC-20, IBM PC)
  • Shamus
     (TI-99/4A)
  • Stargate (Apple II, C64)
  • Track & Field (Apple II, C64)

Unreleased

Promoted, partially developed, or fully completed games, but Atari did not publish them.

Releases by Atari UK

Atarisoft-branded "Paint" / "The Pay-Off" floppy disk supplied as part of "Software Pack" in computer bundle.

All released in 1985.

Releases by Atari France

All released in 1985.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Mace, Scott (1984-04-09). "Atarisoft vs. Commodore". InfoWorld. p. 50. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  2. ^ Anderson, John J. (March 1984). "Atari". Creative Computing. p. 51. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  3. ^ "Interview with Gregg Tavares". Archived from the original on March 14, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
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