Software Projects was a computer game development company which was started by ''

Manic Miner ''Manic Miner'' is a platform video game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Bug-Byte in 1983 (later re-released by Software Projects). It is the first game in the Miner Willy series and among the early ti ...

'' developer Matthew Smith, Alan Maton and Colin Roach. After leaving

Bug-Byte Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a video game company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8-bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair, Commodore a ...

as a freelance developer, Smith was able to take the rights to his recently developed ''Manic Miner'' game with him, due to an oversight in his freelance contract. Software Projects was then able to market and publish the

ZX Spectrum The ZX Spectrum () is an 8-bit home computer that was developed by Sinclair Research. It was released in the United Kingdom on 23 April 1982, and became Britain's best-selling microcomputer. Referred to during development as the ''ZX81 Colou ...

hit game separately from

. Their logo was a Penrose triangle.

Released games

* ''Anaconda'' * ''Astronut'' * '' BC's Quest for Tires'' * ''Binky'' * '' Crazy Balloon'' * ''Crypt Capers'' * ''Dinky Doo'' * ''Dodo Lair'' * ''

Dragon's Lair ''Dragon's Lair'' is a video game franchise created by Rick Dyer and Don Bluth. The series is famous for its Western animation-style graphics and complex decades-long history of being ported to many platforms and being remade into television a ...

'' * '' Dragon's Lair Part II - Escape from Singe's Castle'' * ''Ewgeebez'' * ''Fatty Henry'' * ''Galactic Gardener'' * ''Harvey Smith Showjumper'' * ''Hunchback at the Olympics'' * ''Hysteria'' * '' Jet Set Willy'' * '' Jet Set Willy II'' * ''Karls Kavern'' * ''Learning with Leeper'' * ''Ledgeman'' * ''Legion'' * '' Loderunner'' * ''McKensie'' * ''

'' * ''Nutcraka'' * ''Ometron'' * ''Orion'' * ''Project Graphics Language'' * ''Push Off'' * ''Run and Plunder'' * ''Space Swarm'' * ''Space Joust'' * '' Star Paws'' * '' The Perils of Willy'' * ''Thrusta'' * ''Tribble Trubble'' In 1984 and 1985 they released a number of budget titles at £2.99 on the ''Software Supersavers'' label.

References

Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom Video game companies established in 1983 {{UK-videogame-company-stub