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Quicksilva

History

Quicksilva were one of the earliest software houses and formed in 1979. As well as their own range of early arcade clones they also published The Trader Trilogy for Pixel Productions and ports of Llamasoft games for Salamander Software. Argus Press bought the company in 1984 and had their best chart performance with Soft Aid in early 1985. The charity compilation was the final release before Argus moved the company to London and managers Paul Cooper and Rod Cousens left to run the Electric Dreams label for Activision.

Argus Press became Grandslam in late 1987 and used the Quicksilva name for the last time on their conversions of Namco's Pac-Land.

Note

The figures for Months in the Top 10 and Months at No. 1 are based on the All Format and Multi Format chart only.
Columns are sortable, sorting by the cover column will sort by chart appearance date.

TitleTop 10No. 1Rank
Cover(s)Soft Aid

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

6525
Cover(s)Ant Attack

QUICKSILVA

5072
Cover(s)Trashman

NEW GENERATION / QUICKSILVA

3 < 1 200
Cover(s)Gridrunner

LLAMASOFT / QUICKSILVA / SALAMANDER SOFTWARE

40222
Cover(s)Time-Gate

QUICKSILVA

10283
Cover(s)Bugaboo the Flea

QUICKSILVA

10395
Cover(s)The Trader Trilogy

QUICKSILVA / PIXEL

10446
Cover(s)Fred

QUICKSILVA

10487
Cover(s)Pac-Land

GRANDSLAM / QUICKSILVA / NAMCO

< 1 0620
Cover(s)QS Scramble

QUICKSILVA

00671
Cover(s)Glass

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

< 1 0763
Cover(s)QS Defenda

QUICKSILVA

00821
Cover(s)QS Asteroids

QUICKSILVA

00831
Cover(s)Summer Games

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA / EPYX

< 1 0875
Cover(s)Glider Rider

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

< 1 0900
Cover(s)Skyhawk

QUICKSILVA

001005
Cover(s)QS Invaders

QUICKSILVA

001021
Cover(s)Meteor Storm

QUICKSILVA

001032
Cover(s)Mined Out

QUICKSILVA

001060
Cover(s)Space Intruders

QUICKSILVA

001226
Cover(s)Gryphon

QUICKSILVA

001340
Cover(s)The Snowman

QUICKSILVA

001408
Cover(s)Frenzy

QUICKSILVA

< 1 01422
Cover(s)Purple Turtles

QUICKSILVA

001751
Cover(s)Quintic Warrior

QUICKSILVA

001883
Cover(s)Subspace Striker

QUICKSILVA / PIXEL

002135
Cover(s)Cosmic Guerilla

QUICKSILVA

002243
Cover(s)Xadom

QUICKSILVA

002344
Cover(s)Beeb Art

QUICKSILVA

002349
Cover(s)Sting 64

QUICKSILVA

002386
Cover(s)Traffic

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

002437
Cover(s)Zombie Zombie

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

002450
Cover(s)Strontium Dog: The Killing

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

002460
Cover(s)Elevator Action

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA / TAITO

002561