≠Unit 3 Addison Industrial Estate, Blaydon, Tyne & Wear, NE21
Tynesoft is my story of failure, hope, failure, more hope, more failure, a bit more hope, and a disappointing final near miss. The company was always on my would-be-nice-to-do list but I just couldn't justify a trip to Newcastle upon Tyne. The city is just too far out of my normal orbit to be practical. So I set the company aside, which was a shame because it's definitely one I wanted to cover. (Failure).Sunday, October 26, 2025
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Electric Dreams
31 Carlton Crescent, Southampton, SO1
No, I haven't gone nuts and you are not seeing double. Electric Dreams really did release two different games called Aliens. One in the winter of 1986 and the other in the spring of 1987. Yes, it was confusing when it happened in the eighties as well. Electric Dreams is the story of what Rod Cousens did after Quicksilva, so lets catch up on the back story first.
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Activision,
Argus,
Automata,
Bug-Byte,
CRL,
Electric Dreams,
Electronic Arts,
Elite,
Epyx,
Imagine,
Lusasfilm,
Martech,
Mr Micro,
Newsfield,
Ocean,
Quicksilva,
Realtime,
Software Creations,
Thalamus,
US Gold
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