Broderbund games

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Have you heard of Broaderbund the video game series

Their name was on dozens and dozens of old MS-DOS games I used to play in the-...wait, didn't I just answer this, like, two hours ago?
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I keep having the weirdest senses of deja vu lately..

What year was Broderbund founded

This may help in your quest for knowledge.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brøderbund[/url]

I know you found it on Wikipedia but you have to tell me what year Broderbund was founded

Now you have got me wondering; is there some reason you cannot check wikipedia yourself?

Yes the reason is that can't check my self because it spoils my message

Eh, sorry.
1980?

You are right 1980 but who are the people founded Broderbund?

Is Brouderbund the video game company still active

Ya know, that last question got me wondering: What HAS this company been up to in recent years? I knew them well for some of their older games, but havent heard a thing of them for a long while, so I went and looked this up.

I immediately regretted doing this. Ugh. How the mighty have fallen! They are Broderbund in name only now; the original company/studio is utterly dead. Like what often happens when EA eats a developer, except in this case they were bought out in 1998 by "The Learning Company", which is never a good sign.

There was so much good stuff that was published/developed by these guys way back when. My own personal favorite example being the NA version of Guardian Legend on the NES. Other notable games: Carmen Sandiego, Raid on Bungeling Bay, Choplifter, Lode Runner, Myst, Prince of Persia, Karateka (which I may have spelled wrong), Spelunker... the list just goes on and on, though the list is very definitely incomplete on the wiki page.

Way too many games on that list that I'm familiar with. They really were a very large publisher and they put out a ton of great stuff. And now.... educational software and "utilities". Oh, there's some games still there now, but they're all things like those "hidden object" games that like to appear on mobile or PC lately.

The old Broderbund is long gone. Depressing, really...

Didn't Broderbund the company defunct in 1998 and got replaced by The Learning Company

Prince of Persia, Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame, Zoombinis, and the Living Books are old favorites of mine. I still have them.

How many Living Books Computer games are there in all

I have three Broderbund NES games. Raid on Bungeling Bay, Spelunker, and Lode Runner. I liked the Carmen San Diego series as well. My computer use was limited as a child so there are many games I had never played. So many games I have bought over the years has kept me from digging up old DOS games from the variety of archives online.