Alcachofa Soft
{{Short description|Spanish video game developer}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Alcachofa Soft
| logo =
| type =
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1995}}
| location = Toledo, Spain
| founders = Emilio de Paz
| key_people = Emilio de Paz
Ramón Hernáez
Santiago Lancha
| industry = Video games
| products = Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back
Mortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico
El Tesoro de Isla Alcachofa
| revenue =
| homepage = [http://www.alcachofasoft.com/ alcachofasoft.com]
}}
Alcachofa Soft was a video game developer in Toledo, Spain, founded in 1995 and specializing in graphic adventure games.{{cite news |url=https://www.elmundo.es/ariadna/2000/A007/A007pag18.html |title=Desarrolladores "made in Spain" |work=el Mundo |author=Carolina Prada |date=13 July 2000 |language=es}}
History
Its first work was the game Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back, a comedy adventure.{{cite news |url=http://www.frodrig.com/macedoniamagazine/entedp.htm |title=Entrevista a Emilio de Paz |website=Macedonia Magazine |language=es |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090910181042/http://www.frodrig.com/macedoniamagazine/entedp.htm |archivedate=10 September 2009 |accessdate=3 March 2023}}
In 1997, it made Ping Pong. In 1998, it made Mortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico, a graphic adventure based on the Spanish comic characters Mort & Phil and distributed by Grupo Zeta. It was successful and led to similar games based on the characters.{{cite web |url=https://mortadelo-filemon.es/content?q=Y2F0X2lkPTQ4JmN0Z19pZD0xMTAmcG09YmxvZyZvZmZzZXQ9Mg%3D%3D#.ZAG_wx_P1PZ |title=El sulfato atómico |website=La página no oficial de Mortadelo y Filemón |language=es}}
In 2000, it published El Tesoro de Isla Alcachofa, a pirate adventure game which was Alcachofa Soft's first entirely independent product, without a publisher or external distributor.{{Cite web|url=http://macedoniamagazine.frodrig.com/etapa_2001_2002/aula/aventura/av-articulo4.htm|title=LAS AVENTURAS 3D |website=Macedonia Magazine |access-date=3 March 2023}}
Other Mort & Phil-based games it made were Mortadelo y Filemón: Dos Vaqueros Chapuceros and Mortadelo y Filemón: Terror, Espanto y Pavor (2000), Mortadelo y Filemón: Operación Moscú and Mortadelo y Filemón: El Escarabajo de Cleopatra (2001), Mortadelo y Filemón: Balones y patadones and Mortadelo y Filemón: Mamelucos a la romana (2002) and Mortadelo y Filemón: Una Aventura de Cine (2003).{{cn|date=March 2023}}
In 2008, it made Murder in the Abbey, an homage to La Abadía del Crimen.{{cn|date=March 2023}}
References
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External links
- {{official|http://www.alcachofasoft.com/}}
{{Alcachofa Soft}}
Category:Video game companies established in 1995
Category:Defunct video game companies of Spain