Alpha Products
Alpha Products produced many hardware products for the TRS-80, including the Green Screen, the Interfacer-80, the Analog-80, the Newclock-80, the A-BUS, and the VS-100 voice synthesizer. They also created the STICK-80, a joystick supported by almost all TRS-80 games.
Although primarily a hardware company, Alpha Products was also a prominent reseller of games from other companies, including Big Five Software, Adventure International, Soft Sector Marketing, and the Cornsoft Group. At the height of the TRS-80 game market, they bought monthly multi-page advertisements in 80 Microcomputing.
Alpha Products remained in business long after the end of the TRS-80 market. They sold products (including the A-BUS) for many systems, and even had a webpage. Alpha Products was acquired in 1995 and they seem to have been shut down not long after that.
If you are curious, the games in the above advertisement are grouped into three categories:
- A: $15.95 for tape, $19.95 for disk
- B: $19.95 for tape, $24.95 for disk
- C: $24.95 for tape, $24.95 for disk
Most of the games are in category A, one game (Penetrator) is in category C, and the rest are in category B. The discount was 10% if you bought two games, 15% if you bought three games, and 20% if you bought four games. The shipping and handling charge was $2.00 per order.
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