Sirius Software

Sirius Software was an American computer game company that was founded in 1980 by Jerry Jewell and Terry Bradley.

History

Nasir Gebelli was the first paid programmers of the company. Gebelli and Jewell together developed the first software for the Apple II for editing images: EZ Draw. The company grew quickly and had a turnover of four million dollars in just 2 ½ years. Overall, the company marketed 160 products worldwide for the home computer Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 400, Atari 800, VIC20 and C64, PC, Intellivision, and other game consoles.

Among the most successful games of Sirius included the title Space Eggs, Bandits, Repton, Epoch, Gorgon.

Sirius also published some graphical adventure games in order to compete with Sierra On -Line, but they may hardly succeeded.

Sirius disappeared in 1984 from the market after Fox Video Games refused to pay license fees amounting to 18 million Doller.

Games

Arcade Games

• Both Barrels (1980 )
• Star Cruiser ( 1980)
• Phantoms Five ( 1980)
• Freeway ( 1981)
• Cyber ​​Strike (1981 )
• Gorgon (1981 )
• Outpost (1981 )
• Pulsar II ( 1981)
• Sneakers (1981 )
• Snake byte (1981)
• Space Eggs (1981 )
• Beany Bopper (1982 )
• Deadly Duck ( 1982)
• Fantastic Voyage ( 1982)
• Fast Eddie (1982 )
• Turmoil (1982 )
• Type Attack ( 1982)
• Worm War I (1982 )
• Bandits (1982 )
• Flash Gordon ( 1983)
• Plasmania (1983)
• The Earth Dies Screaming (1983 )
• Repton (1983 )
• Space Master X -7 ( 1983)

Adventure Games

• Blade of Black Poole (1982 )
• Escape from Rungistan (1982 )
• Kabul Spy ( 1982)
• Gruds in Space (1983 )

Strategic games

• Call to Arms (1982 )