SoftSide

USA publisherfounded in 1978-10 closed in 1984-03 status: dead

391
games
55.6
per year
7
years active

Dedicated to personal computer programming, SoftSide was a unique publication with articles and line-by-line program listings that users manually keyed in. The TRS-80 edition was first, launched in 1978. An Apple II specific version began in January 1980, followed by more individual versions supporting the Atari 8-bit computers and IBM-PC, as well as one for BASIC language programmers, Prog80. The platform-specific versions were combined into a single monthly edition in August 1980.

Wikipedia article

Notable collaborators: David J. Bohlke, George Blank and Zeh Hurlburt

Releases per year

1978 8
1979 37
1980 93
1981 87
1982 93
1983 53
1984 18

389 video games with valid date were considered (99.4%)

Overall rankings

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Common gametypes

adventure17%action/reflex11%puzzle11%strategy9%shooter8%other41%

Top platforms

  TRS-80 167
  Apple II E 132
  Atari 400/800 81
  MS-DOS 9
  C64 1
  Linux 1