Re: Cosmo Mission and Astar International Co.

[Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, dbackenkoehler@t-online.de wrote:

> 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.

...I thought that was Taito.

> 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?

If I saw mb I could say...

> Dirk

-uso.