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

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and

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. It was set up by Colin Courtney in 1990 after his previous company,

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, 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 ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Whizz''. In 1993 platformer ''

'' was bundled with Millennium's ''

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'' as launch bundle for the

and it was considered one of the mascot games for the system. Flair Software's 1994 fighting game ''

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'' (that was a pack-in game for the CD32 later in its lifespan) is generally considered one of the worst games of all time. The games ''Trolls'' and ''

'' were remade and re-released in 2010 as

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by Virtual Playground (part of the MicroValue group of companies) under the new titles ''Oscar in Toyland'' (since the

licence couldn't be used any more) and ''Oscar in Movieland''. In 2011 Virtual Playground also released two new original ''Oscar'' games (''Oscar in Toyland 2'' and ''Oscar's World Tour'') for DSiware. The company currently operates under the name Casual Arts and releases games for PC, Mac, Nintendo DS/3DS, iOS, Android and Kindle..

Selected Games

* ''Turn n' Burn (1990, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS)'' * '' Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1991, Commodore 64) (publisher)'' * '' Elvira: The Arcade Game (1991, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS)'' * ''Euro Soccer (1992, Amiga, DOS)'' * ''

(1992, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Commodore 64, DOS)'' * ''

(1993, Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS, SNES)'' * ''Surf Ninjas (1993, Amiga CD32)'' * ''

(1994, Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS)'' * ''Summer Olympix (1994, Amiga CD32)'' * '' Whizz (1994, Amiga, DOS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, SNES)'' * ''Rally Championships (1994, Amiga, DOS)'' * ''Soccer Superstars (1995, Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS)'' * ''

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(1996, SNES)'' * ''

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(1996, DOS)'' * ''MegaMorph'' (1997, DOS) * ''Double Agent'' (1998, Windows, Amiga) * ''Jungle Legend (1999, Windows)''

References

{{Authority control Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom