Xonox
Sign in to saveXonox, a division of K-tel Software, was an American third-party manufacturer of cartridges for the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, and VIC-20 in the early 1980s. Xonox was one of many small video game companies to fold during the Video Game Crash of 1983.
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Vinony's link graph records 79 inbound references to Xonox, and connects out to Minnesota, Sega and Activision.
Vinony files it under Atari 2600, Companies based in Minnesota and Defunct video game companies of the United States.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Minnesota
- Industry
- video game industry
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1984-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Games released
- Atari 2600
- Standard cartridges
- Double-enders
- ColecoVision
- Standard cartridges
- Double-enders
- Commodore Vic-20
- References
Xonox, a division of K-tel Software, was an American third-party manufacturer of cartridges for the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, and VIC-20 in the early 1980s. Xonox was one of many small video game companies to fold during the Video Game Crash of 1983.
== History == Xonox, based in Minnesota, started developing Atari cartridges during the height of the 2600's popularity. Xonox capitalized on the novelty and perceived value of "double-ender" cartridges. These could be inserted into the console on one of the two ends, each end offering a different game. Different double-ender configurations could package the same game with different counterparts. Xonox was not the first company to try this; Playaround did it earlier with their adult-themed titles. Xonox eventually abandoned this idea and began releasing single versions of some of the titles previously offered as double-enders as well as a few new titles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xonox” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.