Founded in Campbell, California in 1982, Romox was a
software company that produced games for the Atari 2600, Atari 8-Bit, Commodore
Vic-20, Commodore 64, and Texas Instruments 99/4A. Not only did Romox sell their
own games for various systems, they also invented the Edge Connector
Programmable Cartridge (ECPC) in 1983. This device would allow the user to
purchase a reusable ECPC cartridge, and then bring the cartridge to a "Software
Center" where they could load a new game onto the cartridge from Romox's
catalog. The original cartridge was $24.95, and games could be "burned" to the
cartridge for around $10 each. The actual "Software Center" was a countertop
device with cartridge slots and a membrane keyboard to select the desired game.
These Software Centers were to be located in convenience stores and similar
locations. While the system did actually launch, by 1985 Romox was out of
business, another casualty of the videogame crash.
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