Platform suggestion: Luxor ABC

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#1  Edited By fisk0  Moderator

This may be a bit too obscure for Giant Bomb, Luxor AB created a series of home computers, named ABC 80, ABC 800 and ABC 1600 (ABC being an abbreviation for Advanced BASIC Computer) between 1978 and 1985. As far as I know they were only available in Sweden, Finland and Bulgaria, but were quite popular there up until the Commodore 64 and IBM PC took over in the mid to late 80's, and continue to have some amount of cult status in Sweden. Given the small install base (and the fact that they were primarily indended as office and educational computers, the amount of games released was limited, probably only around 10 seeing actual retail release), I'd suggest it to be a "Luxor ABC series" shared platform, like how PC includes DOS, Windows and Linux currently. That is of course if it should be added at all, as the computers and the software never had an US release.

A bit more info and history about the machines: http://www.retrocomputing.net/parts/commodore/1541/docs/devil/Computers/Luxor/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor_ABC_80

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_800

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_1600