Appaloosa Interactive

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Appaloosa Interactive
Founded: 1983
Defunct: 2006
Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, United States

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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

• Ecco the Dolphin (1993) (as Novotrade)

Mega Drive

• California Games (1991) (as Novotrade)
• Ecco the Dolphin (1992) (as Novotrade)
• Cyborg Justice (1993) (as Novotrade)
• Ecco: The Tides of Time (1994) (as Novotrade)
• Richard Scarry's Busytown (1994) (as Novotrade)
• Ecco Jr. (1995) (as Novotrade Interactive)
• Scholastic's The Magic School Bus: Space Exploration Game (1995) (as Novotrade Interactive)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Crossroads of Time (1995) (as Novotrade International)
• ExoSquad (1995) (as Novotrade International)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

Game Gear

• Ecco the Dolphin (1993) (as Novotrade)
• Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing (1993) (as Novotrade)
• Ecco: The Tides of Time (1994) (as Novotrade)
• Garfield: Caught in the Act (1995) (as Novotrade International)
• The Adventures of Batman & Robin (1995) (as Novotrade)

Mega-CD

• Ecco the Dolphin (1993) (as Novotrade)
• Ecco: The Tides of Time (1994) (as Novotrade)
• Ecco the Dolphin CD (1995) (as Novotrade)

32X

• Kolibri (1995) (as Novotrade International)
• Ecco the Dolphin (unreleased) (as Novotrade)

Pico

• A Year at Pooh Corner (1994) (as Novotrade)
• Ecco Jr. and the Great Ocean Treasure Hunt! (1994) (as Novotrade)
• Mickey's Blast into the Past (1994) (as Novotrade)
• Tails and the Music Maker (1994) (as Novotrade) (production)
• Crayola Crayons: Create a World (1995) (as Novotrade)
• Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Going Places (1995) (as Novotrade)
• Storyware Sampler (1996) (as Novotrade)
• Smart Alex and Smart Alice: Curious Kids (1996) (as Novotrade)
• Math Antics with Disney's 101 Dalmatians (1996)
• Sesame Street: Alphabet Avenue (1997)

Saturn

• Three Dirty Dwarves (1996)
• Sky Target (1997)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
• Contra: Legacy of War (1997)
• Sega Ages Galaxy Force II (1998)
• Ecco the Dolphin (unreleased) (as Novotrade)

Dreamcast

• Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (2000)
• Ecco II: Sentinels of the Universe (unreleased)
• The Smurfs (unreleased)

PlayStation 2

• Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (2002)

Windows PC

• Tomcat Alley (1995) (as Novotrade)
• Three Dirty Dwarves (1996)
• Sky Target (1997)