Topo Soft was a Spanish software house for

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home computers that emerged during the eighties. They were part of the

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. It dissolved in 1994 due to economic problems related with the late arrival of

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in Spain. Some of its workers founded

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in 1998. However, there are also criticisms, and in 2019 Eugenio Barahona and Cancho acknowledged that sometimes the planning to produce a certain number of video games affected the quality, leaving no time to "finish them off in conditions, or simply test them in order to balance their playability before releasing them for sale".

The eighties, 8-bits

Topo Soft published multiple games for the

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and PC such as ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch'', and '' Desperado'' (published in England as ''Gun.Smoke'').

16-bits

* Quickit, a graphical system to handle MS-DOSHistoria del software español – 1992/1994
at tonitoni.com (in Spanish)

References

External links

Topo Soft
at mobygames.com

at amstrad.es Defunct video game companies of Spain Video game companies disestablished in 1994 1994 disestablishments in Spain {{Europe-videogame-company-stub