The English Software Company

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Piccadilly, Manchester,North West England,England, United Kingdom

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Addresses (former)

USA:

The English Software Company Dept. C. P.O. Box 3185 Redondo Beach, California 90277 Tel.: (213) 372-3440

England (U.K.):

The English software Company Dept. CV. 50 Newton Street Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2EA. Tel.: 061-236 7259

Developed Games

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Jet-Boot Jack (Game)

31 December 1983

Jet-Boot Jack is a platformer in which the player controls a character named Jack who wears jet-boots.

CPC​ A800​ C64​ +1

Airstrike II (Game)

31 December 1983

A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up similar to Scramble and the second game in the Airstrike series written by Steven Riding.

A800​

Airstrike (Game)

31 December 1982

A Scramlbe-like horizontal scrolling shoot'em up written by Steven Riding that was published for the Atari 8-bit computers.

A800​

Knight Games (Game)

31 December 1986

A medieval multi-event competition.

PC​ CPC​ C64​

Legend of the Knucker-Hole (Game)

31 December 1984

Legend of the Knucker-Hole is the second game to feature Jet-Book Jack. It was released on the Commodore 64 in 1984.

C64​

Neptune's Daughters (Game)

31 December 1983

A800​ C64​

Timeslip (Game)

1 May 1985

A 2D horizontal scrolling shoot 'em up in which the player has to safe a distant planet.

A800​ C16​

Henry's House (Game)

31 December 1984

Take little Henry through his house in this computer game.

A800​ C64​

Octapolis (Game)

31 December 1987

A side-scrolling action game set in the year 3897. The player is assigned the task of saving the planet of Octapolis from the evil Galactic Imperium.

C64​

Atari Smash Hits Volume 3 (Game)

1 August 1985

Five games in one for Atari 8-bit.

A800​

Elektraglide (Game)

Unknown Release

CPC​ A800​ C64​

Published Games

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Neptune's Daughters (Game)

31 December 1983

A800​ C64​

Octapolis (Game)

31 December 1987

A side-scrolling action game set in the year 3897. The player is assigned the task of saving the planet of Octapolis from the evil Galactic Imperium.

C64​

WitchSwitch (Game)

31 December 1984

C64​

Atari Smash Hits Volume 3 (Game)

1 August 1985

Five games in one for Atari 8-bit.

A800​

Elektraglide (Game)

Unknown Release

CPC​ A800​ C64​

Company details

Name

The English Software Company

Abbreviation

Founded

Location

Piccadilly, Manchester,North West England,England, United Kingdom

Website

Aliases

Developed Games

• Jet-Boot Jack (Game)
• Airstrike II (Game)
• Airstrike (Game)
• Knight Games (Game)
• Legend of the Knucker-Hole (Game)
• Neptune's Daughters (Game)
• Timeslip (Game)
• Henry's House (Game)
• Octapolis (Game)
• Atari Smash Hits Volume 3 (Game)
• Elektraglide (Game)
• view all →

Published Games

• Neptune's Daughters (Game)
• Octapolis (Game)
• WitchSwitch (Game)
• Atari Smash Hits Volume 3 (Game)
• Elektraglide (Game)
• view all →

Franchises

• Airstrike (Franchise)
• Jet-Boot Jack (Franchise)

People

• None

Characters

• Jet-Boot Jack (Character)

Concepts

• Antstream Arcade (Concept)
• Single Word Titles (Concept)
• 2D (Concept)
• Jump (Concept)
• ASM Hit (Concept)
• Collectible (Concept)
• Combat-Based Platformer (Concept)
• Company Name in Title (Concept)
• Crouch (Concept)
• Dragon (Concept)
• Ghost (Concept)
• Isometric Viewpoint (Concept)
• Knight (Concept)
• Princess (Concept)
• Sequel (Concept)
• Single-Screen Level (Concept)
• Spiders (Concept)
• Sprite (Concept)
• Witch (Concept)
• Young Protagonist (Concept)

Locations

• Home (Location)

Objects

• Alarm Clock (Object)
• Barrel (Object)
• Bathtub (Object)
• Bed (Object)
• Biplane (Object)
• Bone (Object)
• Boots (Object)
• Brick (Object)
• Candle (Object)
• Cauldron (Object)
• Clock (Object)
• Coffin (Object)
• Crate (Object)
• Cross (Object)
• Crown (Object)
• Cup (Object)
• Curtain (Object)
• Door (Object)
• Dresser (Object)
• Fork (Object)