Key people Bill Hogue, Jeff Konyu Founded 1980 | Headquarters California | |
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Industry Video game industryInteractive entertainment Products Meteor Mission IIMiner 2049erBounty Bob Strikes Back! Video games Miner 2049er, Bounty Bob Strikes Back!, Meteor Mission II, Stellar Escort, Miner 2049er Volume II |
Big five software defunct game developers in 5 games pt 206
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.
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