verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2007 learn how and when to remove this template message quicksilver software inc. type privately owned industry interactive entertainment founded may 1 1984 headquarters irvine california united states key people william fisher stephen roney founders website www.quicksilver.com quicksilver software inc. was founded in 1984 by three intellivision programmers from mattel electronics . of the three william fisher still works there stephen roney is now elsewhere and the third michael breen is currently a principal engineer at johnson controls . the company specializes in the creation of strategy simulation and educational products and on focused high technology r & d projects . early in its history quicksilver landed a productive deal with arcade game manufacturer data east usa inc. that ultimately resulted in the creation of 28 different titles for apple ii commodore 64 ibm pc apple macintosh and atari st home computers . these included adaptations of well known games such as karnov and the ikari warriors series . the company s work on another data east title heavy barrel earned it the attention of publisher interplay productions which contracted quicksilver to develop what would become one of interplay s first titles as an independent publisher castles for the ibm pc which ultimately sold more than 400 000 copies . this was followed by additional strategy titles such as castles ii conquest of the new world over 500 000 copies and star trek starfleet command over 300 000 copies and several sequels . quicksilver also established an active relationship with publisher activision . beginning with some research and development work on activision s digital video display technology ultimately used in the top selling title return to zork quicksilver rapidly expanded into developing a long series of four titles in the shanghai line of tile based solitaire games . quicksilver also ported other titles for activision such as the windows 3.1 and mac os versions of zork nemesis and the dvd rom versions of spycraft the great game and muppet treasure island . at the same time quicksilver also worked on a series of educational software titles such as the math at work line of math products and the highly acclaimed title heritage civilization and the jews a massive 8.5 gigabyte interactive dvd rom version of the popular wnet television series . quicksilver developed all of the underlying technology for heritage while the new york based asset development team created the content for the game . from 2001 through 2005 quicksilver developed a series of military training products for the u.s. army and the singapore armed forces . its products full spectrum command and full spectrum leader are designed to provide cognitive training for company commanders and platoon leaders . during this same time period the company created the strategy game master of orion iii a game now known for its lack of polish and steep learning curve . the company also developed two online games for the rich dad line of financial education games based on the board games cashflow 101 and cashflow 202 . in 2004 quicksilver diversified into mobile and handheld games . the company developed several games for mobile phones its best known product being amf xtreme bowling published by vir2l entertainment a zenimax media company . in 2005 the company once again worked on a star trek title star trek tactical assault for nintendo ds and sony psp published by bethesda softworks . in 2006 through 2008 quicksilver released several additional military training titles including a patriot missile battery deployment trainer and an award winning logistics trainer dmcti distribution management cognitive training initiative . as with quicksilver s other military titles these products were developed in conjunction with the army funded usc institute for creative technologies ict . in october 2008 quicksilver released type to learn 4 for publisher sunburst the latest in sunburst s popular keyboard skill development lineup . also in october 2008 quicksilver premiered an interactive poker game show called the real deal at the venetian hotel and casino in las vegas nv . in 2010 the company began working with restaurant company stacked ultimately collaborating with them to create the award winning ipad user interface used in the restaurants as well as a companion consumer app and an online ordering web site . since then quicksilver has added many new features to the restaurant and online components . quicksilver also developed a set of games for the naval postgraduate school in monterey ca . this navy run training academy needed classroom games that would amplify and extend their instructional materials in areas such as counter terrorism . working with its long term client the usc institute for creative technologies ict quicksilver worked on two different web based games designing both the client and server software and deploying in the amazon cloud . during this same time quicksilver developed its own intellectual property around the delivery of digital comic books and other image based media . the longbox system was released but ultimately did not attract sufficient content . however the technology lived on and in 2014 key components of the intellectual property were sold to a new organization that began adapting the core elements for a new yet to be announced series of products . product list edit quicksilver has created a large number of titles since its founding in 1984 . unless otherwise noted the company was responsible for full design and development of each title including artwork and audiovisual elements . more recent projects include publisher title and platforms release date s sales if known timeplay real deal poker programming october 2008 n a u.s. army dmcti logistics trainer october 2008 n a sunburst technologies type to learn 4 october 2008 n a bethesda softworks star trek tactical assault october 2006 n a encore hoyle casino 3d completion from alpha march 2005 n a u.s. army full spectrum leader windows march 2005 n a vir2l amf xtreme bowling java brew phones july 2004 not disclosed u.s. army full spectrum command 1.5 windows may 2004 n a idville id maker windows 2002 not disclosed rich dad s game llc rich dad s cashflow 202 windows mac os february 2004 not disclosed rich dad s game llc rich dad s cashflow 101 windows mac os march 2003 not disclosed atari master of orion 3 windows mac os february 2003 over 200 000 baudville award maker 2003 windows mac os 2003 not disclosed u.s. army full spectrum command 1.0 windows february 2003 n a intellivision productions intellivision rocks windows emulator 2002 not disclosed thirteen wnet ny heritage civilization and the jews engine only 2000 2005 unknown future pastimes cosmic encounter online design 2000 2002 unknown interplay productions star trek starfleet command windows july 1999 over 300 000 activision inc. shanghai second dynasty windows mac os december 1999 over 100 000 activision inc. shanghai dynasty windows mac os 1998 unknown activision inc. shanghai great moments windows mac os 1997 over 600 000 interplay productions conquest of the new world ms dos mac os 1996 over 500 000 interplay productions castles ii siege and conquest cd ms dos mac os 1994 over 100 000 interplay productions castles ms dos 1991 over 400 000 the following is a list of earlier projects . publisher title and platforms activision muppet treasure island windows mac os dvd rom port activision spycraft the great game windows mac os dvd rom port activision zork nemesis windows 3.1 and mac os ports activision hyperblade windows 3.1 completion atari track and field apple ii atari apb atari lynx baudville award maker plus ibm pc mac os baudville laser award maker ibm pc mac os data east usa inc. bad dudes ibm pc apple ii data east usa inc. batman apple ii data east usa inc. commando ibm pc apple ii data east usa inc. guerrilla war ibm pc apple ii data east usa inc. heavy barrel ibm pc apple ii data east usa inc. ikari warriors ii ibm pc apple ii commodore 64 data east usa inc. ikari warriors ibm pc apple ii commodore 64 data east usa inc. karnov ibm pc mac os atari st data east usa inc. kid niki radical ninja apple ii data east usa inc. lock on ibm pc mac os atari st data east usa inc. platoon ibm pc apple ii data east usa inc. tag team wrestling commodore 64 apple ii ibm pc davidson simon & schuster maurice ashley teaches chess windows davidson kid keys ms dos mac os interplay productions battle chess cdtv interplay productions battle chess fm towns and mac os combat animations interplay productions shadow of the comet pc voice over production snk prehistoric isle ibm pc snk ikari warriors iii ibm pc 1 references edit source quicksilver software inc. retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title quicksilver software 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