Electric Dreams Software

Electric Dreams Software
IndustryVideo games
Founded1985
Defunct1989
FateDefunct
Key people
Rod Cousens, Paul Cooper
ProductsSpindizzy (1986)
Aliens: The Computer Game (1986)
R-Type (1988)

Electric Dreams Software was a UK-based video game publisher established in 1985 by Activision[1] and run by Rod Cousens and Paul Cooper formerly of Quicksilva .[2] The company published video games for the ZX Spectrum,[3] Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC[4] and the Atari 8-bit computers[5] between 1985 and 1989, becoming one of the top eight UK software houses by 1987.[1]

In late 1986, the label was adapted by the American division to publish titles outside of England for the American market.[6]

  1. ^ a b Francis Jago (January 1987). "Big Trouble In Little Hampshire". Your Computer. No. 78. Focus Magazines. p. 78.
  2. ^ Goodwin, Simon (September 1985). "Planning our Future". CRASH (20). Retrieved 2007-11-09.
  3. ^ "Electric Dreams". SpectrumComputing.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-05-15.
  4. ^ "Electric Dreams". CPC Zone. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2007-11-09.
  5. ^ "Electric Dreams". Atarimania. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  6. ^ "Electric Dreams Imported Software". Computer Entertainer. September 1986. p. 3.