Opera Soft
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| Defunct | |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Headquarters | Spain |
| Products | Video games |
Opera Soft was one of the most prolific Spanish computer game developers of the Golden Era of Spanish Software of the 1980s. It released many games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and similar computers in the mid-1980s, but its games were not as popular on the PC. Founded in 1986, the company obtained success with its title Livingstone, supongo (Livingstone, I Presume), based on the famous 19th-century explorer Dr. Livingstone. Nevertheless, their most important title is probably La Abadía del Crimen (The Abbey of Crime), based on Umberto Eco's best-seller The Name of the Rose.
Like many other Spanish software companies of the time, Opera Soft did not adapt to the generational change and went out of business in the early 1990s with the emergence of 16-bit video games.
Opera Sports
Opera created a division to develop sports videogames called Opera Sports.[1]
Selected games
- Angel Nieto Pole 500 cc (1990)
- Corsarios (1989)
- Cosa Nostra (1986)
- Golden Basket (1990)
- Gonzzalezz (1989)
- Goody (1987)
- Guillermo Tell (1989)
- Jai Alai (1991)
- The Last Mission (1987)
- La abadía del crimen (1988)
- La colmena (1992)
- Livingstone, supongo (1986)
- Livingstone, supongo II (1989)
- Mithos (1990)
- Mot (1989)
- Mundial de fútbol (1990)
- Mutant Zone (1989)
- Opera Storys 1 (sic) (1989)
- Poli Díaz (1990)
- Poogaboo (1991)
- Powersports (1991)
- Rescate en el golfo (1990)
- Sirwood (1990)
- Sol Negro (1989)
- Soviet (1990)
- Ulises (1989)
References
- ↑ (in Spanish) APRIETA EL ACELERADOR Micromanía issue 25 (June 1990). Pages 6-7.
External links
- (Archived) Opera Soft profile at Home of The Underdogs
- (in Spanish) (Archived) History of Opera Soft
- (in Spanish) (Archived) Interview with Opera Soft at msdox.com
- (in Spanish) (Archived) The Golden Age of Spanish Software II: Opera Soft