There were a butt-load of original ports and official sequels for the Amiga and most other platforms. There was also an arcade version that was brought home as "Rockford". Interestingly, First Star Software, which was founded in 1982 by Fernando Herrera who used his winnings from an Atari APX programming contest, is still producing software today, though it's mostly new versions of Boulder Dash. Boulder Dash is among those select few games that have pretty much made it onto every viable platform, like "Tetris" and "SimCity" and the like. Even the C-64 version of Boulder Dash made it to the Wii's Virtual Console.
They (First Star) DID allow the limited release of Atari 5200 conversions of some Atari 8-bit titles (like Bristles and Flip-Flop), which I was lucky enough to pick up when they were being sold. While not officially a classic company releasing new software for a classic platform, it's probably as close as we'll get and still pretty damned cool.
There were a butt-load of original ports and official sequels for the Amiga and most other platforms. There was also an arcade version that was brought home as "Rockford". Interestingly, First Star Software, which was founded in 1982 by Fernando Herrera who used his winnings from an Atari APX programming contest, is still producing software today, though it's mostly new versions of Boulder Dash. Boulder Dash is among those select few games that have pretty much made it onto every viable platform, like "Tetris" and "SimCity" and the like. Even the C-64 version of Boulder Dash made it to the Wii's Virtual Console.
They (First Star) DID allow the limited release of Atari 5200 conversions of some Atari 8-bit titles (like Bristles and Flip-Flop), which I was lucky enough to pick up when they were being sold. While not officially a classic company releasing new software for a classic platform, it's probably as close as we'll get and still pretty damned cool.
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