Starpath was a

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company known for creating the

Starpath Supercharger The Starpath Supercharger (originally called the Arcadia Supercharger) is an expansion peripheral cartridge created by Starpath, for playing cassette-based proprietary games on the Atari 2600 video game console. The device consists of a long car ...

in August 1982. The company was founded under the name Arcadia Corporation in 1981 by Alan Bayley, Robert Brown, and Craig Nelson. It changed its name to Starpath shortly after for trademark reasons because

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had released a

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named the

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is a peripheral cartridge for the

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that expands the machine capabilities by adding more

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, allowing for higher resolution graphics and larger games, and by providing a connector to which a regular

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player can be connected, thus permitting larger games, stored on tape, to be loaded. Starpath merged with

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in 1984. , rights to Starpath games are owned by Bridgestone Multimedia, a religious multimedia company.

References

* * {{refend Video game companies established in 1981 Defunct video game companies of the United States