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were also the last games by The RamJam Corporation and Delta 4. The RamJam Corporation had already collapsed by the time their game was published, and Fergus McNeill created Abstract Concepts, a new label with
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The Piranah Software label was announced as a "long term commitment to the game market" in July 1986 and its first five titles were officially launched at the
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titles developed by Five Ways Software were followed in 1984 with four mathematics titles featuring Macmillan's own video game character,
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but lacked the gameplay of his earlier hit with illogical puzzles and frustrating controls. There was a much more positive reception for
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in 1986 and closed eighteen months later. In that time it gained a reputation for its unusual output from well known developers such as
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Macmillan first entered the computer software market in 1983 when it jointly produced a range of educational software with
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was one of Design Design's final games. The team renamed themselves Walking Circles and developed titles including
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winning multiple awards from the press and described as one of the best games ever released for the ZX Spectrum.
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and moved away from educational software with a range of book and software packs including titles endorsed by
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In the latter half of 1985, the company released its first licensed products with two games tying in with the
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all entered the top 10 budget games charts in 1988. Alternative Software went on to publish two sequels to
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Piranha announced a return to book, comic and cartoon tie-ins with a host of planned releases based on
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obtained the rights to Piranha's back catalogue and quickly re-released the games at £1.99.
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allowed another conversion of one of his novels. In a 1993 interview about the upcoming
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when he was offered the opportunity to translate a book into an adventure game.
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Don Priestley was approached to bring the graphical techniques had used on
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Only the Commodore 64 version was released before the label was closed.
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who proclaimed the software to be a "technological advance". The
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novels and two games based on the animated television series
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The Astonishing Adventures of Mr. Weems and the She Vampires
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Design Design were commissioned to produce a game featuring
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comic, and were tasked with adapting the 1979 horror film
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Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 ports by Five Ways Software.
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reached numbers 12 and 15 in the Gallup software charts.
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was a short-lived video game publishing label created by
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Piranha's titles of 1987 were less well received. The
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into the same isometric style as their previous game,
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of Delta 4, who had recently had chart success with
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Index

Piranha Games
Piranha Bytes

Video games
London
United Kingdom
The Trap Door
The Colour of Magic
Parent
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers
Don Priestley
Design Design
Delta 4
Discworld
The Trap Door
Sinclair Research
ZX Spectrum
Clive Sinclair
Harold Macmillan
ITV
Orm and Cheep
Tottenham Hotspur
Ray Clemence
The Magic Circle
dk'Tronics
Personal Computer World
Olympia London
Rogue Trooper
2000 AD

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