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Fantasy Software

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Successor
  
n/a

Headquarters
  
Cheltenham

Ceased operations
  
1985

Defunct
  
1985

Founded
  
1983

Former type
  
Video game developer and publisher

Key people
  
Paul Dyer, Bob Hamilton, Darren Hamilton, Ian Hamilton

Fantasy Software, which started out as Quest Microsoftware, was one of the smaller software companies which produced games for home computers, mainly the ZX Spectrum during the early 1980s. It had a number of reasonable successes in the early days of the computer boom but never became one of the major software production houses. Most of its releases were written by Bob Hamilton.

Contents

List of games

  • The Black Hole (1983) (as Quest)
  • Violent Universe (1983) (as Quest)
  • Doomsday Castle (1983) — reviewed in Crash issue 2: 87%
  • The Pyramid (1983) — reviewed in Crash issue 2: 83%
  • Beaky and the Egg Snatchers (1984) — reviewed in Crash issue 7: 75%
  • Backpackers Guide to the Universe (1984) — reviewed in Crash issue 12: 83%
  • The Drive-In (1984) — reviewed in Crash issue 13: 70%

    • History

  • In issue 19 of Crash magazine, they stated that a number of companies owed advertising fees including Fantasy Software, with a debt of £4,190.

    • References

    Fantasy Software Wikipedia
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