U.S. Gold Ltd.
Moby ID: 587
Trivia add
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.
Contributed by Jo ST.
The cassette versions of US Gold's games had a very characteristic loading screen (loading games from cassette usually took several minutes): the computer would play synthesized renderings of The Star-Spangled Banner, Yankee Doodle, and Dixie's Land repeatedly, in that order, until the loading of the game finished and gameplay could commence. While playing the music the screen would display a countdown of the remaining number of "blocks" to be loaded, along with a scrolling line of text advertising other US Gold games, existing as well as upcoming ones.
Source: Wikipedia
Contributed by Sciere.
Location in October 1995:
US Gold Ltd.
Units 2&3 Holford Way, Holford
Birmingham B6 7AX
England
Contributed by Jeanne.
U.S. Gold Ltd.'s phone number at Holford Way, Birmingham, UK is 0121 606 1800
Contributed by piltdown_man.
In 1989 the readers of the UK magazine Computer and Video Games voted US Gold as runner-up in the yearly Golden Joystick Awards in the category "Software House of the Year 8-bit".
Contributed by Jo ST.