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Re: Cosmo Mission and Astar International Co.

Subject: Re: Cosmo Mission and Astar International Co.
From: dbackenkoehler@t-online.de
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:49:02 -0700 (PDT)
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These stickers seem to be attached to all Super Invader variants published by Creative Computing as well. I have it on a Super Invader cassette and disk. It might to be some kind of copy protection from the Japanese rightholder: Steve Ahl from CC once told me that they initially purchased their media (cassettes and diskettes) from a California representative of Cosmos/Astar. Astar was the company in Japan that had produced the original coin-operated arcade version of Space Invaders.  Cosmos Computer Store was a  shop in the big Akihabara electronics shopping district of Tokyo.
M. Hata translated the game from the arcade version to the Apple 6502 chip for Cosmos.
(Is there someone who knows more about him out there?)

Is it possible that the red typo is a Japanese letter?

Dirk

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