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Tynesoft
Tynesoft Computer Software was a software developer and publisher in the 1980s and early 1990s. History The company was originally set up in 1983 to release educational software but soon moved into the video games market on which it concentrated for most of its time. It developed numerous games for a wide variety of 8-bit micros, particularly those less well catered for by other publishers such as the Commodore 16, BBC Micro and Atari 8-bit. They also had a budget label, Micro Value, that issued compilations, reissues and some original games. They had most success with their multi-load games such as ''Summer Olympiad'', ''Circus Games'' and ''Rodeo Games''. They also released licensed ports to smaller systems such as Software Projects' ''Jet Set Willy'' ( Atari 8-bit, Commodore 16/ Plus/4, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron), First Star Software's ''Boulder Dash'' (BBC, Electron) and ''Spy vs. Spy'' (C16/+4, BBC, Electron) and Mindscape's ''Indoor Sports'' (C16/+4, BBC, Electron). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flair Software
Casual Arts, formerly known as Flair Software, is a British video game developer and publisher of the 1990s that developed and published games for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, PlayStation (console), PlayStation, Sega Saturn and SNES. It was set up by Colin Courtney in 1990 after his previous company, Tynesoft, went bankrupt. It retained Tynesoft's MicroValue brand and published ''Elvira: The Arcade Game'' which had originally been scheduled for publication by Tynesoft. The company is mainly associated with popular and colourful Amiga games as ''Troll doll#Television, film and video games, Trolls'', ''Oscar (video game), Oscar'' and ''Whizz (video game), Whizz''. In 1993 platformer ''Oscar (video game), Oscar'' was bundled with Millennium's ''Diggers (video game), Diggers'' as launch bundle for the Amiga CD32 and it was considered one of the mascot games for the system. Flair Software's 1994 fighting game ''Dangerous Streets'' (that was a pack-in game for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |