Jim Connelley
aka:
J. W. Connelley,
James Connelley
Moby ID: 4010
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Jim Connelley is one of the founding members of Automated Simulations, the other is Jon Freeman. Although the company isn't well known today they were one of the earliest game companies for home computers and shipped many of the early strategy games.
Jim and John started with Starfleet Orion in 1978 and then followed that up with the single-player Invasion Orion the next year. Then they created Temple of Apshai, also in 1979, which would go on to win many awards and is considered by many to be one of the greatest games of its era.
Over the next few years the company grew and eventually changed their name to Epyx (John had moved on by this point). Epyx had a whole management team and wanted to take the company into the action game area while Jim was still interested in strategy games. His last work at Epyx was Dragonriders of Pern, and after that he left to do freelance design.
Credited on 16 games
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| Space Invaders (1999, Windows) | Special Thanks To |
| Fox Sports College Hoops '99 (1998, Nintendo 64) | Management |
| Alexi Lalas International Soccer (1998, Windows) | Management |
| Dragonriders of Pern (1983, Atari 8-bit) | Designed by |
| Dunjonquest: Temple of Apshai (1982, DOS) | IBM Program |
| Ricochet (1982, VIC-20) | Game Design |
| StarQuest: Star Warrior (1981, Apple II) | Game Design |
| Dunjonquest: Sorcerer of Siva (1981, TRS-80) | Playtesting |
| Tuesday Morning Quarterback (1981, TRS-80) | Playtesting |
| Dunjonquest: The Datestones of Ryn (1981, Atari 8-bit) | Programs |
| Crush, Crumble and Chomp! (1981, Apple II) | Game Design |
| StarQuest: Rescue at Rigel (1980, Apple II) | Programs |
| Dunjonquest: Hellfire Warrior (1980, Apple II) | Programs |
| Invasion Orion (1979, TRS-80) | Game Design |
| Dunjonquest: Morloc's Tower (1979, TRS-80) | Programs |
| Starfleet Orion (1978, Commodore PET/CBM) | Designed by |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 10 games with Jon Freeman
- 9 games with Joyce Lane
- 8 games with Jeffrey A. Johnson
- 8 games with Tony Sabado
- 6 games with Michael Farren
- 5 games with George Barr
- 4 games with Toni Thompson
- 4 games with Bob Coolie
- 3 games with Lara Norman-Stowers
- 3 games with Bernie DeKoven
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Companies
- 13 games with Epyx, Inc.
- 3 games with Underground Development
- 2 games with Computer Cablevision, Inc.
- 1 game with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 1 game with Take 2 Interactive...
- 1 game with Take-Two Interactive...
- 1 game with Realsoft
- 1 game with BMG Interactive Entertainment
- 1 game with Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
- 1 game with Taito Corporation
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