Alcachofa Soft is a
video game developer
A video game developer is a broad term for a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large ...
in
Toledo, Spain, founded in 1995 and specializing in
graphic adventure games.
History
Its first work was the game ''
Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back'', a comedy adventure.
In 1997, it made ''Ping Pong''. In 1998, it made ''
Mortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico'', a graphic adventure based on the Spanish comic characters
Mort & Phil and distributed by
Grupo Zeta
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. It was successful and led to similar games based on the characters.
In 2000, it published ''
El Tesoro de Isla Alcachofa
''El Tesoro de Isla Alcachofa'' is a 2000 Spanish video game by Alcachofa Soft. It is the first video game the developers made under their newly incorporated company 'Alcachofa Soft'.
Production Development
Alcachofa Soft by this point had be ...
'', a pirate adventure game which was Alcachofa Soft's first entirely independent product, without a publisher or external distributor.
Other Mort & Phil-based games it made were ''Mortadelo y Filemón: Dos Vaqueros Chapuceros'' and ''Mortadelo y Filemón: Terror, Espanto y Pavor'' (2000), ''Mortadelo y Filemón: Operación Moscú'' and ''Mortadelo y Filemón: El Escarabajo de Cleopatra'' (2001), ''Mortadelo y Filemón: Balones y patadones'' and ''Mortadelo y Filemón: Mamelucos a la romana'' (2002) and ''
Mortadelo y Filemón: Una Aventura de Cine'' (2003).
In 2008, it made ''
Murder in the Abbey'', an homage to ''
La Abadía del Crimen
''La abadía del crimen'' (''The Abbey of Crime'') is a video game written by Paco Menéndez with graphics made by Juan Delcán and published in 1987 by Opera Soft. It was conceived as a version of Umberto Eco's 1980 book ''The Name of the Rose ...
''.
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{{Alcachofa Soft
Toledo, Spain
Video game companies established in 1995
Video game companies of Spain
Video game development companies
Spanish companies established in 1995