Micro Power

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Micro Power was a British video game publisher established in the early 1980s, originally under the name 'Program Power'.^[1] From 1983 to 1987 the company published a number of video games, later using the 'Program Power' name as a trading name.^[2] Games were released mainly for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron but also for Atari, Commodore 64 and a number of other systems.

[edit] Games

Its most popular games include the arcade adventure Castle Quest by Tony Sothcott, billed as "Probably the most challenging game ever devised for the BBC Micro" (it was never converted for the Electron, probably because it used full-screen scrolling in a 16-colour mode), and the puzzle game Imogen by Michael St. Aubyn,^[3] which was noted for its witty, original puzzles and cute high-resolution monochrome graphics. Imogen was remade in 2003–4 for the PC by freeware group Ovine by Design ([1]).

Other games published by Micro Power in the 1980s include:

• Adventure
• Alien Destroyers
• Bandits at 3 O'Clock
• Block Buster
• Bumble Bee
• Chess
• Cybertron Mission
• Danger UXB
• Electron Invaders
• Escape from Moonbase Alpha
• Felix and the Fruit Monsters
• Felix in the Factory
• Felix Meets the Evil Weevils
• Frenzy
• Galactic Commander
• Gauntlet
• Ghouls
• Intergalactic Trader
• Jet Power Jack
• Killer Gorilla
• Mine; The
• Moon Raider
• Nemesis
• Plutonium Plunder
• Positron
• Rubble Trouble
• Stock Car
• Swag
• Swoop

[edit] References

1. ^ Micro Power company profile. The Underdogs. Retrieved on 2006-07-11.
2. ^ Micro Power section. The BBC Games Archive. Retrieved on 2006-07-14.
3. ^ Imogen 2004 credits. Ovine by Design. Retrieved on 2006-07-11.