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Synapse Software Corporation (marketed as SynSoft in the UK) was an American computer game development and publishing company active from 1981 through 1984. They developed primarily for the Atari 8-bit computers, and later the Commodore 64 and other systems. Synapse is known for a series of highly regarded arcade-style games such as ''Fort Apocalypse'', ''Blue Max'', ''Pharaoh's Curse'', and ''Shamus'', including some unusual games not based on established concepts, like ''Necromancer'' and ''Alley Cat''. Synapse was founded by Ihor Wolosenko and Ken Grant. The company was purchased by Brøderbund in late 1984. ==Action games== Synapse's first releases were for the Atari 8-bit computers, starting in 1981. Some of their early games were based on elements of contemporary arcade games. ''Protector'' (1981) uses elements of ''Defender'', and ''Dodge Racer'' (1981) is a clone of Sega's ''Head On''. ''Chicken'' (1982) has the same basic concept as ''Kaboom!'' for the Atari 2600 (which itself is similar to the arcade game ''Avalanche''), A notable early release is ''Nautilus'', which features a split-screen so two players can play at once. In one-player mode the user controls a submarine, the ''Nautilus'', in the lower screen while the computer controls a destroyer, the ''Colossus'', in the upper screen. Similar to Atari's Combat, in two-player mode another player takes control of the destroyer. The same basic system was later re-used in other games, including ''Shadow World''. ''Survivor'' is the first home computer game to support up to four players, a side-effect of the first generation Atari machines including four joystick ports. In this case all of the players take command of different parts of a single spaceship; in single-player mode it operates like the ship in ''Asteroids'', while in two player mode one drives and the other fires in any direction. A second wave of more popular, better advertised, games followed in 1982-3. These include ''Shamus'', ''Necromancer'', ''Rainbow Walker'', ''Blue Max'', ''Fort Apocalypse'', and ''Alley Cat''. It was during this period that the company branched out and started supporting other systems, especially the Commodore 64, which became a major platform. Many of Synapse's games made their way to the UK as part of the initial wave of U.S. Gold-distributed imports (under the "Synsoft" imprint). Some were also converted to run on the more popular UK home computers, such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Synapse released an official port of the arcade game ''Zaxxon'' for the Commodore 64. The Atari port was from Datasoft. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Synapse Software」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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