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    Telecomsoft was a British video game publisher and a division of British Telecom. The company was founded by Ederyn Williams in 1984 and operated three...
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    eventually settled with Telecomsoft out of court and parted company with Graftgold. Graftgold produced several titles for Telecomsoft from 1987 until 1989...
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  • MicroStyle label. In 1989 MicroProse acquired the British publisher Telecomsoft and subsequently published games under their Firebird and Rainbird labels...
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  • of Yesod became an instant critical and commercial success, prompting Telecomsoft (the software division of British Telecom) to offer them a six-figure...
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  • publishing deal with developer Denton Designs. After being acquired by Telecomsoft in late 1985 for a six-figure sum, Beyond continued to operate as a unique...
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  • Studio 33 (defunct) Swordfish Studios (defunct) Talking Birds (defunct) Telecomsoft (defunct) THQ Digital Studios UK (defunct) Tiertex Design Studios (defunct)...
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  • Corporation Arcade, 64DD, N64 Unreleased Revs Geoff Crammond Acornsoft, Telecomsoft, Superior Software BBCM, C64 1984 rFactor Image Space Incorporated Image...
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    MicroProse under the labels "Firebird" and "Rainbird" (acquired after buying Telecomsoft in May 1989), including Mr. Heli, Midwinter and Core Design's Rick Dangerous...
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  • database management system Firebird, a video game label formerly owned by Telecomsoft Hi no Tori, known as Firebird in Europe, a computer game developed by...
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  • Superman: The Game (category Telecomsoft games)
    Atari 8-bit computers, but not all of them[which?] made it to release. Telecomsoft released the Spectrum version for the first time at a budget price in...
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  • March 2009. Jane Cavanagh, formerly an executive for British Telecom's Telecomsoft division, founded The Sales Curve in 1988, following a trip to Japan...
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  • Orbix the Terrorball Streetwise John Pragnell 1986 Superman: The Game Telecomsoft Jim Nangano, Fernando Herrera First Star Software, DC Comics 1986 Cyberun...
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  • Colde and Tablo Rainbird (software company), software label owned by Telecomsoft and Microprose Rain Bird, irrigation supplies manufacturer Rainbird (horse)...
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  • 2020 Beyond Software United Kingdom 1983 Lords of Midnight acquired by Telecomsoft in 1985 Big Ant Studios Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2001 Cricket 19...
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    Don't Buy This (category Telecomsoft games)
    marketing manager on Don't Buy This. Don't Buy This was published by Telecomsoft under the Firebird label. Firebird disowned the game upon release, with...
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  • eastern Africa Silverbird (software), a defunct software label owned by Telecomsoft This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Silverbird...
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  • Elite (video game) (category Telecomsoft games)
    publish Elite in other formats, which British Telecom's software arm, Telecomsoft, eventually won. Contemporary versions for home computers based on the...
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  • Retro Gamer Anthology, pages 61–63, Live Publishing, 2004 "Memories of Telecomsoft", Retro Gamer, no. 4, Imagine Publishing, pp. 43–49, May 2004 "Interview...
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    third instalment in the Exploding Fist series, were published through Telecomsoft's Firebird label. 1988 also saw the release of space-shoot'em-up Bedlam...
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  • The Pawn (category Telecomsoft games)
    The Pawn is an interactive fiction game for the Sinclair QL written by Rob Steggles of Magnetic Scrolls and published by Sinclair Research in 1985. In...
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  • Starglider 2 (category Telecomsoft games)
    Starglider 2 is a 3D space combat simulator published in 1988 by Rainbird as the sequel to 1986's Starglider. It was released for the Amiga, Atari ST,...
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  • Starglider (category Telecomsoft games)
    Starglider is a 3D video game published in 1986 by Rainbird. It was developed by Jez San under his company name Argonaut Software. The game is a fast-moving...
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  • a publication deal with Rainbird, a British software label owned by Telecomsoft, they began work producing an ambitious text adventure game that would...
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  • Rebelstar (category Telecomsoft games)
    packaging amateurish. Rebelstar was originally published in 1986 by Telecomsoft's budget label, Firebird. Unlike its predecessor it was written in machine...
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  • self-published each game separately, but the compilation was published by Telecomsoft, which sold it in the United States with the tradename Firebird and in...
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  • Thrust (video game) (category Telecomsoft games)
    Thrust is a 1986 video game programmed by Jeremy C. Smith (who later co-authored Exile) for the BBC Micro and published by Superior Software. The player's...
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  • Weird Dreams (category Telecomsoft games)
    Weird Dreams is a cinematic platform game developed by Rainbird Software which was published for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and DOS. A modified...
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  • Interactive (SCi), a British game developer and publisher founded by former Telecomsoft executive Jane Cavanagh in 1988. SCi had previously worked on conversions...
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  • The Sentinel (video game) (category Telecomsoft games)
    The Sentinel, released in the United States as The Sentry, is a puzzle video game created by Geoff Crammond, published by Firebird in 1986 for the BBC...
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  • Black Lamp (video game) (category Telecomsoft games)
    Black Lamp is a platform game, originally published by Firebird Software for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers in 1988, and later...
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