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Big Five Software

American video game developer in the 1980s based in Van Nuys1

Big Five Software was an American video game developer and publisher in the first half of the 1980s founded by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu. The company developed games for the TRS-80 and Atari 8-bit computers. Most of its TRS-80 games were clones of arcade video games, such as Galaxy Invasion (Galaxian), Super Nova (Asteroids), Defense Command (Missile Command), and Meteor Mission II (Lunar Rescue).2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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Big Five Software was an American video game developer and publisher in the first half of the 1980s founded by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu. The company developed games for the TRS-80 and Atari 8-bit computers. Most of its TRS-80 games were clones of arcade video games, such as Galaxy Invasion (Galaxian), Super Nova (Asteroids), Defense Command (Missile Command), and Meteor Mission II (Lunar Rescue). Big Five also sold an Atari joystick interface called TRISSTICK which was popular with TRS-80 owners.2

Products and brands

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TRS-80

Attack Force (1980)

Cosmic Fighter (1980)

Galaxy Invasion (1980)

Meteor Mission II (1980)

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Galaxy Invasion Plus (1980)

Super Nova (1980)

Robot Attack (1981)

Stellar Escort (1981)

Defense Command (1982)

Weerd (1982)

Atari 8-bit

Miner 2049er (1982)

Bounty Bob Strikes Back! (1985)

Unreleased

Meteor Mission (1980)

Scraper Caper (Atari 8-bit, circa 1983). It was mentioned in some magazine ads for Miner 2049er.

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