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Logo used from 1989 to 2000
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| Formerly | Boyd's System Design (1985-1986)[1] Berkeley System Design (1986-1989) |
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| Company type | Private |
| Founder | Wes Boyd Larry Boyd Joan Blades |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Defunct? | December 2000 |
| Fate | Folded into Flipside.com |
| Area | Worldwide |
| Headquarters | Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Products | After Dark (1989-2000) You Don't Know Jack (1995-2000) |
| Number of employees | 120 (1997) |
| Parent | Sierra On-Line (1997-2000) Flipside.com (2000) |
| Subsidiaries | Berkeley Access (1995-1996) |
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Berkeley Systems was a software company co-founded in 1985 by Wes Boyd, Larry Boyd, and Joan Blades. The company got its start in accessibility, specifically making products for the Macintosh designed for partially sighted or blind people, most notably inLARGE and outSPOKEN.
Berkeley's first consumer product was Stepping Out, a virtual desktop product released in 1987. However, the company is best known for their After Dark screensavers and were the original co-developer and publisher of You Don't Know Jack.
The company was later acquired by CUC International in 1997, and integrated as a division of Sierra On-Line.[2] Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, Berkeley Systems ended up becoming part of Flipside.com in 2000, before quietly folding at the end of that year.[3]
History
Software developed
As Berkeley System Design
- inLARGE (1986)
- Stepping Out (1987)
- Stepping Out II (1988)
As Berkeley Systems, Inc.
- After Dark 1.0 (1989)
- outSPOKEN (1989)[4]
- After Dark 2.0 (1990)
- More After Dark (1991)
- Star Trek: The Screen Saver (1992)
- The Disney Collection Screen Saver (1993)
- Launch Pad (1994)
- After Dark 3.0 (1994)
- Expresso Calendar & Address Book (1994)
- Triazzle Rainforest Edition (1995)
- Totally Twisted After Dark (1995)
- You Don't Know Jack (1995)
- After Dark 4.0 (1996)
- You Don't Know Jack Sports (1996)
- You Don't Know Jack Volume 2 (1996)
- You Don't Know Jack Movies (1997)
- You Don't Know Jack Volume 3 (1997)
- You Don't Know Jack Television (1997)
- HeadRush (1998)
- After Dark Games (1998)
- You Don't Know Jack Volume 4: The Ride (1998)
- You Don't Know Jack Offline (1999)
- You Don't Know Jack: Louder! Faster! Funnier! (2000)
- Backstage Pass: The Ultimate Rock 'n' Roll Trivia Game (November 16th, 2000)[5]
References
- ↑ National Institutes of Health, "New Grants and Awards", Pg. 3 (Summer 1985) https://books.google.com/books?id=YcK1nG7efQQC&pg=PA3
- ↑ Wired, Kaitlin Quistgaard, "CUC Buys Content Maker Berkeley Systems" (April 2nd, 1997) https://www.wired.com/1997/04/cuc-buys-content-maker-berkeley-systems/
- ↑ Berkeley Systems, "Lookin' for Berkeley Systems? It's now a part of flipside.com!" (Archived December 5th, 2000) http://web.archive.org/web/20001205214100/http://www.berkeleysystems.com/
- ↑ Raised Dot Computing, "Berkeley System Design is Now Shipping OutSPOKEN", Raised Dot Computing Newsletter Vol. 8 Number 81 (November/December 1989) http://www.duxburysystems.org/downloads/library/news/new81.htm
- ↑ Sierra On-Line, "BACKSTAGE PASS™ IS THE STAIRWAY TO MUSIC HEAVEN" (November 16th, 2000) https://web.archive.org/web/20010709024856/http://www.sierra.com/corp/mr/release/0,2760,504,00.html