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{{sub-stub}}'''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.
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{{sub-stub}}'''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 offfice 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.
 
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.
  
 
==Softography==
 
==Softography==
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===[[Master System]]===
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* ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' (1993)
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* ''[[Ecco: The Tides of Time]]'' (1994)
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===[[Sega Mega Drive|Mega Drive]]===
 
===[[Sega Mega Drive|Mega Drive]]===
*''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' (1992)
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* ''[[California Games]]'' (1991) (porting)
*''[[Richard Scarry's Busytown]]'' (1993)
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* ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' (1992)
*''[[Ecco: The Tides of Time]]'' (1994)
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* ''[[World Trophy Soccer]]'' (1992)
*''[[Ecco Jr.]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[Cyborg Justice]]'' (1993)
*''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[Richard Scarry's Busytown]]'' (1993)
*''[[The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Mega Drive)|The Lost World: Jurassic Park]]'' (1997)
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* ''[[Ecco: The Tides of Time]]'' (1994)
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* ''[[Ecco Jr.]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[Exo Squad]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Crossroads of Time]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Mega Drive)|The Lost World: Jurassic Park]]'' (1997)
  
 
===[[Mega CD]]===
 
===[[Mega CD]]===
*''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' (1995)
*''[[Ecco: The Tides of Time]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[Ecco: The Tides of Time]]'' (1995)
  
 
===[[Game Gear]]===
 
===[[Game Gear]]===
*''[[Garfield: Caught in the Act]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[Evander Holyfield's Real Deal Boxing]]'' (1992)
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* ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' (1993)
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* ''[[Ecco: The Tides of Time]]'' (1994)
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* ''[[The Adventures of Batman & Robin]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[Garfield: Caught in the Act]]'' (1995)
  
 
===[[32X]]===
 
===[[32X]]===
*''[[Kolibri]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[Kolibri]]'' (1995)
  
 
===[[Sega Saturn|Saturn]]===
 
===[[Sega Saturn|Saturn]]===
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===[[PlayStation 2]]===
 
===[[PlayStation 2]]===
 
*''[[Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future]]'' (2002)
 
*''[[Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future]]'' (2002)
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[[Category:Third-Party Development Companies]]
 
[[Category:Third-Party Development Companies]]

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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 offfice 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.

Softography