Vektor Grafix was a British computer game development company led by John Lewis and Andy Craven. Vektor Grafix was founded by Craven and Danny Gallagher in

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. Their first release were home ports of the ''

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'' arcade games. The

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-based company then went on to become a developer of mostly 3D

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s and was eventually bought by

MicroProse MicroProse is an American video game publisher and video game developer, developer founded by Bill Stealey, Sid Meier, and Andy Hollis in 1982. It developed and published numerous games, including starting the ''Civilization (series), Civilizatio ...

in July 1992, becoming their development studio.

Games

* ''

'' (ports, 1987) * '' Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back'' (ports, 1988) * ''

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'' (1988) * '' Fighter Bomber / Strike Aces'' (1988) * ''

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'' (1991) * '' Shuttle: the Space Flight Simulator'' (1992) * ''

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'' (1992) * ''

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'' (1993)

References

External links

Interview with Andy Craven
from ''

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