The company was founded by Alvin Earl Remmers (1942-2022), who had previously been in the
tie-dye shirt business and used early
microcomputers to track SKUs. While traveling to computer stores in California, he saw a copy of
Super Invader (1979) for the Apple II. He discovered the game had not been widely distributed so he created California Pacific Computer to act as a collector and publisher for Apple II programs. Over 20,000 units of
Super Invader sold; it was named the highest selling Apple II program by 1980. Remmers soon devised the concept of promoting the names of the software authors with his products. After meeting Bill Budge while seeking copy protection for the floppy disk version of
Super Invader, California Pacific published three of his games in a collection titled
Bill Budge’s Trilogy of Games (1980) and later four in ''
Bill Budge's Space Album'' (1980). ==Software published==