Big Five Software

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

Big Five Software (aka 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 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).

Their most successful[2] 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.[3]

Games

  • Attack Force (1980, TRS-80)
  • Cosmic Fighter (1980, TRS-80)
  • Galaxy Invasion (1980, TRS-80)
  • Meteor Mission (1980, TRS-80)
  • Meteor Mission 2 (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)
  • Bounty Bob Strikes Back! (1985, originally released for Atari 8-bit)

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