Denton Designs

Denton Designs was a British video game developer based in Liverpool. The company was founded in 1984 and initially specialised in developing software for the ZX Spectrum home computer. Amongst the founders were developers who had worked on the unfinished "Mega game" Bandersnatch for Imagine Software.

Denton Designs

Company type	Private
Industry	Video games
Predecessor	Imagine Software
Founded	September 1984; 40 years ago (1984-09)
Founders	Steve Cain Ian Weatherburn Ally Noble John Gibson Karen Davies Graham Everett [nb 1][1]
Defunct	1995
Fate	Takeover by Rage Software
Headquarters	Liverpool , United Kingdom
Key people	Steve Cain (Art designer), Graham Everett (Software developer), Karen Davies (Art designer), Ally Noble (Art designer), John Gibson (Gameplay programmer)
Products	Frankie Goes to Hollywood The Great Escape Eco Where Time Stood Still

History

Denton Designs was founded in September 1984 by six former Imagine staff - Steve Cain, Ian Weatherburn, Ally Noble, John Gibson, Karen Davies and Graham "Kenny" Everett.^[2][3]

When Denton Designs was contracted to develop Shadowfire, Ian Weatherburn became disillusioned with the fact that the company was no longer operating as it had when they had been part of Imagine, and on issuing an ultimatum was sacked by the rest of the directors. He subsequently joined Ocean.^[3]

In March 1986, the company split, with founders Cain, Davies, Everett and Gibson leaving. Of the original founders, only Ally Noble remained.^[4]

In December 1995, Denton Designs was acquired by Rage Software.^[5]

Games developed

Year	Title	Platform(s)	Publisher
1984	Gift from the Gods	ZX Spectrum	Ocean
1985	Cosmic Wartoad	ZX Spectrum	Ocean
	Frankie Goes to Hollywood	Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
	Roland's Rat Race	Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
	Shadowfire	Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum	Beyond Software
	Sorderon's Shadow: The Legend of Elindor	ZX Spectrum
	Enigma Force	Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
1986	Dante's Inferno	Commodore 64
	Bounces	Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
	The Great Escape	Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum	Ocean
	Infodroid	Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64	Beyond Software
	The Transformers	Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum	Ocean
1987	Double Take
	Eco	Amiga, Atari ST
	Flashpoint	Thomson computers, ZX Spectrum
	Madballs	Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
	Mutants
1988	Where Time Stood Still	Atari ST, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum
	Foxx Fights Back	Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum	Image Works
	Troll	Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum	Kixx
1989	Eye of Horus	Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS	Logotron
1991	World Class Rugby	Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum	Audiogenic
	Wreckers	Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS
1992	World Class Rugby: Five Nations Edition
1993	Batman Returns	Amiga	Konami
	Krusty's Fun House	Game Boy, MS-DOS	Virgin Interactive
1994	Soccer	Game Boy	Rage Software
	Wembley Rugby League	Amiga, MS-DOS	Audiogenic

Notes

1. Graham's surname is spelled differently in various magazine interviews, including "Everritt", "Everrett" "Everitt" and "Everett". The Shadowfire manual spells it "Everett".