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Cavalier Computer

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Industry
  
Software

Products
  
Video games

Type of business
  
Private

Fate
  
Defunct

Founded
  
1981

Video game
  
Bug Attack

Founder
  
James Nitchals, Barry Printz

Headquarters
  
Del Mar, California, United States

Cavalier Computer, later Cavalier Computer Corporation, is a defunct software company that produced games for the Apple II family of computers. The company was founded in 1981 by high school classmates James Nitchals and Barry Printz and achieved an early success with Bug Attack, a popular clone of the arcade game Centipede that ranked among the top 30 software titles of 1982.

Software

  • Asteroid Field by Jim Nitchals (1980)
  • Bug Attack by Jim Nitchals (1981)
  • Microwave by Jay P. Zimmerman and Jim Nitchals (1982)
  • Ring Raiders by Jim Nitchals
  • Star Thief by Jim Nitchals (1981)
  • Teleport by Mike Abbott and Jim Nitchals (1982)

    • References

    Cavalier Computer Wikipedia
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