Quicksilva
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Quicksilva was one of the most successful British games software publishers during the early 1980s.
Amongst the company's big successes were Jeff Minter's Gridrunner (1983), Bugaboo (1983, aka La Pulga), a title licenced from Spanish software house Indescomp S.A., and Sandy White's Ant Attack (1983), a game which had, for the time, quite revolutionary 3-D graphics. The company was most successful during 1983-1984, during which time it released an early home computer version of Star Raiders entitled Time-Gate (1983) and the first official home computer conversion of Atari Games' Battlezone (1984). Also in 1984 they released Fantastic Voyage, which was an official licence from the film.
The company's release schedule slowed down after that point although it went on to produce popular games such as Glider Rider and the home computer versions of Elevator Action, both in 1986. In 1987 the company name was bought by Grandslam Entertainment. The Quicksilva name last appeared on the home computer version of Pac-Land (1989).
Quicksilva mainly released games for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, but also did conversions for the Vic-20, Dragon 32/64, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron home computers.
