Appaloosa Interactive

From Sega Retro

https://segaretro.org/images/3/30/AppaloosaInteractive_logo.png

AppaloosaInteractive logo.png
Appaloosa Interactive
Founded: 1983[1]
Defunct: 2006
Headquarters:
Palo Alto, California, United States

This teeny-tiny article needs some work. You can help us by expanding it.


Appaloosa Interactive, known as Novotrade until the mid-1990s, was a computer and console game developer spanning a wide variety of genres and subjects, but they are best known for Sega's Ecco the Dolphin series and various computer games. They appear to have disappeared sometime after mid-2006. Novotrade was founded in 1983 by the Hungarian government as a way to get hold of foreign currency, of which the supply was always low in the eastern bloc; however, the company set up office in Palo Alto, Calif., in the early 1990s after Hungary reverted to being a republic.

Their former website, http://www.appaloosacorp.com/, has about a decade's worth of updates on the Internet Archive, but most, if not all, are incomplete (the domain is presently held by a squatter). They also maintained a website for the Ecco the Dolphin Dreamcast game, http://www.eccothedolphin.com/, but nowadays it redirects to a still image of a dolphin.

There was also Novotrade 2C which was a distribution arm in Hungary.

Softography

Master System

Mega Drive

Game Gear

Mega-CD

32X

Pico

Saturn

Dreamcast

PlayStation 2

Windows PC

References

  1. http://www.appaloosacorp.com/who/who.html (Wayback Machine: 2000-10-18 08:16)