Richard Spitalny is an American

United States

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 film producer

Film producer

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 and the founder of First Star Software

First Star Software

First Star Software, Inc. is a computer game development, publishing and licensing company, founded by Richard Spitalny and Fernando Herrera in 1982. It is best known for its classic Boulder Dash franchise and Spy vs. Spy titles, originally written for 8-bit home computers like the Apple II, Atari...

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He co-produced Rhinestone

Rhinestone (film)

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, starring Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton

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 and Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone

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, for 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

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 as well as other films, prior to 1982.

As the president of First Star Software, he was responsible for the sale of part of the company to Warner Software (a Warner Communications

Warner Communications

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 Company) in 1983. Although Warner no longer maintains ownership equity

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, the companies continue to work together in the exploitation of the three Spy vs. Spy computer games

Spy vs. Spy (computer game)

Spy vs. Spy was a game first published by First Star Software in 1984 for the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64 and Apple II computers. It was an innovative two-player, split-screen game, based on MAD Magazine's long running cartoon strip, Spy vs...

 created by First Star based on Mad

Mad (magazine)

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‘s Spy vs. Spy characters. Spitalny was also responsible for the acquisition of Boulder Dash

Boulder Dash

Boulder Dash, originally released in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers, is a series of computer games released for the Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision home computers, and later ported to the NES, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, PC, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and many other platforms...

and continues to oversee all production, distribution, marketing and/or licensing of games based on this intellectual property throughout the world.