Eclectic Games was a game developer founded in 1978, originally under the name Synergistic Software.
that published some of the earliest available games and applications for the Apple II family of computers. They continued developing games for various platforms into the late 1990s.
Synergistic was founded in 1978 by Robert Clardy and Ann Dickens Clardy. One of the earliest successful third-party software developers for the Apple II platform, they...
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Eclectic Games was a game developer founded in 1978, originally under the name Synergistic Software.
that published some of the earliest available games and applications for the Apple II family of computers. They continued developing games for various platforms into the late 1990s.
Synergistic was founded in 1978 by Robert Clardy and Ann Dickens Clardy. One of the earliest successful third-party software developers for the Apple II platform, they are most well-known for their Dungeons & Dragons inspired Dungeon Campaign / Wilderness Campaign game, which was later expanded and repackaged as Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure. Dungeon Campaign / Wilderness Campaign is one of the earliest D&D-like; games that is epic in scope (compared to the more commonplace "dungeon crawl" games, such as Temple of Apshai.
Synergistic also published a number of business applications, including a word processor and a simple database program.
Unlike many other companies that could or did not make the jump to...
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