Appaloosa Interactive
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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.
Contents
Softography
Mega Drive
- California Games (1991) (porting)
- Ecco the Dolphin (1992)
- World Trophy Soccer (1992)
- Cyborg Justice (1993)
- Richard Scarry's Busytown (1993)
- Ecco: The Tides of Time (1994)
- Ecco Jr. (1995)
- Exo Squad (1995)
- The Magic School Bus (1995)
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Crossroads of Time (1995)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Game Gear
- Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing (1992)
- Ecco the Dolphin (1993)
- Ecco: The Tides of Time (1994)
- The Adventures of Batman & Robin (1995)
- Garfield: Caught in the Act (1995)
Master System
- Ecco the Dolphin (1993)
- Ecco: The Tides of Time (1994)
Pico
- A Year at Pooh Corner (1994)
- Mickey's Blast into the Past (1994)
- Ecco Jr. and the Great Ocean Treasure Hunt! (1994)
- Tails and the Music Maker (1994)
- Smart Alex and Smart Alice: Curious Kids (1995)
- Crayola Crayons: Create a World (1995)
- Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Going Places (1995)
- Storyware Sampler (1996)
- Math Antics with Disney's 101 Dalmatians (1996)
- Sesame Street: Alphabet Avenue (1997)
Mega CD
- Ecco the Dolphin (1995)
- Ecco: The Tides of Time (1995)
- Ecco the Dolphin CD (1995)
32X
- Kolibri (1995)
Saturn
- Three Dirty Dwarves (1996)
- Sky Target (1997)
- Contra: Legacy of War (1997)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
- Sega Ages Galaxy Force II (1998)
PC
- Three Dirty Dwarves (1996)