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    FUN FACT! by 1984 Epyx was bringing in 10 million a year and had 200+ employees!

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    Fun Fact!
    Color Dreams first game realeased for the NES was called Baby Boomer, and could make use of the 'Zapper'
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    FUN FACT: The presidents of Capcom Japan and America have cameos as Zombies in the movie Resident Evil (based on the game series).

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    FUN FACT! Capcom released Street Fighter II to the arcades in March 1991

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    FUN FACT: Color Dreams teamed up with IBS, a PC-clone company, to program games for the NES.

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    FUN FACT! Hasbro currently owns the rights to all EPYX's games.

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    Fun Fact!
    Fpyx started as Automated Simulations and wrote games using BASIC
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    FUN FACT! Capcom released STREET FIGHTER II to the SNES in JUNE 1992

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    FUN FACT: Color Dreams made a Neg 5 Volts "key-Chip", as they called it, to unlock Nintendo's Nin10 "lock-Out" chip.

    This is insane!

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    FUN FACT! EPYX was at one time sold to a media company that released christian software

    THIS IS INSANE!

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    Fun Fact!
    Color Dreams released Five games under the 'Bunch Games' label

    Completely nuts.
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    FUN FACT: The only character in Capcom's Marvel vs. Capcom 2 who didn't originate from any previous Capcom game is Ruby Heart. She was created specifically for the game.

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    Fun Fact!
    Epyx released a version of Chip's Challenge
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    FUN FACT! Capcom established CAPCOM COIN-OP INC. in JUNe 1995

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    Quote Originally Posted by 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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Keir to the nth power
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    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

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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

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