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Vortex Software

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List of games
ZX81 ZX Spectrum Amstrad CPC MSX Commodore C64
References
External links

Vortex Software was a video game developer founded by Costa Panayi and Paul Canter in the early 1980s to sell the game Cosmos which Panayi had developed for the Sinclair ZX81.^[1] They converted the game to the ZX Spectrum, but due to the low sales of the ZX81 version they licensed the game to Abbex.

Luke Andrews, Costa's brother-in-law, and Crete Panayi, Costa's brother, became involved to handle the business affairs and advertising respectively. The company was based at 280 Brooklands Road, Manchester, M23 9HD.

In the summer of 1984, Mark Haigh-Hutchinson was offered a position and ported several of the games to the Amstrad CPC in addition to writing Alien Highway for the ZX Spectrum.

Chris Wood and David Aubrey-Jones were also associated with Vortex as outside contractors.

The company produced several notable games for the 8-bit home computers of the period. Deflektor was also ported to the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST.

After the production of Hostile All Terrain Encounter in 1988, Costa spent the next two years deciding where he wanted to go. In 1990 Vortex was reborn with Costa, Mark and Luke and the intention to develop a game for the Amiga and Atari ST. They developed a much enhanced version of Highway Encounter in just three months, but failed to find a software publisher for the game, so it remained unpublished.

Several games achieved critical success; Tornado Low Level and Highway Encounter appearing in the "Your Sinclair official top 100",^[2] for example.

List of games

ZX81

ZX81 Othello (1981)
Word Mastermind (1981)
Pontoon (1981)
Crash (1981)
Astral Convoy (1983)
Serpent's Tomb (1983)

ZX Spectrum

Cosmos (1982), Abbex Electronics
Gun Law (1983)
The Reactor Run (1983), Vortex Software
Android 2 (1983), Vortex Software
Tornado Low Level (1984), Vortex Software
Cyclone (1985), Vortex Software
Highway Encounter (1985), Vortex Software
Alien Highway (1986), Vortex Software
Revolution (1986), U.S. Gold
Deflektor (1987), Gremlin Graphics
Hostile All Terrain Encounter (H.A.T.E.) (1989), Gremlin Graphics

Amstrad CPC

The Reactor Run (1985)
Android 2 (1985)
Highway Encounter (1985)
Tornado Low Level (T.L.L.) (1986)
Alien Highway (1986)
Revolution (1986, published by U.S. Gold)
Deflektor (1987, published by Gremlin Graphics)
Hostile All Terrain Encounter (H.A.T.E.) (1988, published by Gremlin 1990, unfinished)

MSX

Highway Encounter (1986)

Commodore C64

Highway Encounter (Pedigree Software, 1986, published by Gremlin Graphics)
Deflektor (Gremlin Graphics, 1987, published by Gremlin Graphics)
Hostile All Terrain Encounter (H.A.T.E.) (Gremlin Graphics, 1987, published by Gremlin Graphics)

References

1. ^"Flying Low" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222072424/http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/032/htsquad.htm |date=2007-02-22 }} article from Sinclair User issue 32; interview with Costa Panayi
2. ^{{cite journal |date=October 1991 |title=The YS Top 100 Speccy Games Of All Time (Ever!) |journal=Your Sinclair |issue=70 |pages=31 |url=http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/ystop100.htm |accessdate=2006-09-04 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060816053829/http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/ystop100.htm |archivedate=16 August 2006 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy-all }}

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070203013754/http://bsa.lu/dl/oc/zx81/vortex/history.doc History of Vortex Software] by Mark Haigh-Hutchinson
Costa Panayi at World of Spectrum

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