Big Five Software
 | |
| Industry |
Video game industry Interactive entertainment |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1980s |
| Headquarters | Van Nuys, California, United States |
Key people | Bill Hogue, Jeff Konyu |
| Products |
Meteor Mission II Miner 2049er Bounty Bob Strikes Back! |
| Website | http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/ |
Big Five Software (aka Big 5 Software) was an American video game developer of the 1980s founded by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu.[1] The company released games for the Tandy TRS-80 and Atari computers. Most of their TRS-80 games are clones of popular arcade games of the time, such as Galaxy Invasion (Galaxian), Super Nova (Asteroids), and Defense Command (Missile Command).
Their most successful[2] game was original: Miner 2049er, released for the Atari 8-bit family in 1982 and widely ported to other systems. Miner 2049er was remade by Magmic in 2007 for mobile devices.[3]
Games
- Attack Force (1980, TRS-80)
- Cosmic Fighter (1980, TRS-80)
- Galaxy Invasion (1980, TRS-80)
- Meteor Mission (1980, TRS-80)
- Meteor Mission 2 (1980, TRS-80)
- Galaxy Invasion Plus (1980, TRS-80)
- Super Nova (1980, TRS-80)
- Robot Attack (1981, TRS-80)
- Stellar Escort (1981, TRS-80)
- Defense Command (1982, TRS-80)
- Weerd (1982, TRS-80)
- Miner 2049er (1982, originally released for Atari 8-bit)
- Bounty Bob Strikes Back! (1985, originally released for Atari 8-bit)