Products
Brøderbund scored an early hit sustaining a punt Galactic Empire, written by Doug Carlston for the TRS-80. the company went in to be a powerhouse in the training & amusement computer software markets by having titles prefer Fantavision, Choplifter, Lode Runner, Karateka, Wings of Fury, Prince of Persia, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, and Myst, which stayed in the top 10 listings of PC games for years. Brøderbund too distributed a Print Shop series of desktop greeting card making programs. Broderbund was when the Nintendo licensee, publishing a few games games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, but none of their NES games including their long instance franchises Lode Runner, Spelunker and Raid on Bungling Bay, were developed by Broderbund themselves for this system.

Corporate history
Brøderbund was founded by brothers Doug and Gary Carlston in 1980. Their sister, Cathy, joined a year later. Prior to founding a company, Doug was a lawyer and Gary had held the total of jobs, including teaching Swedish at an American college.

Brøderbund became a public company in 1991 (their NASDAQ symbol, no hanker operative, was BROD). Their index price & market capitalisation climbed steadily to the utmost of about USD$80/share in late 1995, and then fell steadily in the face of continued losses for the total of years.

Brøderbund was purchased by The Learning Company in 1998 for about USD$420 million in commodity. Around 1999 the combined company was bought by Mattel for the astounding sum of $3.6 billion. Mattel reeled from either a fiscal impact of this dealing, & Jill Barad, the CEO, ended higher existence forced call at the climate of trader outrage. Mattel so actually gave away A Learning Company inside September 2000 to Gores Technology Group, a personal acquisitions business firm, for a part of whatever Gores may obtain by selling the company. Inside 2001, Gores sold The Learning Company's amusement holdings to Ubisoft, and virtually all of a more holdings, including the Brøderbund title, to Riverdeep.

Brøderbund is okay, a trade name for Riverdeep's graphic project, productivity, & edutainment titles, such as a Print Shop, Carmen Sandiego, Mavis Beacon, and Reader Rabbit titles, and besides publishes software program for more corporations, notably Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm.

Riverdeep refers to the section just when "Broderbund", forswearing a 'ø' character.

Etymology
A word "brøderbund" is non an actual word in any language, however occurs as somewhat free translation of "band of brothers" into the mixture of Swedish, Danish and German. A Danish ø was utilized only because it looks rather a software engineer's Ø (zero). A Brøderbund title, so, can be a number one widely known case of leetspeak.