Vektor Grafix

Vektor Grafix
Type	Video game developer
Founded	1986
Headquarters	United Kingdom
Key people	Andy Craven
Industry	computer and video game industry
Products	Video Games

Vektor Grafix was a United Kingdom-based computer game development company led by Andy Craven, and taken over by Microprose in 1992. The company was based in the city of Leeds, and after the takeover became Microprose's Leeds development studio.

Vektor Grafix was founded by Andy Craven and Danny Galagher in 1986, and their first release was a port of the Star Wars arcade game for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 home computers, published by Domark. A DOS version followed (published via Broderbund in the USA), and this was quickly followed by a port of The Empire Strikes Back.

Vektor went on to become a leading developer of 3D simulation games, and was eventually purchased by Microprose in 1992.^[1]

[edit] Trivia

Vektor Grafix's first office was, by coincidence, just down the corridor from Realtime Games Software, who had previously released an unofficial clone of the Star Wars arcade machine^{[citation needed]}.
Tom Ashton, guitarist with The March Violets, worked at Vektor Grafix as an artist^[2].