Ken Kalish
Encyclopedia
Kenneth Kalish wrote many games for the TRS-80 Color Computer
and Dragon 32/64
home computer
s in the early 1980s, including:-
In the United Kingdom
, most of Kalish's games were published by a company called Microdeal
.
TRS-80 Color Computer
The Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer was a home computer launched in 1980. It was one of the earliest of the first generation of computers marketed for home use in English-speaking markets...
and Dragon 32/64
Dragon 32/64
The Dragon 32 and Dragon 64 are home computers that were built in the 1980s. The Dragons are very similar to the TRS-80 Color Computer , and were produced for the European market by Dragon Data, Ltd., in Port Talbot, Wales, and for the US market by Tano of New Orleans, Louisiana...
home computer
Home computer
Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming increasingly common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user...
s in the early 1980s, including:-
- Danger Ranger
- Dungeon Raid
- El Diablero
- The KingThe King (computer game)The King is a computer game for the Dragon 32 home computer, written by Tom Mix software and published in the United Kingdom by Microdeal in 1983...
(originally released as "Donkey King") - Phantom SlayerPhantom SlayerPhantom Slayer is a computer game released by Med Systems in 1982 for the TRS-80 Color Computer and Dragon 32/64. Written by Ken Kalish, Phantom Slayer is considered by some to be a very early forerunner of the modern First-person shooter genre....
(proto-FPSFirst-person shooterFirst-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...
) - Devil Assault
In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, most of Kalish's games were published by a company called Microdeal
Microdeal
Microdeal was a British software company which operated during the 1980s and early 1990s from its base at Truro Road in the town of St Austell, Cornwall...
.
External links
- An Interview with Ken Kalish (by L. Curtis Boyle) - Includes a list of the games he wrote.