Big Five Software

Big Five Software
Industry Video games
Founded 1980s
Headquarters Van Nuys, California, United States
Key people
 Bill Hogue
Jeff Konyu
Products Miner 2049er
Bounty Bob Strikes Back!
Website http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/

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.[1] The company released games for the Tandy TRS-80 and Atari 8-bit computers. Most of its 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).[2]

Their most successful[3] game was original: the 10 stage platformer Miner 2049er, released for the Atari 8-bit family in 1982 and widely ported to other systems.

Big Five also sold an Atari joystick interface called TRISSTICK which was popular with TRS-80 owners.[4]

Games

  • Attack Force (1980, TRS-80)
  • Cosmic Fighter (1980, TRS-80)
  • Galaxy Invasion (1980, TRS-80)
  • Meteor Mission (1980, TRS-80)
  • Meteor Mission II (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 family)
  • Bounty Bob Strikes Back! (1985, originally released for Atari 8-bit family)

References

  1. ↑ "Big Five Software". Trs-80.org. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
  2. ↑ Hawken, Kieren (2016). Jones, Darran, ed. "Big Five Software". Retro Gamer. No. 157. Bournemouth, UK: Imagine Publishing. pp. 70–75. ISSN 1742-3155.
  3. ↑ "The Company". Big Five Software. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
  4. ↑ Reed, Matthew. "TRISSTICK". TRS-80.org.
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