Alcachofa Soft

Alcachofa Soft was a video game developer in Toledo, Spain, founded in 1995 and specializing in graphic adventure games.

History

Its first work was the game Dráscula: [The Vampire Strikes Back], a comedy adventure.
In 1997, it made Ping Pong. In 1998, it made Mortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico, a graphic adventure based on the Spanish comic characters Mort & Phil and distributed by Grupo Zeta. It was successful and led to similar games based on the characters.
In 2000, it published El Tesoro [de Isla Alcachofa], a pirate adventure game which was Alcachofa Soft's first entirely independent product, without a publisher or external distributor.
Other Mort & Phil-based games it made were Mortadelo y Filemón: Dos Vaqueros Chapuceros and Mortadelo y Filemón: Terror, Espanto y Pavor, Mortadelo y Filemón: Operación Moscú and Mortadelo y Filemón: El Escarabajo de Cleopatra, Mortadelo y Filemón: Balones y patadones and Mortadelo y Filemón: Mamelucos a la romana and Mortadelo y Filemón: Una Aventura de Cine.
In 2008, it made Murder in the Abbey, an homage to La Abadía del Crimen.