General Computer Corporation

Founded in 1981 last activity in 1987
Status: nomoregames
Country: USA

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aka(s): GCC

The General Computer Corporation (GCC) is a
printer company formed in 1981 by Doug Macrae,
John Tylko, and Kevin Curran. The company began
as a video game company. They later changed to
make computer peripherals.
They started out making mod-kits for exist-
ing arcade games - for example Super Missile At-
tack, which was sold as an enhancement board to
Atari’s Missile Command. At first Atari sued, but
ultimately dropped the suit and hired GCC to devel-
op games for Atari (and stop making enhancement
boards for Atari’s games without permission). They
created an enhancement kit for Pac-Man called Cra-
zy Otto which they sold to Midway, who in turn sold
it as the sequel Ms. Pac-Man; they also developed Jr.
Pac-Man, that game’s successor.
Under Atari, Inc., GCC made the original
arcade games Food Fight, Quantum, and the unre-
leased Nightmare; developed the Atari 2600 ver-
sions of Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede; produced over
half of the Atari 5200 cartridges; and developed the
chip design for the Atari 7800, plus the first round of
cartridges for that base unit.
In 1984, the company changed direction to
make peripherals for Macintosh computers: the Hy-
perDrive (the Mac’s first internal hard drive), the
WideWriter 360 large format inkjet printer, and the
Personal Laser Printer (the first QuickDraw laser
printer).
HyperDrive was unusual because the origi-
nal Macintosh did not have any internal interface
for hard disks. It was attached directly to the CPU,
and ran about seven times faster than Apple’s "Hard
Disk 20".
Presently the company focuses exclusively
on laser printers.

It is known for Pac-Man