The game was one of the first games for the Atari Lynx, released in 1989 and was programmed by Epyx, headed by lead programmer, Brian Bowhay, (who also developed the Lynx).
The company also branched out into "Computer Activity Toys", licenses of Hot Wheels, G.I. Joe, and Barbie.
Gates of Zendocon is a 1989 shoot-em-up action video game by Epyx written by Peter Engelbrite for the 1989 color portable handheld console Atari Lynx.
Invasion Orion is a 1979 science fiction strategy game written and published by Automated Simulations (who would become Epyx in 1983).
Star Warrior is a 1980 science fiction role-playing video game written and published by Automated Simulations (later known as Epyx) for the Apple II, TRS-80, and Atari home computers.
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862 F.2d 204, 9 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1322 (9th Cir. 1988) is a court case in which Data East, a video game manufacturer, contended that Epyx, a competing video game manufacturer, licensed and distributed a video game, International Karate, that infringed on the copyright of a video game developed by Data East, Karate Champ.
Among the earliest examples are Jaron Lanier's Alien Garden (Epyx, 1982), I, Robot (Atari 1983), which featured a special "ungame mode" called "Doodle City", and Jeff Minter's Psychedelia (Llamasoft, 1984), which is an interactive light synthesizer.
Oil Barons is both a strategy and simulation-type, turn-based game, published by Epyx in 1983.
Puzzle Panic, also known as Ken Uston's Puzzle Panic, was a computer game created by blackjack strategist Ken Uston, Bob Polin and Ron Karr and published by Epyx in 1984 for the Atari 400/800 and Commodore 64.
The monsters are based on popular movie monsters such as The Blob, Mothra, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and Epyx was able to secure licensing for Godzilla.