Computer Magic

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Computer Magic, Ltd. was a Long Island, New York, United States-based software house incorporated on February 26, 1980, and dissolved on September 28, 1994. [1] It is not to be confused with the Atari 2600 third-party publisher Computer Magic Inc. (aka CommaVid) [2] and is probably not to be confused with the publisher of Volcano for the ZX Spectrum.

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2600

  • Robin Hood (US Publisher: Xonox)

7800

  • California Games (unreleased) (under subcontract with Man Development Corp.?) (Atari)
  • Impossible Mission (under subcontract with Man Development Corp.?) (US Publisher: Atari)
  • One-on-One Basketball (under subcontract with Man Development Corp.?) (US Publisher: Atari)
  • Summer Games (under subcontract with Man Development Corp.?) (US Publisher: Atari)
  • Winter Games (under subcontract with Man Development Corp.?) (US Publisher: Atari)

Apple II

  • Smart Eyes (US Publisher: Addison-Wesley) [3]
Reading improvement program

Atari 8-bit

  • Avoid (unreleased?) (Computer Magic)
  • Horseword Derby (unreleased?) (Computer Magic)
  • It-Is-Balloon (unreleased?) (Computer Magic)
  • Kayos (US Publisher: Computer Magic)
  • Mad-Netter (US Publisher: Computer Magic)
  • Pogoman (US Publisher: Computer Magic)
  • Tribomb (unreleased?) (Computer Magic)

ColecoVision

  • Pogoman (unreleased) (Computer Magic) [4]
  • Robin Hood (US Publisher: Xonox)

Mark Thompson worked on ColecoVision games at Computer Magic

Commodore 64?

  • Robin Hood (US Publisher: K-tel Software)
  • Sonar Experimenter's Kit (US Publisher: Computer Magic) [5]
"Hooks to your computer and allows you to do such things as wave your hand in the air and create music"


Computer Magic published and developed Robot*Link, a software package compatible with Apple II, IBM, Atari 8-bit, and Commodore 64 computers that allowed you to program Tomy's toy robots. [6] [7]

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