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Games By Apollo will release six new game titles in September!

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I thought I would post this from Arcade Express (September 26, 1982) while it's fresh in my mind:

www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-history-arcade-express-v01-04.html#games_by_apollo

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The folks at this Texas-based company are keeping themselves busy. Games By Apollo will release six new game titles in September. "Kyphus" casts the gamer as a powerful sorcerer exploring a pyramid. "Guardian" is a space game, and "Final Approach" involves air traffic control. "Squoosh" has a busy man stomping grapes into juice. "Pompeii" dares you to treasure hunt in that ancient city. "Wabbit" requires an egg-throwing farmer's daughter to defend a carrot patch. This game, designed by a lady programmer from Vietnam, is described by GBA President Pat Roper as introducing "a new day in graphics for the VCS". Games By Apollo will spend $7 Million on T.V. ads between now and the end of January '83 to promote their line.

This fast-growing company entered the field with its first cartridge for the Atari VCS in late 1981. A new plant providing 75,000 square feet of space is now under construction. They'll need it. GBA expects to introduce 18 games at the January Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: 4 for Intellivision, 6 for the Atari VCS, 2 for the VIC-20, 2 for TI-99/4A, and 4 games to be released for the Atari 400, Atari 800, and Atari 5200. Pat Roper forecasts that Games By Apollo will be the country's #1 software company before the end of 1983.

It sucks that they didn't get to finish some of those games.



(For anybody who looks at the rest of that page, I'm only filling the index with items I think I might need to link to from my history pages. I can go back later and add more to the indexes after I'm done converting the rest of the newsletters and other things.)

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