Digital Image Design (DID) was a British

video game developer A video game developer is a broad term for a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a larg ...

founded by

Martin Kenwright Martin Kenwright is the founder of British-based virtual and augmented reality innovation company vTime Limited, digital media, entertainment and technology company Starship, and video game development studios Digital Image Design (DID) and Ev ...

and Phillip Allsopp in 1989. It was originally based in

Runcorn Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port in the Borough of Halton in Cheshire, England. Its population in 2011 was 61,789. The town is in the southeast of the Liverpool City Region, with Liverpool to the northwest across the River Mersey ...

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in England. The company specialized in aircraft simulator games, mostly published by

Ocean Software Ocean Software Ltd was a British software development company that became one of the biggest European video game developers and publishers of the 1980s and 1990s. The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and was based in Manchester. ...

. DID expanded following the release of '' TFX'', '' Inferno'', and ''

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'', and subsequently moved offices to

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. During this period, the technology from one of its products was spun off into a military laser designation simulator and they would also produce professional flight simulators for customers such as the

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and

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. After being taken over by Infogrames, key members of staff including Kenwright and Mick Hocking left to form Evolution Studios together with Ian Hetherington from

Psygnosis Psygnosis Limited (known as SCE Studio Liverpool or simply Studio Liverpool from 1999) was a British video game developer and publisher headquartered at Wavertree Technology Park in Liverpool. Founded in 1984 by Ian Hetherington, Jonathan Elli ...

. The company was subsequently sold to Rage Games Limited. After the demise of Rage Games Limited, a company named Juice Games appeared in the same Warrington office, with some key members of staff. Juice Games later became

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Games

* ''

F29 Retaliator ''F29 Retaliator'' is a combat flight simulator video game developed by Digital Image Design and published by Ocean Software in 1989 Amiga and Atari ST, 1991 for the PC, and for the FM Towns and NEC PC-9801 in 1992-1993. Its working title was ju ...

'' (1989) * ''

RoboCop 3 ''RoboCop 3'' is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Fred Dekker and written by Dekker and Frank Miller. It is the sequel to the 1990 film '' RoboCop 2'' and the third entry in the ''RoboCop'' franchise. It stars Robert ...

'' (1991) * ''

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'' (1992) * '' TFX'' (1993) * '' Inferno'' (1994) * ''

'' (1995) * '' EF2000: TACTCOM'' (1996) * '' F-22: Air Dominance Fighter'' (1997) * '' F-22 Total Air War'' (1998) * ''Lethal Encounter'' (unreleased) * '' Wargasm'' (1998) * ''

Eurofighter Typhoon The Eurofighter Typhoon is a European multinational twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole fighter. The Typhoon was designed originally as an air-superiority fighter and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonar ...

'' (2001) * '' Eurofighter Typhoon: Operation Icebreaker'' (2002)

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* Runcorn Video game companies established in 1989 Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom Companies based in Cheshire {{UK-videogame-company-stub