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Big Five Software
IndustryVideo games
Founded1980
Headquarters
Van Nuys, California
,
US
Key people
Bill Hogue
Jeff Konyu
ProductsMiner 2049er
Bounty Bob Strikes Back!
Websitebigfivesoftware.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 September 2019)

Big Five Software (a.k.a. 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 Atari 8-bit computers. Most of its TRS-80 games were clones of arcade video 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

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,[a] he released a free, custom emulation of the Atari 8-bit versions of Miner 2049er and Bounty Bob Strikes Back! for Microsoft Windows.[8]

Games

See also: Category:Big Five Software games

TRS-80

Atari 8-bit

Unreleased

  • Meteor Mission (1980)[5]
  • Scraper Caper (Atari 8-bit, circa 1983). It was mentioned in some magazine ads for Miner 2049er.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ The first version of the emulator, published in 2001, contains the "20010720" timestamp on its "Help/About..." window.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Big Five Software". TRS-80.org. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
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  3. ISSN 1742-3155
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  4. ^ Reed, Matthew. "TRISSTICK". TRS-80.org.
  5. ^ a b "The Company". Big Five Software. Archived from the original on 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
  6. ISSN 0147-8907
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  7. ^ Hogue, Bill. "Big Five Software - Emulator". Big Five Software. Archived from the original on 9 September 2001.
  8. ^ Hogue, Bill (18 January 2007) [First published in 2001]. "Big Five Software - Emulator". Big Five Software. Archived from the original on 14 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Scraper Caper advertisement". archive.org. 1983.
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