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After being acquired by Telecomsoft in late 1985 for a six figure sum, Beyond continued to operate as a unique label, mostly releasing games that had already been in development for some time, as well as a number of conversions of existing titles. Telecomsoft did very little with the Beyond label
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The 16-bit home computer market, largely represented by the Atari ST and Amiga, was just beginning to take off in 1986 and the Rainbird label was an ideal opportunity to capitalise on it. Rather than concentrate on the more simplistic arcade action games that had dominated the 8-bit era, Rainbird
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British Telecom brought in Tony Rainbird, owner of budget software publisher Micro-Gold, to help set up the first Telecomsoft label, Firebird. Originally named Firefly Software, the label had to be renamed when it was discovered that the name had already been registered by another company.
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While Firebird Silver would release budget titles priced at £2.50, Firebird Gold would release more prestigious titles at a higher price. Firebird Gold established itself just as well as its budget counterpart. The label became synonymous with many classic 8-bit titles such as
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The Rainbird label was established in November 1985 by Tony Rainbird. For legal reasons, the label's original name, Bluebird, had to be changed, although it still retained Tony Rainbird's original idea of releasing all its games in striking blue packaging.
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range. Two price points were established for 8-bit software (£1.99 and £2.99) while a few budget 16-bit titles were priced at £9.99. These various price points were differentiated between by their own particular style of packaging.
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in 1989 in a deal reported to be worth around £2,000,000 after a failed management buyout. MicroProse sold the Silverbird label soon after acquisition, but continued to use the Rainbird and Firebird labels for a short period.
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published a range of titles that hadn't previously been released at a budget price point. This included many original new titles as well older full-price titles acquired from other publishers.
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Rather than attempt to juggle a potentially confusing budget label with the same branding as their full price software, Telecomsoft decided to rebrand their Silver 199 budget label as a single
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Although there were doubts as to whether or not the market could afford to sustain a range of budget titles, the Firebird Silver releases were successful. In February 1985,
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were the fastest growing sector within the computer software market at the time. Despite a turnover of over £6 million in 1987/88, British Telecom sold the three labels to
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In October 1985, the budget range was relaunched as the lower priced Firebird Silver 199 Range and a full price label, Firebird Hot, was created to publish titles such as
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As the Rainbird label became the home of Telecomsoft's premium products, the Gold and Hot labels slowly merged into a single full price range which went on to publish
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A final overhaul of the Firebird brand was conducted in early 1988 as the budget titles became rebranded as Silverbird.
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MicroProse continued to use the Rainbird label for a number of years, after its acquisition of Telecomsoft.
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titles and a small number of original titles before closing down their software publishing operations.
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Rainbird formed partnerships with a number of developers who would produce their next range of games.
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aimed to introduce cutting edge simulators, adventure games and utilities to the full-price market.
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publishing group in 1983, Beyond published numerous titles on the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and
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label to a Tudor Enterprises, a British publisher. They published a compilation pack of old
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were amongst the first developers to benefit from a publishing deal with the label.
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The first titles to be published on the Firebird Silver label in November 1984 were
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Firebird's success allowed them to acquire a number of third party developers, see
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Following MicroProse's acquisition of Telecomsoft, the US publisher sold off the
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Rather than simply republish their existing range of budget software,
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The company republished enhanced versions of adventure games by
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was the third best selling video game in the UK, behind only
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beyond these releases. A number of other titles, such as
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Firebird Software

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Video games
Ederyn Williams
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British Telecom
video game publisher
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British Telecom
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computer games
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