Imagine Software

Imagine Software
Industry	Video games
Founded	17 September 1982
Founders	Mark Butler; David Lawson;
Defunct	9 July 1984
Fate	Bankrupt
Successor	Beau Jolly; Ocean Software; Psygnosis Limited;
Headquarters	Merseyside, United Kingdom
Area served	United Kingdom
Key people	Ian Hetherington; David Lawson; Mark Butler; Bruce Everiss;
Products	Computer games
Number of employees	80

Imagine Software was a British video games developer based in Liverpool which existed briefly in the early 1980s, initially producing software for the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20. The company rose quickly to prominence and was noted for its polished, high-budget approach to packaging and advertising (at a time when this was not commonplace in the British software industry), as well as its self-promotion and ambition.

Following Imagine's high-profile demise under mounting debts in 1984, the name was bought and used as a label by Ocean Software until the late 1980s.

^ "Imagine in hands of receiver". Popular Computing Weekly. 19 July 1984. Archived from the original on 28 October 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
^ "Trivia for Imagine". Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^ "Bitter split breaks Imagine". Popular Computing Weekly. 5 July 1984. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2008.

[PCW19Jul84-1] "Imagine in hands of receiver". Popular Computing Weekly. 19 July 1984. Archived from the original on 28 October 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2008.

[2] "Trivia for Imagine". Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

[PCW5Jul84-3] "Bitter split breaks Imagine". Popular Computing Weekly. 5 July 1984. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2008.

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