- Quicksilva
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 houseIndescomp S.A. , andSandy 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 ofAtari 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 byGrandslam 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 theVic-20 ,Dragon 32/64 ,BBC Micro andAcorn Electron home computers.External links
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