Xonox [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Xonox
Xonox, a division of K-tel Software Inc., was an American third-party manufacturer of cartridges for the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Commodore 64 and Commodore VIC-20 in the early 1980s. Xonox was one of many small video game companies to fold during the Video Game Crash of 1983.
History.
Xonox, based in Minnesota, started developing Atari cartridges during the height of the 2600's popularity. Xonox capitalized on the novelty and perceived value of "double-ender" cartridges. These could be
Artillery Duel
Artillery Duel is a artillery game originally written for the Bally Astrocade by Perkins Engineering and published by Bally in 1982. Xonox published ports for the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, and VIC-20. "Artillery Duel" was featured in several double-ended cartridges—with one game on each end—as well as in a single cartridge.
Gameplay.
The game consists of dueling cannons on either side of a hill or mountain of varying height and shape. Each player has control of the incline