FINAL CHALLENGE: FUN FACT!

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! Hasbro currently owns the rights to all EPYX's games.
Actually that's not true, Bridgestone Multimedia owns some of them along with all the Starpath games.

FUN FACT: By the time Pesterminator was made Jon Valesh was so embarrassed of having anything to do with the game he put his initials in the background graphics of the sewer level.

my bad! no point for me on that one

FUN FACT! Jon Freeman who was co creator of Epyx went to work for EA in 1992

[Keir]

Man, I am SO going to have to make up for all this missed work on Monday!

FUN FACT: Color Dreams is now called Star-Dot Technologies.

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! 1986 was the year Epyx moved their operation to Redwood City, California.

my facts are getting less and less FUN and more....drab, lol

[Keir]

DRAB FACT:

Uh, I mean...

FUN FACT: Color Dreams’ Wisdom Tree division sent out 3-foot Bible Adventures cardboard displays and even a few VHS "demos" showing footage of the game to Christian stores.

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! in 1988 Data East sued Epyx over its C64 game, World Karate Championship, because they felt it was a blatant ripoff of Karate Champ

[Keir]

Dude, it’s just us!

FUN FACT: Sunday Funday includes graphic hacks of previous Color Dreams games Menace Beach and Free Fall.

[Cmosfm]

me n keir - SCORIN MACHINES!

FUN FACT! in the 1988 case where Data East sued Epyx, Data East won...the court forbade Epyx from further display or sale of World Karate Championship, and also ordered the company to issue a recall.

[Keir]

FUN FACT: The original release of Color Dreams’ Bible Adventures had a glitch in the Noah’s Ark game that prevented the user from obtaining all of the necessary creatures to complete the game.

I think I have to go now...

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! in the 1988 case where Data East sued Epyx, Epyx took it to a higher court where THEY won. The ruling stated "a discerning 17.5-year-old boy could not regard the works as substantially similar."

17.5? O_O

bye keir!

[le geek]

FUN FACT: Many Color Dreams Carts are "Baby Blue"

[downfall]

FUN FACT: Color Dreams' games were released at a cost less than the average NES game at the time!

[le geek]

FUN FACT: Konami Released Three Carts for the Atari 2600 - Strategy X, Pooyan and Marine Wars

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! in 2000 Psygnosis abandoned the PC market for good

[le geek]

FUN FACT: Color Dreams was founded in 1989 by Dan Lawton, Eddie Lin, and Phil Mikkelson

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! in 1998 Eidos Interactive bought Psygnosis' European operations.

[downfall]

FUN FACT: Color Dreams' Wisdom Tree branch has released 22 games on various systems, including the NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, and more!

[le geek]

FUN FACT:
Captain Comic is a port of the PC game by Michael Denio.

[tholly]

FUN FACT! Color Dreams' Ron Risley is today a successful doctor and Dan Lawton, well just like a lot of other Color Dreams employees working at StarDot Technologies. Eddy Lin, another of the founders, is selling custom frames for artwork, the company is unknown and I haven't been able to find him either.

[downfall]

FUN FACT:

"the following items
were consumed during
the making of lynx
lemmings by Psygnosis;

520 cans of coke
200 bags of crisps
108 custom built sandwhiches
300 cups of tea
64 tracker bars
1 fruesli bar (blech!)

and a lot of irreplacable
fossil fuels"

LOL

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! By Jan 1, 1997 Psygnosis had eight development studios world wide and over 700 employees.

Geez, that's a lame FUN FACT...gotta find more psygnosis stuff

[tholly]

FUN FACT! Konami means "small wave"

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! Blinx for Xbox was hailed as a 4-D game.

[tholly]

FUN FACT! Blinx for Xbox was hailed as a 4-D game.


FUN FACT! Dan Lawton said "Even a very bad game costs about $200,000 to produce."

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! Blinx 2 is now being hailed as a 5-D game!

O_O

[tholly]

FUN FACT! Blinx 2 is now being hailed as a 5-D game!

O_O


FUN FACT! Dan Lawton said "Christian book stores number about 9000 at any given time, and they all wanted to have our games. That's even more stores than Toys R us."

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! In December 1978 Fiscal reports show Microsoft's year end sales to exceed $1 million dollars. Small fries for them today. LOL

[Keir]

FUN FACT: Color Dreams’ Bible Adventures cartridge was available in both black and blue cases.

[le geek]

Stephem Landrum (Programmer of Super Cycle) Jumped Ship to EA to work on Skate or Die!

[Keir]

FUN FACT: In late 1998, Eidos Interactive bought Psygnosis’ European operations.

[tholly]

FUN FACT! When Gates of Zendocon is finally over, you’re awarded with a huge, seven-digit score, but it doesn't mean much.

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! February 1983 - Paul Allen resigns as Microsoft's Executive Vice President, but he remains on the Board of Directors.

[tholly]

FUN FACT! Dan Lawton said Color Dreams made unliscensed NES games because Nintendo charged us $11 for each game cartridge, with a minimum purchase quantity and 6 months to deliver.

[Keir]

Sorry, just realised my last Psygnosis one was a repeat. I won’t count that.

FUN FACT: Earlier this year, the Kansas City Police Department reported that two kids broke into someone's home and demanded an Xbox console and some games.

[tholly]

in video game magazine issue march 1984, Mike Katz, president of Epyx, offers some insights into the software design of this up and coming force in the industry

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! Epyx is best known for its development on the Atari Lynx

[tholly]

FUN FACT! Happy Camper was supposedly complete and ready to ship, but didn't, Dan Lawton denied it, saying "no all completed games were released."

[Keir]

FUN FACT: Color Dreams’ games were frequently revised to keep up with Nintendo's constant change of the "lock out" chip and to fix bugs found in the earlier releases.

[Mayhem]

FUN FACT: Many of Epyx's great C64 programmers were actually taken from Starpath when the company collapsed.

[tholly]

FUN FACT! In September 1982 Commodore Business Machines begins shipping the Commodore 64. Suggested retail price is US$595

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! April 1993 - People licensed to the Windows opperating system now totals more than 25 million users.

Damn my facts are lame

[Azazel]

Fun Fact! Magic Knight Rayearth was the last US Sega Saturn game.

[tholly]

FUN FACT! 1991 - a color dreams employee suggests Bible Games as a type of games to create.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Fun Fact!
Microsoft loses money on every console they sell!
(Heheh 8-) )

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! DO you have Microsoft Word? You should have, it's been out since 1983

[tholly]

FUN FACT! Mega Man accquires the weapon / skill of defeated bosses.

[downfall]

FUN FACT: The xbox weights approximately 4 kg, or 8.82 lbs!

[Cmosfm]

Fun Fact! Halo for PC was a major dissapointment, just an average port and very very late.

[Keir]

FUN FACT: Color Dreams’ Robert Bonifacio also worked on various C64 games.

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! Epyx liked olympic style games, they made Winter, Summer & California Games!

[Keir]

FUN FACT: Color Dreams’ Robert Bonifacio used to work for COSMI, but went to Color Dreams when COSMI decided not to publish games anymore.

[Mayhem]

FUN FACT: The original release of Impossible Mission for C64 has a timing error when playing the NTSC version on a PAL causing your agent to be fried anywhere in the room in certain circumstances.

[Cmosfm]

Fun Fact - by 1989, Epyx was bankrupt. :(

[downfall]

FUN FACT: The Color Dreams logo was designed by Nina Bedner for $100.

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! Konami was founded by Kagemasa Kozuki

[Keir]

FUN FACT: Color Dreams’ Robert Bonifacio’s first game “The Bonifas” was written for Atari, but was bought by COSMI and renamed “Aztec Challenge”. It was COSMI’s first hit game.

[Mayhem]

FUN FACT: In 1985, Epyx took their 3 Dunjonquest games, revamped them with new graphics and released it in one package called "Temple of Apshai Trilogy".

[tholly]

FUN FACT! Keir's top 10 Epyx games are : Jumpman, Jumpman Jr., Legend of Blacksilver, Sword of Fargoal, Temple of Apshai Trilogy, Gateway to Apshai, Impossible Mission, Rogue, Axe of Rage, Pitstop

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT! in 1989 EPYX filed for Chapter 11

[Mayhem]

FUN FACT: Robert Bonifacio was really THE only person at Cosmi in the early days aside from Paul Norman!

[Keir]

FUN FACT: Very early releases of the Commodore 64 used VIC-20 cases.

[Crush Crawfish]

FUN FACT: Color Dreams' game Captain Comic was based on the shareware PC game of the same name.

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT - the sound and music for EPYX summer games was figured out by hand and custom coded.

[Mayhem]

FUN FACT: Early C64 releases by Epyx were published by CBS games.

Btw I've had a look back through the thread and noticed at least one error: Capcom actually stands for CAPsule COMputers ;)

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT - The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit computer that uses Commodore DOS instead of MS Dos or Windows

[tholly]

FUN FACT! Viewtiful Joe 2 is an upcoming release from Capcom...watch for it in stores soon.

[Crush Crawfish]

FUN FACT: Color Dreams' game Crystal mines has a level select code.

[Mayhem]

FUN FACT: Microsoft have spent more than $1BN on Xbox Live since it started.

Btw C64 actually uses Microsoft DOS v2 :p

[Crush Crawfish]

FUN FACT: Microsoft owns rare.

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT - Commodore 64 - In fact, for the most part it cannot run IBM or Macintosh computer programs

[tholly]

FUN FACT 1/7/84 - At the Winter CES, Commodore Business Machines shows the SX-64, formerly called Executive 64. It now includes a 5-inch monitor, and one 170 KB 5 1/4 disk drive, for US$995

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT - Bill Gates Owns Microsoft :P

[Keir]

FUN FACT: Color Dreams programmer Charles Johnson went on to teach C++ classes in Texas.

[Mayhem]

FUN FACT: A novel feature of Summer Games II is the ability to also play Summer Games I at the same time, allowing for a competition over 16 events.

[Cmosfm]

FUN FACT - Summer Games was written in assembly code (EPYX)

[Crush Crawfish]

FUN FACT: Gateway to Apshai was designed by Matt Ferguson.