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American video game developer and publisher
Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.
Company type
Public
Traded as
Nasdaq: SYBT[1]
Industry
Video games
Founded
1983; 41 years ago (1983)
Founders
Jeff Sauter, Phil Adam and Mike Franklin
Defunct
1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Fate
Absorbed into Hasbro Interactive
Successor
Hasbro Interactive
Headquarters
Alameda, California
,
U.S.
Key people
Gilman Louie, Phil Adam
Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher. The company, founded in 1983, was known for its simulation games, notably the Falcon series of combat flight simulators, and for publishing the first version of Tetris outside the Soviet Union (in 1988 for MS-DOS). Spectrum HoloByte published games for various home computers and video game consoles.
SpectrumHoloByte, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher. The company, founded in 1983, was known for its simulation games, notably the Falcon...
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Stealey departed MicroProse and SpectrumHoloByte agreed to buy out his shares. He later commented, "SpectrumHolobyte had a lot of cash and very few products...
Tetris Classic is a 1992 puzzle video game developed and published by SpectrumHoloByte for DOS systems. It is an adaptation of the 1985 Soviet video game...
in the Tetris series. Adaptations were made by Sphere, Inc., for SpectrumHoloByte, and by Infogrames. It was released for MS-DOS compatible operating...
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released in the United States. In 1988, Sokoban was published in US by SpectrumHoloByte for the IBM PC, Commodore 64, and Apple II as Soko-Ban. Implementations...
Sarkissian (who later became President of Armenia) and published by SpectrumHoloByte in 1991 for MS-DOS compatible operating systems. A port to the Game...
Super Tetris is a 1991 puzzle video game published by SpectrumHoloByte. Super Tetris is a game in which two players can play with each other in competitive...
merged with SpectrumHoloByte in 1993 under Spectrum's name, with Spectrum as the operating company. As a cost-cutting measure, Spectrum cut many of the...
Doctor. Later, with some gameplay enhancements, it was published by SpectrumHoloByte as Clockwerx, which was endorsed by Alexey Pajitnov according to the...
top enemy aces flying MiGs. Top Gun: Fire at Will was released by SpectrumHolobyte in 1996 for Mac OS, MS-DOS, Windows, and PlayStation. The PlayStation...
On August 7, 1995, Race unexpectedly resigned and was named CEO of SpectrumHoloByte three days later. He was replaced by Sony Electronics veteran Martin...
game), a real-time submarine simulator first published in 1984 by SpectrumHoloByte for MS-DOS Gato, character in Garou: Mark of the Wolves Gato, robot...
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