Tag: Epyx

We look back at Randy Glover’s remarkably innovative platform game from 1983!

Barbarian, The Ultimate Warrior by Palace Software was first released for the Commodore 64, back in 1987. Later on it was also ported to the Amstrad CPC, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II and MS-DOS. The developers licensed the game to Epyx, who published it as Death Sword in the United States. In the game’s…

Published for the Commodore 64 by Epyx in 1984, Impossible Mission was a great game for mixing perfectly a platform, adventure and action in a single game. We’ve learned from Alex Goldblat today on Commodore is Awesome Facebook Group about this modern port of the game, available directly on your browser. It is a really impressive remake of the game, mimicking in…

Jimmy Maher wrote a blog about the evolution of Epyx games. In this story Jimmy tells about the American home computer industry in the eighties. He talks about the Epyx games Summer Games, Winter Olympics, Summer Games II and California Games. Website: http://www.filfre.net/2015/06/the-evolution-of-the-epyx-games/News Source: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl