Creative Sparks
Moby ID: 5174
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Creative Sparks was the Software publishing label of Thorn EMI, launched in 1984.
Credited on 25 Games from 1983 to 1985
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| Ice Palace (1985 on Commodore 64) |
| Danger Mouse In Making Whoopee (1985 on ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC) |
| Desert Burner (1985 on ZX Spectrum) |
| Snodgits (1985 on Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC) |
| Taskmaster (1985 on Commodore 64) |
| Bird Mother (1984 on Commodore 64) |
| Black Hawk (1984 on Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum) |
| Danger Mouse in Double Trouble (1984 on Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC) |
| Danger Mouse in the Black Forest Chateau (1984 on Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, MSX) |
| Delta Wing (1984 on ZX Spectrum) |
| Macbeth (1984 on Commodore 64) |
| Special Delivery: Santa's Christmas Chaos (1984 on Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, ZX Spectrum) |
| Tower of Evil (1984 on VIC-20, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Antstream...) |
| Countdown to Shutdown (1984 on Commodore 64, Apple II) |
| Desmond's Dungeon (1984 on Antstream, Atari 8-bit) |
| Java Jim... in Square Shaped Trouble (1984 on Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit) |
| Slurpy (1984 on Commodore 64, ColecoVision) |
| Tank Commander (1984 on Atari 8-bit, VIC-20) |
| Wing Commander (1984 on Commodore 64) |
| Carnival Massacre (1983 on Atari 8-bit) |
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History +
- April 1987
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From ZX Computing Magazine (April 1987) regarding Creative Sparks' new label Status Software: "Creative Sparks Distribution were there, announcing their new Status label. The first releases on the label are Quest for the Ring and Fortune Teller, two games for that most popular of home computers, the IBM, but a few Status games should eventually find their way onto the Spectrum."
- January 1985
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In 1985 the company decided to rely entirely on outside developers for all future games and made it's entire in-house team of 18 programmers redundant
- 1984
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Label formed
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 6 games with Thorn EMI Computer Software
- 1 game with Northwest Synergistic Software
- 1 game with Oxford Digital Enterprises Ltd.
- 1 game with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 1 game with Dalali Software Ltd.
- 1 game with Andromeda Software
- 1 game with Alternative Software Ltd.
- 5 games with Blake Sears
- 3 games with Edgar Belka
- 3 games with Phil Snell
- 3 games with Dean Lock
- 2 games with Martin Sexton
- 2 games with Kevin Buckner
- 2 games with Chris James
- 1 game with Nick Burroughs
- 1 game with Steve Wiggins
- 1 game with Ivan Manley
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