Opera Soft was a Spanish

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developer of the Golden Era of Spanish Software of the 1980s. It released many games for the

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and similar computers in the mid-1980s, but its games were not as popular on the PC. Founded in 1986, the company obtained success with its title '' Livingstone, supongo'' (''Livingstone, I Presume'') in the same year. The game is based on the 19th-century explorer

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. Within Spain, one of their most popular games was '' La Abadía del Crimen'' (''The Abbey of Crime''), based on

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's novel ''

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''. Like many other Spanish software companies of the time, Opera Soft did not adapt to the generational change and went out of business in the early 1990s with the emergence of

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video games.

Opera Sports

Opera created a division to develop sports videogames called ''Opera Sports''.

Notable games

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'' (1986) *' (1986 -

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/ Carlos A. Díaz de Castro) *''

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'' (1987) *'' La abadía del crimen'' (1988 - Paco Menéndez /

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'' (1988 -

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) *'' Mutan Zone'' (1989) *''

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'' (1989) *'' Corsarios'' (1989) *'' Gonzzalezz'' (1989) *'' Guillermo Tell'' (1989) *''

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) *' (1989 - José Antonio Morales Ortega and José Ramón Fernández Maquieira / Carlos A. Díaz de Castro) *'' Mithos'' (1990) *''

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'' (1990) *''

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'' (1990 - Eduardo Bellver Castaño and José Vicente Pons Alonso / Queral y J. Alberto Ochoa Fernández) *'' Ángel Nieto Pole 500'' (1990) *', also known as ''Boxing Simulation'' (1990 - Juan Carlos García, Kostandin Igor Ruiz, J. Alberto Ochoa Fernández, Miguel Kruskritz) *''

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'' (1990) *'' Rescate en el golfo'' (1990) *'' Sirwood'' (1990) *'' La Pulga 2'' (1991) *''

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'' (1991) *'' Olympic Games '92'' (1992) *'' (1992)

Legacy

A video game called Speakerman was released in 2019 with art style and game world heavily inspired by Goody and Livingstone Supongo, citing those Opera Soft games as direct inspirations.Speakerman by ''The SektorZ''
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References

External links

* (Archived
Opera Soft profile at ''Home of The Underdogs''
* (Archived
History of Opera Soft
* (Archived
Interview with Opera Soft at msdox.com
* (Archived
The Golden Age of Spanish Software II: Opera Soft
Defunct video game companies of Spain Video game companies established in 1987 Video game companies disestablished in 1992 Video game development companies 1987 establishments in Spain {{Europe-videogame-company-stub