Datasoft, Inc. (also written as DataSoft) was a software developer and publisher for home computers founded in 1980 by Pat Ketchum and based out of Chatsworth, California. Datasoft primarily published video games, including ports of arcade video games, games based on licenses from movies and TV shows, and original games. Like competitor Synapse Software, they also published other software: development tools, word processors, and utilities. Text Wizard, written by William Robinson and published by Datasoft when he was 16, was the basis for AtariWriter. Datasoft initially targeted the Atari 8-bit computers, Apple II, and TRS-80 Color Computer, then later the Commodore 64, IBM PC, Atari ST, and Amiga. Starting in 1983, a line of lower cost games was published under the label Gentry Software.
Datasoft went into bankruptcy, and its name and assets were purchased by two Datasoft executives, Samuel L. Poole and Ted Hoffman. They renamed the company IntelliCreations and distributed Datasoft games until it closed.
Software Games
1982 Canyon Climber Clowns and Balloons Dung Beetles Pacific Coast Highway Shooting Arcade The Sands of Egypt 1983 Genesis Juno First, arcade port Moon Shuttle, arcade port Nibbler, arcade port O'Riley's Mine Pooyan, arcade port Zaxxon, arcade port 1984 Conan Bruce Lee Lost Tomb, arcade port The Dallas Quest Mancopter Mr. Do!, arcade port Pac-Man, arcade port Pole Position, arcade port 1985 Alternate Reality: The City The Goonies Tomahawk Zorro 1986 Crosscheck Mercenary Mind Pursuit 1987 221B Baker Street Alternate Reality: The Dungeon Bismarck Black Magic Dark Lord Force 7 Gunslinger Saracen Napoleon in Russia: Borodino 1812 (MS-DOS) 1988 Terramex
Games under the Gentry Software label Leap'in Lizards! (1983) Magneto Bugs (1983) Maniac Miner (1983) Maxwell's Demon / Memory Mania (1983) Rosen's Brigade (1983) Sea Bandit (1983) Spiderquake (1983) Starbase Fighter (1983) Target Practice (1983)
Education Bishop's Square / Maxwell's Demon (1982)
Word processing Text Wizard (1981) Spell Wizard (1982) Letter Wizard (1984)
Other software Micro-Painter (1982)
References
External links
Adventureland Company Profile