Image Works was a British

video game publisher A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer. They often finance the development, sometimes by paying a video game developer ...

that served as a publishing label for

Mirrorsoft Mirrorsoft was a British video game publisher founded by Jim Mackonochie as a division of Mirror Group Newspapers. The company was active between 1983 and 1991, and shut down completely in early 1992. History In the early 1980s, Jim Mack ...

between 1988 and 1992, when the parent company went bankrupt.

History

The first two games published under the Image Works label were '' Fernandez Must Die'' and '' Foxx Fights Back''.CRASH 60 - 1988 Lookback
/ref> Image Works notably became the European publisher for all the titles developed by

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, starting with their second game '' Speedball'', until The Bitmap Brothers founded their own publishing brand Renegade Software. Over the course of its existence, Image Works also acquired the publishing rights to film adaptations from the ''

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'' and ''

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'' franchises, as well as home computer ports of arcade and console games such as ''

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'', ''

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'' and the first two ''

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'' games by

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: these ports and adaptations were consistently released on all the Western 8-bit and 16-bit computer systems supported by the publisher. Until the demise of

in 1992, games were published on

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, Atari ST and

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as well as other platforms such as the

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and

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. Image Works briefly traded under the name 'Imagiworks' and used the slogan 'Believe in the power of imagination'; the label reverted to 'Image Works' and dropped the slogan after a poor write-up from most critics.

Games published

References

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