Realtime Games Software Ltd. was a British
computer game developer, founded in 1984 by three
Leeds University students: Ian Oliver, Andrew Onions, and Graeme Baird.
Their first game, ''
3D Tank Duel'', was a
wireframe graphics game, in the style of Atari, Inc.'s ''
Battlezone'' arcade game, for the
ZX Spectrum
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. This was followed up with ''Starstrike 3D'', a game based on Atari's ''
Star Wars
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'' arcade game. ''
Starfox'' was published in 1987, and ''
Carrier Command'' was published in 1988. The company was also involved in
porting ''
Elite'' to
IBM PC compatibles and ''
Starglider'' to the ZX Spectrum.
Realtime's early titles were self-published,
[ while later games were published by Rainbird.
Graeme Baird subsequently went to work for Psygnosis, while Ian Oliver founded Cross Products to produce game development systems for consoles, in a joint venture with Andy Craven of nearby ]Vektor Grafix
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.
References
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Video game companies established in 1984
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