Overview
U.S. Gold was a British computer and video game publisher and developer from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s, producing numerous titles on a variety of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit platforms.
U.S. Gold was founded in Birmingham in 1984 by
Geoff Brown as the publishing division of
Centresoft. The publisher continued to expand their operation well into the 1990s. However, a number of their licensing deals, particularly one with
LucasArts, fell through, threatening to affect their income. In order to help consolidate their finances, they joined forces with UK software distributor
CentreSoft to form the
CentreGold Plc Group. Internal game development studios owned by U.S. Gold were the internally formed
Silicon Dreams and acquired
Core Design.
The group was acquired by
Eidos Interactive in April 1996. Eidos sold off CentreSoft and maintained Core Design as a developer but decided to discontinue the U.S. Gold brand. Silicon Dreams was sold back to U.S. Gold founder
Geoff Brown and became the keystone for his new development venture Geoff Brown Holdings (GBH).
The last retail game to bear the U.S. Gold logo was
Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996, released in June 1996.
Associated labels of U.S. Gold:
Games
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Trivia
Winner Software House of the Year 1988 in the "Golden Joystick" Awards organised by the magazine Computer and Video Games (reported issue #79, 1988/5). Only UK software houses were included in the Awards.
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