1982-1983
Fox Video Games, which was based in Santa Clara, CA and a subsidiary
of Twentieth Century Fox (the film and television conglomerate),
relied largely on its movie and TV franchises to sell its games.
Carts based on The Fantastic Voyage, MASH, Flash Gordon and Porky's,
Megaforce, Alien and Spacemaster X-7 appeared on the 2600, with
others in the pipeline (9 to 5, The Fall Guy, etc.) before they threw
in the towel. Among their non-movie games, Turmoil, Fast Eddie,
Beany Bopper and Worm War I were licensed from Sirius Software who
originally had designed the games for computers. Finally, Fox
offered a handful of original titles such as Crash Dive and Bank
Heist.
The quality of Fox's games were inconsistent, to say the least, and
after releasing a total of 17 games for the 2600 without a single
hit on their hands, they gave up and exited the videogame field.
Fox has recently re-entered the software publishing market under the
name Fox Interactive, developing games for the PC and Playstation.
SOFTWARE LIST
- 9 to 5 (not released)
- Alien
- Alligator People (not released, exists as prototype)
- Bank Heist
- Beany Bopper
- Crash Dive
- Crypts of Chaos
- Deadly Duck
- Earth Dies Screaming, The
- Entity, The (not released)
- Fall Guy, The (not released)
- Fantastic Voyage
- Fast Eddie
- Flash Gordon
- M*A*S*H
- Megaforce
- Porky's
- Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes
- Roaring 20's (not released, renamed Bank Heist)
- Spacemaster X-7
- Turmoil
- Worm War I
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