Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company that developed a range of 8-bit computer games during the 1980s, particularly for the Spectrum computer. Among the games considered their better efforts are Manic Miner and Twin Kingdom Valley.

The company were based in Liverpool, UK, and helped found a number of software houses in that region. By 1983 the company was having internal difficulties. Head programmer Eugene Evans and two of the senior staff left to form Imagine Software. Later in the year Matthew Smith, a freelance developer who wrote Manic Miner, left to form Software Projects. By June, 1985, with game quality in decline, they went into receivership and the rights to their games was purchased by Argus Press PLC. Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Manic Miner is a classic platform game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Bug-Byte in 1983 (later re-released by Software Projects). ... Software Projects was the name of a computer game development company, run by Manic Miner developer Matthew Smith. ... This article is about the year. ...

Software products

• Aardvark (1986)
• Antics (1985)
• Aquarius
• Automan (1985)
• Bomber Bob
• BOP! (1986)
• Break Out
• Cavern Fighter
• City Defence
• Codename Mat 2
• Cricket
• Diagon (1985)
• Dictator
• Birds and the Bees
• Dragonquest
• Droid Dreams (1988)
• Dunjunz
• Elevator Action
• Galaga (1988)
• Galaxy Wars
• Head Start
• Hoodoo Voodoo (1986)
• Hunkidory
• I-Wizard (1988)
• Ice Hockey
• International Cricket
• Invaders
• Jack Attack
• Jeep Command (1986)
• Kat Trap (1987)
• Kung-Fu
• Little Green Man (1988)
• Manic Miner (1983)
• Mazogs
• Miami Dice (1986)
• Mr. Mephisto (1984)
• Monkey Nuts
• Old Father Time
• Orbix The Terrorball
• Pi-R Squared
• Plan B
• Plan B2
• Roboto
• Sky Hawk (1986)
• Spectres
• Spellseeker (1987)
• Split Personalities
• Squeekaliser
• Star Force Seven
• Star Soldier (1987)
• Star Trader (1984)
• Strange Loop
• STI (Search for Terrestrial Intelligence) (1988)
• Styx
• Templeton
• Tennis
• Terramex
• The Castle (1983)
• Time Trax (1986)
• The Damsel and the Beast
• The Dogboy (1985)
• The Pay-Off (1984)
• Turmoil (1986)
• Twin Kingdom Valley (1983)
• Uranians
• Zoot (1987)

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External links

• This Tormented Business
• History of Home Computers