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Fate
  
Defunct

Products
  
Computer Games

Ceased operations
  
1980

Defunct
  
Late 1980s

Founded
  
1980

Headquarters
  
Tacoma, Washington, United States

Spectral Associates was an American maker of computer games for the TRS-80 Color Computer. It was founded in 1980 and was defunct as sometime in the late 1980s. Spectral Associates sold their software through Radio Shack and via direct sales. It was a very prolific game company for the TRS-80 Color Computer I and II in its heyday.

Contents

Computer Games

  • Cave Walker (1986, via Tandy Corporation)
  • Color Meteoroids 1.6 (1981)
  • Color Space Invaders 1.4 (1981)
  • Color Space War (cassette)
  • Cubix
  • Decathlon
  • Froggie
  • Galagon
  • Ghost Gobbler (cassette/disk)
  • Ice Castles
  • Interbank Incident (1985–1987)
  • Lancer (1983, cassette/disk)
  • Lunar Rover 1
  • Lunar Rover Patrol (1983, cassette/disk)
  • Keys of the Wizard (cassette)
  • Madness and the Minotaur (1982, cassette)
  • Module Man
  • Ms. Gobbler (cassette/disk)
  • Pegasus and the Phantom Riders (1985–1987)
  • Pengon (cassette)
  • Piggy (cassette)
  • Planet Invasion (cassette)
  • Qix
  • Realm of Nauga (cassette)
  • Roller Controller
  • Space Sentry (cassette/disk)
  • Springster (1985–1987)
  • Storm Arrows (cassette/disk)
  • Treasury Pack 1 (disk) - these treasuries included (not necessarily an all-inclusive list): Keys of the Wizard, Lunar Rover Patrol, Cubix, Module Man, Qix, Roller Controller, Pengon, Decathlon, Lancer, Froggie, Galagon, and Lunar Rover 1
  • Treasury Pack 2 (disk)
  • Whirlybird Run (1982, cassette/disk)

    • Computer Games (Educational)

  • Alpha Search (educational, cassette/disk)

    • Applications/Utilities

  • Clone 80cc (cassette)
  • RGB Patch (disk)
  • Holiday Demonstration Program (1986, Radio Shack store demo)

    • July 1980 - June 1981

  • Introduced a 16K upgrade, ($75.00) an editor/assembler, plus several other utilities and one of the first games: SPACE INVADERS. They were also in the process of developing MAGIC BOX which would enable Model I & III tapes to be loaded into the Color Computer.

    • July 1981 - June 1982

  • Color Computer technical manual (book)

    • July 1983 - June 1984

  • Color Basic Unravelled II (book)
  • Disk Basic Unravelled II (book)
  • Extended Basic Unravelled II (book)
  • Super Extended Basic Unravelled II (book)

    • Other

  • The Facts for the TRS-80 Color Computer (book, Copyright (c) 1983, First printing: Nov 1981, Fifth Printing: Jul 1983)
  • CoCo 3 Secrets Revealed

    • References

    Spectral Associates Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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