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I'm pretty sure Appalosa is Novotrade - [[User:Andlabs|Andlabs]] 11:37, 21 May 2011 (CDT)
 
I'm pretty sure Appalosa is Novotrade - [[User:Andlabs|Andlabs]] 11:37, 21 May 2011 (CDT)
 
:[http://web.archive.org/web/20060504011455/http://www.appaloosacorp.com/about.html er yes it is] - [[User:Andlabs|Andlabs]] 11:38, 21 May 2011 (CDT)
 
:[http://web.archive.org/web/20060504011455/http://www.appaloosacorp.com/about.html er yes it is] - [[User:Andlabs|Andlabs]] 11:38, 21 May 2011 (CDT)
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==Pico==
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I was surprised to find a ROM of [[Storyware Sampler]], which gives credit to Novotrade upon boot. We don't know who developed most of the Pico games so I fired up the wayback machine
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http://web.archive.org/web/20010308092137/http://www.appaloosacorp.com/prev/prev.html
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turns out... they made a good chunk of them. And had some role in ''[[Tomcat Alley]]'' but that's another issue. An educated guess suggests they might have been responsible for pretty much every Pico game out there in the western world. I'm guessing all the games featured on that demo cart were built by Novotrade, but I can only confirm ''[[A Year at Pooh Corner]]'' was... because they list that on their website
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that leaves
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*''[[Math Antics with Disney's 101 Dalmatians]]''
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*''[[Smart Alex and Smart Alice: Curious Kids]]''
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*''[[Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Going Places]]''
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*''[[Crayola Crayons: Create a World]]''
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as "possible" novotrade creations, as well as a bunch of other Pico titles.
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-[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] 13:59, 6 July 2012 (CDT)

Latest revision as of 14:59, 6 July 2012

I'm pretty sure Appalosa is Novotrade - Andlabs 11:37, 21 May 2011 (CDT)

er yes it is - Andlabs 11:38, 21 May 2011 (CDT)

Pico

I was surprised to find a ROM of Storyware Sampler, which gives credit to Novotrade upon boot. We don't know who developed most of the Pico games so I fired up the wayback machine

http://web.archive.org/web/20010308092137/http://www.appaloosacorp.com/prev/prev.html

turns out... they made a good chunk of them. And had some role in Tomcat Alley but that's another issue. An educated guess suggests they might have been responsible for pretty much every Pico game out there in the western world. I'm guessing all the games featured on that demo cart were built by Novotrade, but I can only confirm A Year at Pooh Corner was... because they list that on their website

that leaves

as "possible" novotrade creations, as well as a bunch of other Pico titles.

-Black Squirrel 13:59, 6 July 2012 (CDT)