Image Works

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Image Works
Company typeDefunct
IndustryVideo game publisher
Founded1988
Defunct1992
HeadquartersUnited Kingdom
ProductsCadaver
Speedball
Bombuzal
Xenon 2: Megablast

Image Works was a British video game publisher that served as a publishing label for Mirrorsoft between 1988 and 1992, when the parent company went bankrupt.

History[edit]

The first two games published under the Image Works label were Fernandez Must Die and Foxx Fights Back.[1] Image Works notably became the European publisher for all the titles developed by The Bitmap Brothers, starting with their second game Speedball, until The Bitmap Brothers founded their own publishing brand Renegade Software. Over the course of its existence, Image Works also acquired the publishing rights to film adaptations from the Back to the Future and Predator franchises, as well as home computer ports of arcade and console games such as Passing Shot, Cisco Heat and the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games by Konami: these ports and adaptations were consistently released on all the Western 8-bit and 16-bit computer systems supported by the publisher. Until the demise of Mirrorsoft in 1992, games were published on ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS as well as other platforms such as the MSX and Master System.

Games published[edit]

Year Title Platform(s)
PC Console
1988 Bombuzal Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
Fernandez Must Die Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
Foxx Fights Back Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
SkyChase Amiga, Atari ST
Speedball Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS Master System
1989 Blasteroids Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, ZX Spectrum
Bloodwych Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum
Interphase Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
Omnicron Conspiracy Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
Passing Shot Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum
Phobia Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64
Xenon 2: Megablast Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS Master System
1990 Back to the Future Part II Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum Master System
Cadaver Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
Flip-it & Magnose: Water Carriers from Mars Amiga, Atari ST
Gravity Amiga, Atari ST
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, ZX Spectrum
Theme Park Mystery Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
1991 Back to the Future Part III Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum Master System
Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge Amiga
Blade Warrior Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
Brat Amiga, Atari ST
Cisco Heat Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum
Devious Designs Amiga, Atari ST
First Samurai Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64
Killing Cloud Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
Mega Lo Mania Amiga, Atari ST
Predator 2 Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum
Robozone Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum

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