Imagine
Overview
When Mark Lawson and David Butler founded Imagine in 1983, they launched perhaps the UK industry's most spectacular boom-and-bust story. Within months they were churning out hit games for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, had lavish offices in Liverpool, and were doing features for major newspapers as part of the explosion in computer software sales. By mid-1984 they collapsed however, citing massive debts, especially to magazines for advertising.
Butler and Lawson were key figures at
Psygnosis, while the Imagine name was bought by
Ocean, who mainly used it for
Konami arcade conversions -
Bubble Bobble and
Arkanoid were notable successes - before phasing the label out in the late 80s.
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Trivia
The average age of the original company's programmers in 1984 was just 19. Many of these were on contracts to earn more than £20,000 a year, a huge sum for a new industry in those days.
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