Topo Soft
{{Expand Spanish|Topo Soft|date=August 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox company
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| name = Topo Soft
| type = Defunct
| foundation = 1986
| location = Spain
| industry = Video games
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Topo Soft was a Spanish software house for 8-bit home computers that emerged during the eighties. They were part of the golden era of Spanish software. It dissolved in 1994 due to economic problems related with the late arrival of 16-bit computers in Spain. Some of its workers founded Pyro Studios in 1998.[http://www.the-underdogs.info/company.php?id=417 Topo Soft]{{Dead link|date=July 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=no}} at the-underdogs.info However, there are also criticisms, and in 2019 Eugenio Barahona and Cancho acknowledged that sometimes the planning to produce a certain number of video games affected the quality, leaving no time to "finish them off in conditions, or simply test them in order to balance their playability before releasing them for sale".Revista Retro Gamer edición en español, número 27, página 76
The eighties, 8-bits
Topo Soft published multiple games for the MSX and PC such as Survivor, Stardust, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and Desperado (published in England as Gun.Smoke).[http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/SQLlist_games.php3?misc=yes&company_id=240 Toposoft games] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520185926/http://www.thelegacy.de/Museum/SQLlist_games.php3?misc=yes&company_id=240 |date=20 May 2011}} at thelegacy.de[http://spa2.speccy.org/Instructions/TopByTopo.pdf Top by Topo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060113050813/http://spa2.speccy.org/Instructions/TopByTopo.pdf |date=13 January 2006}} at speccy.org (in Spanish)
16-bits
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External links
- [http://www.mobygames.com/company/topo-soft Topo Soft] at mobygames.com
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080201030227/http://www.amstrad.es/juegosamstrad/publicidadjuegos/publicidaddetoposoftamstradesp.html Topo Soft advertisements] at amstrad.es
Category:Defunct video game companies of Spain
Category:Video game companies disestablished in 1994
Category:1994 disestablishments in Spain
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