Safari Software
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Safari Software was a software developer and published founded circa 1989 in Houston, Texas. Patrick Aalto prior to founding Safari released a freeware game titled Line Wars in 1989 based on the original Elite video game engine. The first game released by Safari was Jason Storm in Space Chase in 1993. After developing several titles, Safari made a partner ship with Epic MegaGames (now Epic Games) to distribute titles they would publish, the first game to be released under this arrangement was P-Squared Productions Traffic Department 2192 released in 1994. However in certain regions where Epic had limited distribution abilities, such as Australia Safari utilized other companies such as Manaccom.
1995 and 1996 were profitable years for Safari with the success of publishing such titles as Highway Hunter and Seek & Destroy coupled with the Shareware model and advertising provided by Epic MegaGames. In 1997, Epic MegaGames bought out Safari entirely absorbing their publishing facilities into the company. Several more popular titles published by Safari were continued to be sold via the rebranded Safari Software on the Epic Games website, however in 2001, due to little demand, Epic stopped selling them directly. Epic Classics [1], a division of Epic Games still sells Seek & Destroy. All software copyrights of games published by Safari are still held by Epic Games.
[edit] Select list of titles by Safari Software
- Jason Storm in Space Chase (1993) (Developed by Safari Software)
- Heroes: The Sanguine Seven (1994) (Developed by Jeffrey Fullerton & Safari Software)
- Traffic Department 2192 (1994) (Developed by P-Squared Productions)
- Line Wars II (1994) (Developed by Safari Software)
- Highway Hunter (1995) (Developed by Omega Integral Systems)
- Seek and Destroy (1996) (Developed by Vision Software)
[edit] External links
- Closed Official Website at Archive.org
- Epic Classics
- Jeffrey Fullerton's homepage.
- Patrick Aalto's homepage, has been inactive since December 1999.
