Epyx, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. The company was founded as Automated Simulations by Jim Connelley and Jon Freeman, originally using Epyx as a brand name for action-oriented games before renaming the company to match in 1983. Epyx published a long series of "hits" through the 1980s, but nevertheless went bankrupt in 1989 before finally disappearing in 1993.
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Epyx, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. The company was founded as Automated Simulations by Jim Connelley and Jon Freeman, originally using Epyx as a brand name for action-oriented games before renaming the company to match in 1983. Epyx published a long series of "hits" through the 1980s, but nevertheless went bankrupt in 1989 before finally disappearing in 1993.
Automated Simulations was founded in 1978 as a vehicle for publishing Freeman and Connelley's first video game, Starfleet Orion, written in PET BASIC for the Commodore PET. The game was easily ported to other platforms, starting with the TRS-80 and then the Apple II, the latter featuring rudimentary graphics. They followed this game with Invasion Orion, which included a computer opponent so as not to require two human players.
The company's 1979 release of Temple of Apshai was a major success. Rated as the best computer game by practically every magazine of the era,...
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