First Star has been developing, publishing and licensing entertainment software since 1982. In the past 25 years we have created and marketed numerous best selling and award winning computer games including BOULDER DASH® and the SPY vs. SPY® series of programs. Millions of units of the Boulder Dash and Spy vs. Spy series have been sold throughout the world. I-play and First Star are co-publishing Boulder Dash®-M.E.™ 2 for cell phones worldwide with over 700,000 units in the Boulder Dash®-M.E.™ series having been sold for mobile devices. The Boulder Dash franchise continues to thrive as BOULDER DASH®-ROCKS!™ for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP lead the way in a three-year plan that will see the brand expanded across numerous platforms.

Within 18 months of First Star’s inception, Warner Software, Inc., a Warner Communications company, acquired a fifty percent ownership in First Star. (Warner Software no longer retains an equity position.) In the company’s formative years management focused heavily on the development and publishing of its own IP as well as licensing rights to properties such as SUPERMAN®, SPY vs. SPY and ROMPER ROOM® while licensing publication rights for First Star's titles to third parties, particularly in Europe and Japan.

Currently, First Star develops and publishes games for the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP as well as for other mobile devices; PDAs and Windows PCs (for play online or off-line on optical media) while licensing console and other platform rights to third parties throughout the world. As evidenced by recent and continuing releases of limited, collectors’ editions of Boulder Dash® (Volumes 1 and 2), BRISTLES™, Flip and Flop™ and other First Star cartridges for the Atari 5200, and FIRST STAR SOFTWARE’S GREATEST HITS™, a Windows compendium of 14 of our titles from the 1980s, there continues to be strong interest in First Star’s early releases as well.

Our games have been licensed for many home computer systems popular in North America, Europe and Japan. In addition, First Star's games have been licensed for numerous video game consoles, hand-held platforms, and into the coin-operated arcades. License agreements for First Star's products or its intellectual properties have been successfully negotiated with numerous companies including: Nintendo, Sega, Electronic Arts, Radio Shack, Parker Brothers, JVC, Interplay Productions, Virgin-Mastertronics, Kotobuki and others.