Starpath

Starpath

Starpath was a U.S. company known for creating the "Starpath Supercharger" in 1982. The company was founded in 1981 under the name Arcadia Corporation, but it changed its name to Starpath shortly after for trademark reasons (Emerson Radio Corporation had released a video game console named the Emerson Arcadia 2001).

The Starpath Supercharger was an add-on for the Atari 2600 video game console that expanded the machine capabilities by adding additional RAM, allowing for higher resolution graphics and larger games, and by providing a connector to which a regular cassette player could be connected, thus permitting larger games, stored on tape, to be loaded. The Supercharger was connected to the Atari's cartridge slot.

Starpath merged with Epyx in 1983.

Starpath games:

*"Communist Mutants from Space"
*"Dragonstomper"
*"Escape From The Mindmaster"
*"Fireball"
*"Frogger, The Official"
*"Jungle Raid"
*"Killer Satellites"
*"Party Mix"
*"Phaser Patrol"
*"Rabbit Transit"
*"Suicide Mission"
*"Sword of Saros"

Rights to Starpath games are currently owned by Bridgestone Multimedia, a religious multimedia company.


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