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| Industry | Video games |
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| Founder | John Symes |
| Headquarters | St Austell, Cornwall, England |
| Products | Video games |
Microdeal was a British software company which operated during the 1980s and early 1990s from its base at Truro Road in the town of St Austell, Cornwall. The company, founded by John Symes was one of the major producers of games and other software for the 8-bit home computers of the time,[citation needed] in particular the Dragon 32[1]: 118 and the similar Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer ("CoCo").
The 8-bit software market dwindled toward the end of the 1980s and Symes officially announced that Microdeal would no longer publish for the Dragon and Tandy machines on 1 January 1988; from this point they would concentrate on the newer generation of 16-bit computers, the Amiga and Atari ST, with their remaining stock of Dragon and Tandy software to be sold off by a company called Computape. Many of Microdeal's 16-bit titles were updated versions of successful 8-bit games such as Time Bandit and Tanglewood, but proved less successful the second time around. This was followed by The Karate Kid Part II: The Computer Game, based on the 1986 film. The company was quick to recognise the music capabilities of the Atari ST and Amiga and went in production of Music Samplers such as "MasterSound" and "Amas", the latter of which was featured on a Paula Abdul music video, which won MTV's Music Video of the year award. The companies publishing licences were sold to "Hi-Soft" and it ceased trading in the early 1990s.[2]
- ^ Navarro-Remesal, Víctor; Pérez Latorre, Óliver (2022). "Cuthbert Goes Cloning : Ports, Platforms, and the Dragon 32 Microcomputer". Perspectives on the European Videogame. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789463726221.
- ^ "MicroDeal Ltd". MobyGames. Retrieved 24 October 2023.