Bug-Byte
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Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates, and was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for the Sinclair, Commodore and other home computers, particularly for the Spectrum. Among the better known titles are Manic Miner and Twin Kingdom Valley.
The company was based in Liverpool, UK, and helped found a number of software houses in that region. In 1983, programmer Eugene Evans and two of the senior staff left to form Imagine Software. Later in the year Matthew Smith, a freelance developer who wrote Manic Miner, left to join Software Projects. In May 1985, after a difficult trading season and a shake-out in the industry, the company went into voluntary liquidation, and the rights to their games were purchased by Argus Press PLC.
[edit] Software products
- Aardvark (1986)
- Antics (1985)
- Aquarius
- Automan (1985)
- Bomber Bob
- BOP! (1986)
- Break Out
- Cavern Fighter
- City Defence
- Codename Mat 2
- Cricket
- Diagon (1985)
- Dictator
- Birds and the Bees
- Dragonquest
- Droid Dreams (1988)
- Dunjunz
- Elevator Action
- Galaga (1988)
- Galaxy Wars
- Dragonquest
- Hoodoo Voodoo (1986)
- Hunkidory
- I-Wizard (1988)
- Ice Hockey
- International Cricket
- Invaders
- Jack Attack
- Jeep Command (1986)
- Kat Trap (1987)
- Kung-Fu
- Little Green Man (1988)
- Manic Miner (1983)
- Mazogs
- Miami Dice (1986)
- Mr. Mephisto (1984)
- Monkey Nuts
- Old Father Time
- Orbix The Terrorball
- Pi-R Squared
- Plan B
- Plan B2
- Roboto
- Sky Hawk (1986)
- Spectres
- Spellseeker (1987)
- Split Personalities
- Squeekaliser
- Star Force Seven
- Star Soldier (1987)
- Star Trader (1984)
- Strange Loop
- STI (Search for Terrestrial Intelligence) (1988)
- Styx
- Templeton
- Tennis
- Terramex
- The Castle (1983)
- Time Trax (1986)
- The Damsel and the Beast
- The Dogboy (1985)
- The Pay-Off (1984)
- Turmoil (1986)
- Twin Kingdom Valley (1983)
- Uranians
- Zoot (1987)
