Radarsoft is a Dutch

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company that published video games in the 1980s. It released its first game (''3D Tic Tac Toe'') in 1984 for the

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. Until 1987 Radarsoft released multiple titles for the

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, Philips

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, and

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. Their main focus was the Dutch market, so most games are only available in Dutch. In 1986 Radarsoft went to the American video game market, but a packaging error at a Dutch warehouse cost the studio more money than they were able to recoup. The software company was created after John Vanderaart, Cees Kramer and Edwin Neuteboom, who had already made several games together, met law student Leonardo Jacobs. Later, the four students from

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worked with the cartoonist Wijo Koek. They got in touch with

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through Jacobs, and were commissioned to make a topography program. This program was included with the purchase of a Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum from V&D or Dixons. While initially only released in the Netherlands, this program was later translated and published in Finland as well. Some of Radarsoft's most successful games include the shooter ''Eindeloos'' (aka ''Endless'' or ''Infinitis'', 1985, also released in France and England) and the platform game ''Hopeloos'' (''Hopeless'', 1986). The games ''Topografie Nederland'' and ''Tempo Typen'' were used in the television game show '' It's All in the Game''. They also released a Commodore 64 platform game featuring ''

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'' (1984) and ''Co & Co'' (1985). The last game Radarsoft has been credited for is ''Zenith'' (1997), a pinball game for the

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. Radarsoft now focuses on educational multimedia software and multimedia projects on CD-ROM, DVD and internet.

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