Imagine Software

Imagine Software
IndustryVideo games
Founded17 September 1982; 41 years ago (1982-09-17)
Founders
  • Mark Butler
  • David Lawson
Defunct9 July 1984; 40 years ago (1984-07-09)[1]
FateBankrupt
Successor
Headquarters
Merseyside
,
United Kingdom[2]
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
  • Ian Hetherington
  • David Lawson
  • Mark Butler
  • Bruce Everiss
ProductsComputer games
Number of employees
80[3]

Imagine Software was a British video games developer based in Liverpool which existed briefly in the early 1980s, initially producing software for the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20. The company rose quickly to prominence and was noted for its polished, high-budget approach to packaging and advertising (at a time when this was not commonplace in the British software industry), as well as its self-promotion and ambition.

Following Imagine's high-profile demise under mounting debts in 1984, the name was bought and used as a label by Ocean Software until the late 1980s.

  1. ^ "Imagine in hands of receiver". Popular Computing Weekly. 19 July 1984. Archived from the original on 28 October 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
  2. ^ "Trivia for Imagine". Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Bitter split breaks Imagine". Popular Computing Weekly. 5 July 1984. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2008.