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Novotrade International/International House Budapest (IHB)
Hungary
Founded in Budapest in 1982. Novotrade International was founded by Andras Csaszar and Stephen J. Friedman. Csaszar served as the company's president, while Friedman served as chief executive officer. They were originally a company to develop original games, but later also were responsible for a lot of conversions between different systems. Their first games were sold outside the iron curtain to various companies like: Commodore, Ocean, Creative Sparks (Thorn Emi Computer Software), Mirrorsoft, Epyx, Microprose, etc. Novotrade began operating branches in the United States in 1989and they employed 40 programmers full time. In 1996 they changed their name to Appaloosa Interactive and moved to California, USA, while still having 2 separate developing sites in Hungary.
That month, the company unveiled its 10-month-old Internet technologies division, Appaloosa Online. The company's headquarters were in Mountain View, California. Appaloosa was the parent company and owner of two software development companies in Budapest, Hungary. Appaloosa was well known for its Ecco the Dolphin game series for Sega. Appaloosa also developed two Contra games on the PlayStation and Sega Saturn for Konami.
Appaloosa had 100 employees as of January 2001, and had produced over 150 video games up to that point, many of which were released exclusively in Europe. At that time, Friedman said, "In all the years we have been in business, we have only failed to complete a project because of our own inability once or twice." Appaloosa's final game was Jaws Unleashed, released in 2006, and based on the Jaws series of films. The company ceased operations in 2006.
Games developed:
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9212101 Arctic Shipwreck
9212102 Ghost Hunt
9212103 Dancing Monster
9212104 Buffalo Roundup
9212105 Chinese Juggler
9212106 Spatial Billiard
9212107 Caesar the Cat
9212108 Bath Time
9212109 Catastrophes
9212110 Stareggs
9212111 Traffic
9212112 Photony
9212113 Harvest
9212114 Mr. Alex
9212115 Hexagon
9212116 Bird Mother
9212117 Mr. V. (Kanizsai csop)
9212118 Turbo Esprit
9212119 Save Me
9212120 S.O.S.
9212121 Spitfire 40
9212122 Spelling Word Processor
9212123 Kempelen (Sierra)
9212124 F15
9212125 Conversion (ATARI)
9212126 Gundogs
9212127 Starship Andromeda
9212128 Seesaw
9212129 Hot Air Balloon
9212130 Boiler House
9212131 Crossroads
9212132 Kayak
9212133 Thai Boxing (Bangkok Knights)
9212134 White Viper
9212135 Blooming Flowers
9212136 Conversion
9212137 Interview
9212138 Quark
9212139 Space Tunnel
9212140 Excalibur
9212141 Donald Duck
9212142 ST Art (Graphic Director)
9212143 Colour Levels
9212144 Devil's Wheel
9212145 Animator (Film Director)
9212146 Zenerutin C-64
9212147 Kazettás Commodore újság
9212148 Woodpecker
9212149 Mr.Y. (Aporék)
9212150 Tour de France
9212151 Eureka
9212152 Quick Loader
9212153 Bowling
9212154 Mr.X. (Ruzsa)
9212155 Circuit Design
9212156 Escape
9212157 Code Breaker
9212158 Pneumatic Hammers
9212159 Hopping Elf
9212160 Butterfly Catcher
9212161 Gyorsmásoló software (nem export)
9212162 Mr.Z. (Szücs)
9212163 Jimmy the Self-Made Man
9212164 Riskuer (Bug Blitz)
9212165 Scarabaeus
9212166 Mr.U.
9212167 Little Teacher
9212168 Culture-Vultures
9212169 Golf
9212170 Music Box (Spectrophone)
9212171 Digitizer
9212172 Spinnaker Conv.
9212173 Answer
9212174 Wild West
9212175 Glentop
9212176 Kempelen
9212177 Nintendo
9212178 Gépirástanitó
9212179 Szövegszerkesztő
9212180 Broderbund
9212181 NINJA
9212182 Acrojetkara
9212183 Express Raider
9212184 Desert Fox
9212185 Robotron 1984
9212186 Odive (Therneszék)
9212187 Dominator
9212188 Neviki
9212189 Monochrome képkezelő
9212190 Pongyor csop.(Mr.W)
9212191 Crystal Castles
9212192 Circus Games
9212193 Waterpolo
9212194 Masters of Universe
9212195 Crystal Castles ATARI
9212196 Aackosoft poject
9212197 Amiga
The Adventures of Batman and Robin (Game Gear)
Airball (NES, unreleased)
Around The World In 80 Days
Bloodliners (Mega Drive/Genesis, unreleased)
California Games (Mega Drive)
California Pro Golf
Castlevania (Amiga)
Catch a Thief
Circus Games
Contra: Legacy of War (PlayStation, Sega Saturn)
The Contra Adventure (PlayStation)
Cyborg Justice (Mega Drive/Genesis)
Ecco the Dolphin (Mega Drive/Genesis, Mega CD/Sega CD, Master System, Game Gear)
Ecco: The Tides of Time (Mega Drive/Genesis, Mega CD/Sega CD, Game Gear)
Ecco Jr. (Mega Drive/Genesis)
Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (Dreamcast, PlayStation 2)
Exosquad (Mega Drive/Genesis)
Galaxy Force II (Sega Saturn)
Garfield: Caught in the Act (Game Gear)
Golf Construction Set
Grossology (computer game)
Holyfield Boxing
How Things Work in Busytown
Impossible Mission II (Commodore Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, PC MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum, NES)
The Jungle Book
Jaws Unleashed (PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC Windows)
Karateka
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! (NES)
Kolibri (32X)
The Magic School Bus: Space Exploration Game (Mega Drive/Genesis)
Museum Madness
Peter Pan: A Story Painting Adventure (PC MS-DOS)
Power Rangers Jigsaw Puzzles
Power Rangers PowerActive Math
Power Rangers PowerActive Words
Power Rangers Print Kit
RBI Baseball
Richard Scarry: Busytown
Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic
Sports-A-Roni
Sky Target (Sega Saturn, PC Windows)
South Park (PlayStation)
Starship Andromeda
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Crossroads of Time (Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES)
Sub Battle Simulator
Super Action Football
Tails and the Music Maker (Pico)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Mega Drive/Genesis)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Sega Saturn)
The Simpsons: Arcade Game (Commodore 64, PC MS-DOS)
Three Dirty Dwarves (Sega Saturn, Windows PC)
Tiny Tank: Up Your Arsenal (PlayStation)
Tiny Toon Adventures Cartoon Workshop (NES)
Tomcat Alley (Windows PC)
USS Stinger (MS-DOS)
Wacky Races (Windows PC, PlayStation)
Water Polo
Wild West
Wilson Pro Staff Golf
World Karate Championship
World Trophy Soccer (Mega Drive/Genesis)
That month, the company unveiled its 10-month-old Internet technologies division, Appaloosa Online. The company's headquarters were in Mountain View, California. Appaloosa was the parent company and owner of two software development companies in Budapest, Hungary. Appaloosa was well known for its Ecco the Dolphin game series for Sega. Appaloosa also developed two Contra games on the PlayStation and Sega Saturn for Konami.
Appaloosa had 100 employees as of January 2001, and had produced over 150 video games up to that point, many of which were released exclusively in Europe. At that time, Friedman said, "In all the years we have been in business, we have only failed to complete a project because of our own inability once or twice." Appaloosa's final game was Jaws Unleashed, released in 2006, and based on the Jaws series of films. The company ceased operations in 2006.
Games developed:
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9212101 Arctic Shipwreck
9212102 Ghost Hunt
9212103 Dancing Monster
9212104 Buffalo Roundup
9212105 Chinese Juggler
9212106 Spatial Billiard
9212107 Caesar the Cat
9212108 Bath Time
9212109 Catastrophes
9212110 Stareggs
9212111 Traffic
9212112 Photony
9212113 Harvest
9212114 Mr. Alex
9212115 Hexagon
9212116 Bird Mother
9212117 Mr. V. (Kanizsai csop)
9212118 Turbo Esprit
9212119 Save Me
9212120 S.O.S.
9212121 Spitfire 40
9212122 Spelling Word Processor
9212123 Kempelen (Sierra)
9212124 F15
9212125 Conversion (ATARI)
9212126 Gundogs
9212127 Starship Andromeda
9212128 Seesaw
9212129 Hot Air Balloon
9212130 Boiler House
9212131 Crossroads
9212132 Kayak
9212133 Thai Boxing (Bangkok Knights)
9212134 White Viper
9212135 Blooming Flowers
9212136 Conversion
9212137 Interview
9212138 Quark
9212139 Space Tunnel
9212140 Excalibur
9212141 Donald Duck
9212142 ST Art (Graphic Director)
9212143 Colour Levels
9212144 Devil's Wheel
9212145 Animator (Film Director)
9212146 Zenerutin C-64
9212147 Kazettás Commodore újság
9212148 Woodpecker
9212149 Mr.Y. (Aporék)
9212150 Tour de France
9212151 Eureka
9212152 Quick Loader
9212153 Bowling
9212154 Mr.X. (Ruzsa)
9212155 Circuit Design
9212156 Escape
9212157 Code Breaker
9212158 Pneumatic Hammers
9212159 Hopping Elf
9212160 Butterfly Catcher
9212161 Gyorsmásoló software (nem export)
9212162 Mr.Z. (Szücs)
9212163 Jimmy the Self-Made Man
9212164 Riskuer (Bug Blitz)
9212165 Scarabaeus
9212166 Mr.U.
9212167 Little Teacher
9212168 Culture-Vultures
9212169 Golf
9212170 Music Box (Spectrophone)
9212171 Digitizer
9212172 Spinnaker Conv.
9212173 Answer
9212174 Wild West
9212175 Glentop
9212176 Kempelen
9212177 Nintendo
9212178 Gépirástanitó
9212179 Szövegszerkesztő
9212180 Broderbund
9212181 NINJA
9212182 Acrojetkara
9212183 Express Raider
9212184 Desert Fox
9212185 Robotron 1984
9212186 Odive (Therneszék)
9212187 Dominator
9212188 Neviki
9212189 Monochrome képkezelő
9212190 Pongyor csop.(Mr.W)
9212191 Crystal Castles
9212192 Circus Games
9212193 Waterpolo
9212194 Masters of Universe
9212195 Crystal Castles ATARI
9212196 Aackosoft poject
9212197 Amiga
The Adventures of Batman and Robin (Game Gear)
Airball (NES, unreleased)
Around The World In 80 Days
Bloodliners (Mega Drive/Genesis, unreleased)
California Games (Mega Drive)
California Pro Golf
Castlevania (Amiga)
Catch a Thief
Circus Games
Contra: Legacy of War (PlayStation, Sega Saturn)
The Contra Adventure (PlayStation)
Cyborg Justice (Mega Drive/Genesis)
Ecco the Dolphin (Mega Drive/Genesis, Mega CD/Sega CD, Master System, Game Gear)
Ecco: The Tides of Time (Mega Drive/Genesis, Mega CD/Sega CD, Game Gear)
Ecco Jr. (Mega Drive/Genesis)
Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (Dreamcast, PlayStation 2)
Exosquad (Mega Drive/Genesis)
Galaxy Force II (Sega Saturn)
Garfield: Caught in the Act (Game Gear)
Golf Construction Set
Grossology (computer game)
Holyfield Boxing
How Things Work in Busytown
Impossible Mission II (Commodore Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, PC MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum, NES)
The Jungle Book
Jaws Unleashed (PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC Windows)
Karateka
King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! (NES)
Kolibri (32X)
The Magic School Bus: Space Exploration Game (Mega Drive/Genesis)
Museum Madness
Peter Pan: A Story Painting Adventure (PC MS-DOS)
Power Rangers Jigsaw Puzzles
Power Rangers PowerActive Math
Power Rangers PowerActive Words
Power Rangers Print Kit
RBI Baseball
Richard Scarry: Busytown
Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic
Sports-A-Roni
Sky Target (Sega Saturn, PC Windows)
South Park (PlayStation)
Starship Andromeda
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Crossroads of Time (Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES)
Sub Battle Simulator
Super Action Football
Tails and the Music Maker (Pico)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Mega Drive/Genesis)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Sega Saturn)
The Simpsons: Arcade Game (Commodore 64, PC MS-DOS)
Three Dirty Dwarves (Sega Saturn, Windows PC)
Tiny Tank: Up Your Arsenal (PlayStation)
Tiny Toon Adventures Cartoon Workshop (NES)
Tomcat Alley (Windows PC)
USS Stinger (MS-DOS)
Wacky Races (Windows PC, PlayStation)
Water Polo
Wild West
Wilson Pro Staff Golf
World Karate Championship
World Trophy Soccer (Mega Drive/Genesis)