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Big Five Software

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Key people
  
Bill Hogue, Jeff Konyu

Founded
  
1980

Headquarters
  
California

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Industry
  
Video game industry Interactive entertainment

Products
  
Meteor Mission II Miner 2049er Bounty Bob Strikes Back!

Website
  
http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/

Video games
  
Miner 2049er, Bounty Bob Strikes Back!, Meteor Mission II, Stellar Escort, Miner 2049er Volume II

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Big Five Software (a.k.a. Big 5 Software) was an American video game developer of the 1980s founded by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu. The company released games for the Tandy TRS-80 and Atari computers. Most of their TRS-80 games are clones of popular arcade games of the time, such as Galaxy Invasion (Galaxian), Super Nova (Asteroids), Defense Command (Missile Command) and Meteor Mission (Lunar Rescue).

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Their most successful game was original: Miner 2049er, released for the Atari 8-bit family in 1982 and widely ported to other systems. Miner 2049er was remade by Magmic in 2007 for mobile devices.

Games

  • Attack Force (1980, TRS-80)
  • Cosmic Fighter (1980, TRS-80)
  • Galaxy Invasion (1980, TRS-80)
  • Meteor Mission (1980, TRS-80)
  • Meteor Mission 2 (1980, TRS-80)
  • Galaxy Invasion Plus (1980, TRS-80)
  • Super Nova (1980, TRS-80)
  • Robot Attack (1981, TRS-80)
  • Stellar Escort (1981, TRS-80)
  • Defense Command (1982, TRS-80)
  • Weerd (1982, TRS-80)
  • Miner 2049er (1982, originally released for Atari 8-bit)
  • Bounty Bob Strikes Back! (1985, originally released for Atari 8-bit)

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    Big Five Software Wikipedia
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