The Elektrik Keyboard was a computer and musical instrument store located on North Lincoln Avenue in
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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in the 1970s and 1980s. In the late '70s it added personal computers to its lineup, and began publishing
Apple II
The Apple II (stylized as ) is an 8-bit home computer and one of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products. It was designed primarily by Steve Wozniak; Jerry Manock developed the design of Apple II's foam-m ...
computer software written by programmer
Chris Oberth
Christian H. "Chris" Oberth (died July 16, 2012) was a game programmer who created early titles for the Apple II family of personal computers, handheld electronic games for Milton Bradley, and games for coin-operated arcade machines published in ...
. The software, advertised in the company's catalog and sold on
cassette
Cassette may refer to:
Technology
* Cassette tape (or ''musicassette'', ''audio cassette'', ''cassette tape'', or ''tape''), a worldwide standard for analog audio recording and playback
** Cassette single (or "Cassingle"), a music single in the ...
, largely consisted of games including some that emulated popular
arcade
Arcade most often refers to:
* Arcade game, a coin-operated game machine
** Arcade cabinet, housing which holds an arcade game's hardware
** Arcade system board, a standardized printed circuit board
* Amusement arcade, a place with arcade games
* ...
titles.
Software
The Elektrik Keyboard published the following titles written by Chris Oberth in 1978 and 1979:
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References
External links
Retrogaming Times Issue #21: Interview with Programmer Christian Oberth (Part 1)*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070715042238/http://my.stratos.net/~hewston95/RTM27/RTM27.html#Oberth_Interview Retrogaming Times Issue #27: Interview with Programmer Christian Oberth (Part 3)
Defunct software companies of the United States
Defunct video game companies of the United States
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