Spectrum HoloByte

Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.

Type| Public

Traded as

| NASDAQ: SYBT[1]
Industry| Video games
Fate| Absorbed into Hasbro Interactive
Successor| Hasbro Interactive
Founded| 1983; 43 years ago (1983)
Founders| Jeff Sauter, Phil Adam and Mike Franklin
Defunct| 1999; 27 years ago (1999)
Headquarters|

Alameda, California

Key people

| Gilman Louie
Phil Adam
Parent|

* Sphere, Inc. (1987–1993)
* MicroProse Inc. (1993–1999)

Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. was an American 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.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Games
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

Spectrum HoloByte was founded in 1983 in Boulder, Colorado, by Jeff Sauter, Phil Adam and Mike Franklin.

In 1987 Spectrum HoloByte merged with another game developer, Nexa Corporation, forming a common holding company, Sphere, Inc., and prompting the company's move from Colorado to California. Nexa founder Gilman Louie served as chairman of the combined company.

In 1992, Spectrum HoloByte received an investment from Kleiner Perkins, which let the company repurchase shares formerly owned by Robert Maxwell's companies, ending its ties to their bankruptcies.[2] In December 1993, Sphere, Inc. merged with MicroProse to form MicroProse Inc.[3] For the following years, games from both companies were published under their respective brands, but in 1996 all titles were consolidated under the MicroProse brand.[4]

Hasbro Interactive acquired the merged company in 1998, and what had been Spectrum HoloByte ceased to exist when the development studio in Alameda, California, was closed in 1999.[5]

## Games

Title  | Year and platform  | Developer  | Publisher

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GATO | 1984 (MS-DOS, Mac)
1985 (Apple II, C64)
1986 (Atari ST)
1987 (Atari 8-bit)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
Atari Corporation (Atari 8-bit)
Orbiter | 1986 (MS-DOS, MacOS)
1988 (Atari ST)  | Spectrum HoloByte
Sphere, Inc. (Atari ST)  | Spectrum HoloByte
Intrigue! | 1986 (Apple II, C64)  | Kinemation  | Spectrum HoloByte
Lunar Explorer: A Space Flight Simulator | 1986 (Apple II, DOS)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Electric Transit
Solitaire Royale | 1987 (MS-DOS, Mac)
1988 (Amiga)
1989 (Apple IIGS), MS-DOS, Mac, MSX, PC-88, PC-98, Sharp X1 | Software Resources International  | Spectrum HoloByte
Falcon | 1987 (MS-DOS, Mac)
1988 (Atari ST)
1989 (Amiga)
1991 (CDTV)  | Sphere, Inc.  | Spectrum HoloByte
Dondra: A New Beginning | 1987 (Apple II)
1988 (Apple IIGS)
1989 (MS-DOS)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
Electronic Arts (MS-DOS)
PT-109 | 1987 (MS-DOS, Mac)  | Digital Illusions | Spectrum HoloByte
Zig Zag | 1987 (C64)  | Zig Zag Software  | Spectrum HoloByte
Tetris | 1988 (Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, MS-DOS, Mac)
1989 (Atari ST)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
Soko-Ban | 1988 (MS-DOS)
1988 (Apple II, C64)  | ASCII, Thinking Rabbit | Spectrum HoloByte
Falcon A.T. | 1988 (MS-DOS)  | Sphere, Inc.  | Spectrum HoloByte
Vette! | 1989 (MS-DOS)
1991 (MacOS)  | Sphere, Inc.  | Spectrum HoloByte
Falcon Operation: Counterstrike | 1989 (Amiga, Atari ST)  | Rowan Software  | Spectrum HoloByte
Software:Tank: The M1A1 Abrams Battle Tank Simulation | 1989 (MS-DOS)  | Sphere, Inc.  | Spectrum HoloByte
Welltris | 1989 (MS-DOS)
1990 (MaS, Amiga, Atari ST)  | Doka, Sphere, Inc.  | Spectrum HoloByte
Infogrames (Amiga, Atari ST)
Faces...tris III | 1990 (MS-DOS, Mac)
1991 (Amiga)  | Sphere, Inc.  | Spectrum HoloByte
Stunt Driver | 1990 (MS-DOS)  | Sphere, Inc.  | Spectrum HoloByte
Flight of the Intruder | 1990 (MS-DOS)
1991 (Amiga, Atari ST)  | Rowan Software
Spectrum Holobyte (Amiga, Atari ST)  | Spectrum Holobyte
Mirrorsoft (Amiga, Atari ST)
Falcon Operation: Firefight | 1990 (Amiga, Atari ST)  | Rowan Software
Sphere, Inc.  | Spectrum HoloByte
Super Tetris | 1991 (MS-DOS, Windows 3.x)
1992 (Amiga, Mac)  | Sphere, Inc.  | Spectrum HoloByte
Falcon 3.0 | 1991 (MS-DOS)
1992 (TG-16)  | Sphere, Inc.
Spectrum HoloByte (TG-16)  | Spectrum HoloByte
Turbo Technologies (TG-16)
Falcon MC (Macintosh Color) | 1992 (Mac)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
Crisis in the Kremlin | 1992 (MS-DOS)  | Barbu Corporation, Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
Wordtris | 1991 (MS-DOS)
1992 (Game Boy, SNES)
1993 (Mac)  | Spectrum HoloByte
Armenica (MS-DOS)  | Spectrum HoloByte
Sphere, Inc. (Game Boy)
Nintendo (SNES)
Falcon 3.0: Operation: Fighting Tiger | 1992 (MS-DOS)  | Sphere, Inc.  | Spectrum HoloByte
Tetris Classic | 1992 (MS-DOS, Windows 3.x)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
Iron Helix | 1993 (Mac, Windows 3.x)
1994 (Sega CD)  | Drew Pictures  | Spectrum HoloByte
Tetris Gold | 1993 (MS-DOS, Mac, Windows 3.x)  | Sphere, Inc.  | Spectrum HoloByte
Hornet: Naval Strike Fighter | 1993 (MS-DOS)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
National Lampoon's Chess Maniac 5 Billion and 1 | 1993 (MS-DOS)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
TinHead | 1993 (Genesis)  | MicroProse | Ballistic
Soldiers of Fortune | 1993 (Genesis, SNES)  | The Bitmap Brothers | Spectrum HoloByte
MiG-29: Deadly Adversary of Falcon 3.0 | 1993 (MS-DOS)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
Tornado | 1993 (MS-DOS)  | Digital Integration  | Spectrum HoloByte
Gazillionaire | 1994 (Windows 3.x)  | LavaMind  | Spectrum HoloByte
Out of the Sun | 1994 (MaS)  | Domark | Eidos Interactive
Formula One | 1994 (MS-DOS)  | Lankhor | Domark
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Futures Past | 1994 (Genesis, SNES)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
Sega (Genesis)
BreakThru! | 1994 (SNES, Windows 3.x)
1995 (GB)  | Zoo Corporation | Spectrum HoloByte
Falcon Gold | 1994 (MS-DOS)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
Fields of Glory | 1994 (MS-DOS)  | MicroProse | Spectrum HoloByte
WildSnake | 1994 (Game Boy, SNES)  | Bullet-Proof Software (GB)
J.S.C. Gamos (SNES)  | Spectrum HoloByte
Lords of Midnight | 1995 (MS-DOS)  | Maelstrom Games  | Domark
ClockWerx | 1995 (Mac, Windows)  | Callisto Corporation  | Spectrum HoloByte
Reflux: Issue.01 - "The Becoming" | 1995 (Mac, Windows 3.x)  | Inverse Ink  | Inverse Ink
Reflux: Issue.02 - "The Threshold" | 1995 (Windows 3.x)  | Inverse Ink  | Inverse Ink
Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Final Unity | 1995 (MS-DOS, MaS)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
Qwirks | 1995 (Mac, Windows, Windows 3.x)  | Big Bang Software  | Spectrum HoloByte
Perfect Partner Bridge | 1995 (Mac, Windows 3.x)  | Positronic Software  | Spectrum HoloByte
Absolute Zero | 1995 (MS-DOS, Mac)  | Domark | Domark
Knight Moves | 1995 (Windows)  | Kinesoft | Spectrum HoloByte
Curse of Dragor | 1995 (Mac)  | Banshee Software  | Domark
Top Gun: Fire at Will! | 1996 (MS-DOS, Mac, PlayStation, Windows)  | Spectrum HoloByte  | Spectrum HoloByte
MacSoft (Mac)

## References

1. ↑ "Microprose Inc/DE - '10-K' for 3/31/97". https://www.secinfo.com/dRqWm.8wVa.htm?Find=spectrum+holobyte.
2. ↑ "Spectrum HoloByte Buy-Back Launches Next Generation". Computer Gaming World: 116. December 1992. http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1992&pub=2&id=101. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
3. ↑ "Spectrum + MicroProse = MicroProse Inc.". GamePro (IDG) (56): 186. March 1994.
4. ↑ "Stop Press: The Name Game". Next Generation (Imagine Media) (19): 17. July 1996.
5. ↑ Freudenheim, Milt (8 December 1999). "Hasbro to Cut 20% of Its Jobs and Take $97 Million Charge". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/08/business/hasbro-to-cut-20-of-its-jobs-and-take-97-million-charge.html.

## External links

* Spectrum HoloByte at MobyGames

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