VSS

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VSS ("Video Software Specialists") was a Dallas, Texas-based company started by four former Apollo employees including Ed Salvo, Terry Grantham, and Mike Smith. The company developed games for CBS Electronics, Xonox, Sunrise Software, and Wizard Video Games. [1]

Research Methods: Actual mentions, online resources (see Links)

2600

  • Chuck Norris Superkicks (US Publisher: Xonox)
  • Glacier Patrol (US Publisher: Telegames)
  • Halloween (US Publisher: Wizard Video Games)
Subcontracted to fellow ex-Apollo programmers Tim Martin and Robert Barber, who used the contract to fund the founding of MicroGraphicImage. [2]
  • Mountain King (US Publisher: CBS Electronics)
  • Quest for Quintana Roo (US Publisher: Sunrise Software)
  • Snowplow (unreleased) (Sunrise Software) [3]
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (US Publisher: Wizard Video Games)

ColecoVision

  • Campaign '84 (US Publisher: Sunrise Software)
  • Chuck Norris Superkicks (US Publisher: Xonox)
  • Gust Buster (US Publisher: Sunrise Software)
  • Mountain King (US Publisher: Sunrise Software)
  • Rolloverture (US Publisher: Sunrise Software)
  • Quest for Quintana Roo (US Publisher: Sunrise Software)

Unknown

  • Educational game with a penguin on ice (Sunrise Software)

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