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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

6526
Cover(s)Ant Attack

QUICKSILVA

5078
Cover(s)Gridrunner

LLAMASOFT / QUICKSILVA / SALAMANDER SOFTWARE

40173
Cover(s)Trashman

NEW GENERATION / QUICKSILVA

3 < 1 213
Cover(s)Time-Gate

QUICKSILVA

10253
Cover(s)Bugaboo the Flea

QUICKSILVA

10375
Cover(s)Pac-Land

GRANDSLAM / QUICKSILVA / NAMCO

< 1 0446
Cover(s)The Trader Trilogy

QUICKSILVA / PIXEL

10494
Cover(s)Fred

QUICKSILVA

10591
Cover(s)Summer Games

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA / EPYX

< 1 0737
Cover(s)QS Scramble

QUICKSILVA

00772
Cover(s)Glass

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

< 1 0846
Cover(s)Meteor Storm

QUICKSILVA

00847
Cover(s)Glider Rider

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

< 1 0865
Cover(s)Skyhawk

QUICKSILVA

00883
Cover(s)Mined Out

QUICKSILVA

00954
Cover(s)QS Defenda

QUICKSILVA

00975
Cover(s)QS Asteroids

QUICKSILVA

00985
Cover(s)Space Intruders

QUICKSILVA

001177
Cover(s)QS Invaders

QUICKSILVA

001227
Cover(s)Purple Turtles

QUICKSILVA

001520
Cover(s)Gryphon

QUICKSILVA

001532
Cover(s)Frenzy

QUICKSILVA

< 1 01693
Cover(s)Quintic Warrior

QUICKSILVA

001762
Cover(s)The Snowman

QUICKSILVA

001820
Cover(s)Subspace Striker

QUICKSILVA / PIXEL

002223
Cover(s)Cosmic Guerilla

QUICKSILVA

002279
Cover(s)Xadom

QUICKSILVA

002328
Cover(s)Beeb Art

QUICKSILVA

002333
Cover(s)Sting 64

QUICKSILVA

002370
Cover(s)Traffic

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

002421
Cover(s)Zombie Zombie

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

002434
Cover(s)Strontium Dog: The Killing

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

002444
Cover(s)Elevator Action

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA / TAITO

002545