10 Facts About Broderbund

Broderbund Software, Inc was an American maker of video games, educational software, and productivity tools.

Broderbund is best known for the 8-bit video game hits Choplifter, Lode Runner, Karateka, and Prince of Persia, as well as The Print Shop—originally for printing signs and banners on dot matrix printers—and the Myst and Carmen Sandiego games.

Broderbund was founded in Eugene, Oregon, and moved to San Rafael, California, then later to Novato, California.

Games released by the revived Broderbund are distributed by Encore, Inc Brøderbund is the brand name for Riverdeep's graphic design, productivity, and edutainment titles such as The Print Shop, Carmen Sandiego, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, the Living Books series, and Reader Rabbit titles, in addition to publishing software for other companies, notably Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm.

Broderbund then bought Brøderbund in 1998 for about US$420 million in stock and, in a move to rationalize costs, it terminated five hundred employees at Brøderbund the same year .

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Doug Carlston explained that in a bid to roll up Broderbund, SoftKey utilised one of their previous acquisitions to weaken the company's stronghold over the industry.

In 1998, Broderbund inked a deal with Nickelodeon to develop CD-ROM games based on its animated cartoons, such as Rugrats.

Some more popular Broderbund titles were licensed to Western European and Japanese developers and ported to systems in those regions.

Broderbund served as distributing agent of Irem's North American NES release of Sqoon, because Irem didn't yet have its own American operation.

In 1990, Broderbund sold its New Ventures Division, including manufacturing equipment, inventory, and assets, to then-fledgling company THQ.