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What year did the company close?

The article says both 1990 and 1993. Applegamer 19:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've been looking this up. It appears they filed for chapter 11 in 1989, but did not finally close until some time later. That time appears to be both 1991 and 1993, depending on source. I've put in the "most common" date for now while I continue to look this up. Maury 18:14, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's 1993, article updated to reflect this. Maury 18:15, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Epyx"?

What does "Epyx" actually mean? JIP | Talk 22:16, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's just a homophone for "Epics"—you know "epic" games. — Frecklefσσt | Talk 23:10, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Last attempt to preserve history by an uninitiate. Maybe it'll stick on this talk page.

I was there at the time and it wasn't "a lot of directions", it was committing the company to the hot new wave "VCR Games" that was a complete flop. I, RG Goudy, programmer of the communication software for "handy" was there. It was so secret and it had the industry so scared that the GameBoy was rushed into production by the Japanese to try and beat us to the punch. I recall the hardware guy (don't recall his name tho) saying "I don't care what anybody says, no video game needs sound!" My last day was August 1, 1989.

Don't know how to do the citation thing, so this'll have to do:

http://www.giantbomb.com/rg-goudy/72-49290/

http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/?id=15693

Searched the internet and I find it curious that there is NO mention of Epyx having anything to do with VCR Games. If I wasn't there, I'd doubt it ever happened.

someone should contact RJ Micals, he headed the Handy project and quit a month after myself.

Of course, He thought the Amiga was the wave of the future and ALL of Handy's development was done on these.

pcG

Trying real hard to remember the tildes ...

PcGnome (talk) 05:09, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

PcGnome (talk) 05:14, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not only games

I remember a program called "Print Magic" for DOS, and searching in google, looks like Epyx made this software too.