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General Computer Corp.

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The General Computer Corporation was an early video game company started by Doug Macrae and Kevin Curran. The company started out with the game Super Missile Attack, which was sold as an enhancement board to Missile Command. Atari sued them for this, but the suit was soon dropped after Macrae and Curran agreed to develop games for Atari and stop making enhancement boards without permission. Their next project was Ms. Pac Man, which they developed as an enhancement kit for Pac-Man. They took the game to Midway who sold it as a sequel to Pac-Man. They made other arcade games for Atari, such as Food Fight, and they also produced many Atari 2600 cartridges, such as the 2600 versions of Ms. Pac-Man and Centipede. They also produced over half of the Atari 5200 cartridges. They did the chip design for the Atari 7800 and the first round of cartridges for that base unit. Presently the company makes Mac-oriented print servers.

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Kent, Steven L. The Ultimate History of Video Games. ISBN 0-7615-3643-4

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