Ultrasoft

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Ultrasoft
Industry Video games
Founded1989
Defunct1998
FateDissolved
Successor Cyberdreams
Headquarters Bratislava, Slovakia
Key people
Louis Wittek, founder
Products Towdie , Atomix, Hexagonia
Number of employees
10+
Subsidiaries Bit magazine

Ultrasoft was a computer game developer and computer game publisher located in Bratislava, Slovakia. [1] [2] The company specialised in the development and publishing of games for the ZX Spectrum home computer. With over 40 titles published, [3] its most successful including the platform game Towdie and puzzle games Atomix and Hexagonia – Atomix 2. Ultrasoft also acted as an exclusive distributor within the territory of Czechoslovakia for Domark and Ocean Software [4] game software houses based in the UK. Apart from computer games, the company also published a dozen or so non-game titles, mostly for learning foreign languages, as well as text, image, sound and music editors.

Contents

The company was founded by Louis Wittek in 1989, and dissolved in 1998.

Published games

Example of Cover Art from some of the Ultrasoft's titles Ultrasoft Cover Art.jpg
Example of Cover Art from some of the Ultrasoft's titles
All games by Ultrasoft
TitleYearDeveloper (Country)Genre
Arkarum1990Rumatisoft (Slovakia) Shoot 'em up
Atomix1991Scorpion (Czech Republic) Puzzle video game
Axons1992Ľubomír Salanci (Slovakia) Shoot 'em up
Cesta Bojovníka (Way of the Warrior)1992KM Soft (Czech Republic) Fighting game
Chrobák Truhlík (Beetle Dim-witt)1991Sybilasoft (Slovakia) Text adventure
Crux 92 1992Marek Trefný (Czech Republic) Action Puzzle video game
Dokonalá vražda II - Bukapao (Perfect murder II - Bukapao)1991Ľudovít Wittek (Slovakia) Text adventure
Double Dash1991Fuxoft (Czech Republic) Action Puzzle video game
F.I.R.E.1991Fuxoft (Czech Republic) Shoot 'em up
Galactic Gunners1992Cybexlab Software (Czech Republic) Shoot 'em up
Hexagonia – Atomix 21992Scorpion (Czech Republic) Puzzle video game
Jet-Story 1992Cybexlab Software (Czech Republic) Arcade game
Kliatba Noci (Curse of the Night)1993Microtech Systems (United States)
DSA Computer Graphics (Slovakia)		 Action-adventure game
Komando 2 (Commando 2)1992Microtech Systems (United States)
DSA Computer Graphics (Slovakia)		 Shoot 'em up
Logic1991Rumatisoft (Slovakia) Puzzle video game
Notorik1992Bytepack (Slovakia) Action-adventure game
Octopussy1992Bytepack (Slovakia) Text adventure
Pedro 1 (Pedro on the Pirates' Island)1992Gold Storm (Slovakia) Action-adventure game
Pedro 2 (Pedro in the Haunted Castle)1993Gold Storm (Slovakia) Action-adventure game
Pedro 3 (Pedro in the Land of Pyramids)1993Gold Storm (Slovakia) Action-adventure game
Phantom F4 - Part 11992Microtech Systems DSA Computer Graphics (United States)
DSA Computer Graphics (Slovakia)		 Action game
Phantom F4 - Part 21992Microtech Systems (United States)
DSA Computer Graphics (Slovakia)		 Action game
Pick Out 21993Bytepack (Slovakia) Puzzle video game
Prva Akcia (First Heist)1992Microtech Systems (United States)
DSA Computer Graphics (Slovakia)		 Arcade game
Quadrax1994David Durčák and Marián Ferko (Slovakia) Puzzle video game
Rýchle Šípy 1 (Swift Arrows 1)1991Májasoft and CIDsoft (Czech Republic) Text adventure
Rýchle Šípy 2 (Swift Arrows 2)1991Májasoft and CIDsoft (Czech Republic) Text adventure
Sach-Mat (Check-Mate)1992Ján Deák (Slovakia) Chess video game
Sherwood1992DSA Computer Graphics (Slovakia) Action Strategy video game
Skladačka (Puzzle)1992Deltasoft (Slovakia) Text adventure
Star Dragon1991Scorpion (Czech Republic) Shoot 'em up
Tetris 2 1991Fuxoft (Czech Republic) Puzzle video game
Towdie 1994DSA Computer Graphics (Slovakia) Action-adventure game
Twilight - Krajina Tieňov (Twilight - The Land of Shadows)1995Ľubomír Dekan, Radoslav Javor and Norbert Grellneth (Slovakia) Adventure game

Other published titles

Bit magazine

Cover pages from the first and the last issue of the Bit magazine Bit 10-1991 and 12-1994.jpg
Cover pages from the first and the last issue of the Bit magazine

Between 1991 and 1994 Ultrasoft also published a specialised monthly magazine, Bit, aimed at owners of home computers and dealing with computer games in particular. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Extract from the Business Register of the District Court Bratislava I". orsr.sk. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
  2. ↑ Švelch, Jaroslav; Olli, Sotamaa (2021). Game Production Studies. Netherland: Amsterdam University Press. pp. 242, 246–247, 310, 329. ISBN   9789048551736. JSTOR   j.ctv1hp5hqw . Retrieved 26 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Ultrasoft - Slovakia". worldofspectrum.org. Retrieved 2012-09-14.
  4. ↑ Swertz, Christian; Wagner, Michael G. (2010). Game\\play\\society: Contributions to Contemporary Computer Game Studies (in English and German). Austria: kopaed. pp. 265–277. ISBN   9783867362405.
  5. ↑ Pavel Plíva. "ZX-Spectrum Games". Zx-spectrum.wz.cz. Archived from the original on 2013-06-07. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
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