California Pacific Computer Company is a defunct software design company that published games and related software for the Apple II

Apple II series

The Apple II series is a set of 8-bit home computers, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced in 1977 with the original Apple II...

 family of computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. California Pacific is best known as the publisher of the first installment of Richard Garriott

Richard Garriott

Richard Allen Garriott is a British-American video game developer and entrepreneur.He is also known as his alter egos Lord British in Ultima and General British in Tabula Rasa...

's popular Ultima game series, and for Super Invader

Super Invader (computer game)

Super Invader is a game for the Apple II family of computers written by M. Hata and published c. 1980 by California Pacific Computer Company. Super Invader emulates the Space Invaders arcade game and was voted the most popular program of 1978-1980 in a Softalk readers poll....

, a Space Invaders

Space Invaders

is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by the Midway division of Bally. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to...

clone voted the most popular software of 1978-80.

Software

• Akalabeth: World of Doom by Richard Garriott (1979)
• Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness by Richard Garriott (1980)
• Super Invader
  Super Invader (computer game)
  Super Invader is a game for the Apple II family of computers written by M. Hata and published c. 1980 by California Pacific Computer Company. Super Invader emulates the Space Invaders arcade game and was voted the most popular program of 1978-1980 in a Softalk readers poll....
  
  by M. Hata (1980)
• Space Album by Bill Budge (1980)
• Trilogy of Games by Bill Budge (1980) including Night Driver, Pinball and Space War
• 3-D Game Tool by Bill Budge (1981)
• Pacific Coast Freeway by Chuck Bueche (1982)
• "Lady Tut" by Greggy (1983)

External links

• California Pacific Computer entry at MobyGames
  MobyGames
  -Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...