Cavalier Computer, later Cavalier Computer Corporation, is a defunct software company that produced games for the

Apple II The Apple II (stylized as ) is an 8-bit home computer and one of the world's first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products. It was designed primarily by Steve Wozniak; Jerry Manock developed the design of Apple II's foam-mold ...

series of computers. The company was founded in 1981 by high school classmates Jim Nitchals and Barry Printz and achieved an early success with ''Bug Attack'', a game similar to ''

Centipede Centipedes (from New Latin , "hundred", and Latin , " foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek , ''kheilos'', lip, and New Latin suffix , "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an ...

'' that ranked among the top 30 software titles of 1982. Jim Nitchals died at age 36 in 1998.

Software

* ''Asteroid Field'' by Jim Nitchals (1980) * ''

Bug Attack ''Bug Attack'' is a fixed shooter video game written by Jim Nitchals for the Apple II and published by Cavalier Computer in 1981. An version for Atari 8-bit computers was released in 1982. ''Bug Attack'' is based on Atari, Inc.'s ''Centipede'' ar ...

'' by Jim Nitchals (1981) * ''Microwave'' by Jay P. Zimmerman and Jim Nitchals (1982) * ''Raiders of the lost Ring'', sometimes called ''Ring Raiders'', by Jim Nitchals (1981). A clone of ''

Star Castle ''Star Castle'' is a vector graphics multidirectional shooter released in arcades by Cinematronics in 1980. The game involves obliterating a series of defenses orbiting a stationary turret in the center of the screen. The display is black and ...

''. * ''Star Thief'' by Jim Nitchals (1981) * ''Teleport'' by Mike Abbott and Jim Nitchals (1982)

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Game Designers Remembered: Jim Nitchals
Defunct video game companies of the United States Privately held companies based in California {{US-videogame-company-stub