Topo Soft
Topo Soft was a Spanish software house for 8-bit home computers that emerged during the eighties. They were part of the golden era of Spanish software. It dissolved in 1994 due to economic problems related with the late arrival of 16-bit computers in Spain.
Topo Soft
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- Name
- Topo Soft
- Founder
- Paco Pastor · Javier Cano
- Headquarters
- Spain
- Activity
- video game industry
- Products
- Gun.Smoke · Mad Mix Game · Emilio Butragueño Fútbol
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Topo Soft was a Spanish software house for 8-bit home computers that emerged during the eighties. They were part of the golden era of Spanish software. It dissolved in 1994 due to economic problems related with the late arrival of 16-bit computers in Spain.
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Overview
Some of its workers founded Pyro Studios in 1998. However, there are also criticisms, and in 2019 Eugenio Barahona and Cancho acknowledged that sometimes the planning to produce a certain number of video games affected the quality, leaving no time to "finish them off in conditions, or simply test them in order to balance their playability before releasing them for sale".
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Topo Soft • Type — Defunct • Founded — 1986 • Hq Location — Spain • Industry — Video games
The eighties, 8-bits
The eighties, 8-bits
Topo Soft published multiple games for the MSX and PC such as Survivor, Stardust, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and Desperado (published in England as Gun.Smoke).
16-bits
16-bits
• Quickit, a graphical system to handle MS-DOS
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- Spain
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- “Topo Soft”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3327169: Topo Soft
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- 1.8 quilates, una historia de la edad de oro del software español, Jaume Esteve Gutiérrez. Volumen 2. Capítulo 24. Editorial Polifemo7
- 2.LAs tres luces de Glaurung, walkthrough para spectrum.
- 3.La última tentación de Topo: Temptations.
- 4.Gameplay de survivor en Spectrum.
- 5.GENESIS: GUÍA ESENCIAL DE LOS VIDEOJUEGOS ESPAÑOLES DE OCHO BITS. 9788494288142.
- 6.Entrevista a Paco Pastor sobre su experiencia en el mundo de los videojuegos.
- 7.Entrevista con Gabriel Nieto.
- 8.Primera época de la revista Micromania.
- 9.Viaje al centro de la tierra para Commodore Amiga.
- 10.Perico Delgado para Spectrum comentado.
- 11.Artículo en amstrad.es con referencia al origen del nombre
- 12.Revista Retro Gamer edición en español, número 27, página 69
- 13.Repaso por los juegos de la compañia Animagic.
- 14.Revista Retro Gamer edición en español, número 27, página 76
- 15.Estudios de la edad de oro del software español: TOPO SOFT.
- 16.Comparación entre las versiones de Secret of Monkey Island.
- 17.La evolución del Spectrum brevemente.
- 18.Entrevista a Rafa Gómez.
- 19.Luigi y Spaghetti.
- 20.Conferencia de Cesar Astudillo: Gominolas.
- 21.Entrevista a Alfonso Fernández Borro.
- 22.Las portadas más celebres de Alfonso Azpiri.
- 23.Entrevista a Julio Martín.
- 24.Entrevista a Gabriel Nieto acerca de la edad de oro del software español.
- 25.Entrevista a Alberto López Navarro.
- 26.Entrevista a Ricardo Cancho.
- 27.Podcast: entrevista a Roberto Potenciano.
- 28.Entrevista a Gabriel Ortas.
- 29.Podcast: Entrevista a Javier Arévalo.
- 30.Homenaje a Javier Cano en Madrid.
- 31.Entrevista a Jose Manuel Muñoz Pérez.
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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