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series of computers. The company was founded in 1981 by high school classmates Jim Nitchals and Barry Printz and achieved an early success with ''Bug Attack'', a game similar to ''

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'' that ranked among the top 30 software titles of 1982. Jim Nitchals died at age 36 in 1998.

Software

* ''Asteroid Field'' by Jim Nitchals (1980) * '' Bug Attack'' by Jim Nitchals (1981) * ''Microwave'' by Jay P. Zimmerman and Jim Nitchals (1982) * ''Raiders of the lost Ring'', sometimes called ''Ring Raiders'', by Jim Nitchals (1981). A clone of ''

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''. * ''Star Thief'' by Jim Nitchals (1981) * ''Teleport'' by Mike Abbott and Jim Nitchals (1982)

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Game Designers Remembered: Jim Nitchals
Defunct video game companies of the United States Privately held companies based in California {{US-videogame-company-stub