Image Works
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Company type | Defunct |
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Industry | Video game publisher |
Founded | 1988 |
Defunct | 1992 |
Headquarters | United Kingdom |
Products | Cadaver Speedball Bombuzal Xenon 2: Megablast |
Image Works was a British video game publisher that served as a publishing label for Mirrorsoft between 1988 and 1992, when the parent company went bankrupt.
History
The first two games published under the Image Works label were Fernandez Must Die and Foxx Fights Back.[1] Image Works notably became the European publisher for all the titles developed by The Bitmap Brothers, starting with their second game Speedball, until The Bitmap Brothers founded their own publishing brand Renegade Software. Over the course of its existence, Image Works also acquired the publishing rights to film adaptations from the Back to the Future and Predator franchises, as well as home computer ports of arcade and console games such as Passing Shot, Cisco Heat and the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games by Konami: these ports and adaptations were consistently released on all the Western 8-bit and 16-bit computer systems supported by the publisher. Until the demise of Mirrorsoft in 1992, games were published on ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS as well as other platforms such as the MSX and Master System.
Games published
Year | Title | Platform(s) | |
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PC | Console | ||
1988 | Bombuzal | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS | – |
Fernandez Must Die | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum | – | |
Foxx Fights Back | Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum | – | |
SkyChase | Amiga, Atari ST | – | |
Speedball | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS | Master System | |
1989 | Blasteroids | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, ZX Spectrum | – |
Bloodwych | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum | – | |
Interphase | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS | – | |
Omnicron Conspiracy | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS | – | |
Passing Shot | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum | – | |
Phobia | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 | – | |
Xenon 2: Megablast | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS | Master System | |
1990 | Back to the Future Part II | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum | Master System |
Cadaver | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS | – | |
Flip-it & Magnose: Water Carriers from Mars | Amiga, Atari ST | – | |
Gravity | Amiga, Atari ST | – | |
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS | – | |
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, ZX Spectrum | – | |
Theme Park Mystery | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS | – | |
1991 | Back to the Future Part III | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum | Master System |
Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge | Amiga | – | |
Blade Warrior | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS | – | |
Brat | Amiga, Atari ST | – | |
Cisco Heat | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum | – | |
Devious Designs | Amiga, Atari ST | – | |
First Samurai | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 | – | |
Killing Cloud | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS | – | |
Mega Lo Mania | Amiga, Atari ST | – | |
Predator 2 | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum | – | |
Robozone | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum | – | |
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum | – |
References
- ^ CRASH 60 - 1988 Lookback
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