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- Psygnosis - A company profile
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- Psygnosis is the international software
- developer and publisher whose name is
- synonymous with the quality 16bit games
- in the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST
- markets.
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- With titles such as Barbarian,
- Obliterator and Terrorpods under it's
- corporate belt, Psygnosis is recognized
- as having charted new territories in
- graphics, sound and game play.
-
- Having established this profile, the
- company went on to target a lower age
- group with arcade action style games
- under it Psyclapse label - adding a
- further dimension to it's marketing
- strategy but never compromising it's
- high standards.
-
- By investing many man years in the
- design, storyboard, writing, music,
- graphics and animation routines - then
- devoting further time to preparing the
- product for the market - each new title
- is primed for an assault on the charts.
- And there will be 15 of these launched
- between now and the end of the year.
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- Psygnosis boasts more than 30
- specialists on it's development team
- made up of innovative software
- engineers, graphic artists and
- animators, musicians and writers.
- Equipped with the best hardware and
- software tools money can buy -
- including the latest in 32 bit - the
- company has been able to achieve an
- unsurpassed level of quality control.
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- Now set to enter the PC and Commodore
- 64 entertainment arenas for the first
- time, Psygnosis is poised to become the
- market leader for superior games
- software across all popular formats in
- the 1990's.
-
- For Psygnosis the name of the game is
- always quality.
-
- That has been raison d'etre of the
- company since it was founded more than
- 4 years ago by joint Managing Director
- Jonathan Ellis and Ian Hetherington.
-
- Both Ellis, who came from an
- engineering background to head up the
- publishing operation, and Hetherington,
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