Atlantis Software was a

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that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s. The company was set up by Michael Cole and Rodger Coghill in January 1984 with the first four games released in May of that year. The Atlantis Gold label was launched the following year at £2.99, but the Gold tag was soon dropped, with games at both prices being released under the Atlantis logo but with the suggested price on the cover. The company's primary focus remained on the low-cost cassette-based games for 8-bit machines for £1.99 and £2.99 (commonly known as "budget" games) that formed a significant part of the UK 8-bit software market during the 1980s. However, they later published games for the 16-bit disk-based Atari ST and

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formats. Formats covered included the ZX Spectrum on which they published several games reviewed by the UK gaming press.

Selected titles

*''Master Mariner'', 1984 (

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'', 1984 ( Commodore 64) *''

Cops 'n' Robbers ''Cops 'n' Robbers'' is a video game published by Atlantis Software in 1985 for the VIC-20 and in virtually identical form on the Commodore 64. It was ported to the Commodore 16 and Commodore Plus/4 (1986), Acorn Electron and BBC Micro (1987), ...

'', 1985 (

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, C64,

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) *''Death Race'', 1985 (VIC-20, C64, C16, Atari 8-bit) *''League Challenge'', 1986 (Spectrum, C64, C16, Electron, BBC, Atari 8-bit,

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, Atari ST) *''

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'', 1986 (Spectrum, C64, C16, Electron, BBC, Atari 8-bit, CPC,

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) *''Panik!'', 1986 (C16, Electron, BBC, Atari 8-bit) *''Gunfighter'', 1988 (Spectrum, C64, Electron, BBC, Atari 8-bit, CPC) *''Crack-Up!'', 1989 (Spectrum, C64, Electron, BBC, Atari 8-bit, CPC) *''

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'', 1989 (Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64) *''Cavemania'', 1990 (Spectrum, C64, CPC, Amiga, ST) *''Hobgoblin'', 1990 (Spectrum, C64, Electron, BBC, CPC) *''Apache Flight'', 1992 (Amiga, ST) Dates shown are for the first version. In many cases, ports to other machines were released over a number of years (e.g. ''League Challenge'' wasn't ported to Amiga until 1991).

References

External links

*{{official, http://www.atlantiscomputing.com/
Atlantis Software Game Cover Gallery on Retromuseums

Atlantis Softology on Retromuseums
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom