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* '' Akalabeth: World of Doom'' by Richard Garriott (1979)
* '' Apple-oids'' by Tom Luhrs (1980)
* '' Super Invader'' by M. Hata (1980), later renamed to ''Cosmos Mission''
* '' Bill Budge's Space Album'' (1980), collection of four games
* ''Fender Bender''
* ''Trilogy of Games'' by Bill Budge (1980): ''Night Driver'', ''Pinball'', ''Space War''
* '' Ultima'' by Richard Garriott (1981)
* ''3-D Game Tool'' by Bill Budge (1981)
* ''Brainteaser Boulevard'' by Chuck Bueche (1982), ''
software
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company that published games and related software for the Apple II family of computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. California Pacific is best known as the publisher of the first installment of Richard Garriott
Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (''né'' Garriott; born July 4, 1961) is an American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut. Although both his parents were American, he maintains dual British and American citizenship by birth. ...
's popular '' Ultima'' game series, and for '' Super Invader'', a ''Space Invaders
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'' clone voted the most popular software of 1978–80.
Software
* '' Akalabeth: World of Doom'' by Richard Garriott (1979)
* '' Apple-oids'' by Tom Luhrs (1980)
* '' Super Invader'' by M. Hata (1980), later renamed to ''Cosmos Mission''
* '' Bill Budge's Space Album'' (1980), collection of four games
* ''Fender Bender''
* ''Trilogy of Games'' by Bill Budge (1980): ''Night Driver'', ''Pinball'', ''Space War''
* '' Ultima'' by Richard Garriott (1981)
* ''3-D Game Tool'' by Bill Budge (1981)
* ''Brainteaser Boulevard'' by Chuck Bueche (1982), ''Frogger
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* ''Lady Tut'' by Greggy (1983)
See also
*Steve Gibson (computer programmer)
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