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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 Formats 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

5526
Cover(s)Ant Attack

QUICKSILVA

5075
Cover(s)Gridrunner

LLAMASOFT / QUICKSILVA / SALAMANDER SOFTWARE

30189
Cover(s)Trashman

NEW GENERATION / QUICKSILVA

3 < 1 209
Cover(s)Time-Gate

QUICKSILVA

10216
Cover(s)Bugaboo the Flea

QUICKSILVA

< 1 0391
Cover(s)The Trader Trilogy

QUICKSILVA / PIXEL

10429
Cover(s)Pac-Land

GRANDSLAM / QUICKSILVA / NAMCO

< 1 0515
Cover(s)QS Scramble

QUICKSILVA

00709
Cover(s)Meteor Storm

QUICKSILVA

00786
Cover(s)Skyhawk

QUICKSILVA

00826
Cover(s)Fred

QUICKSILVA

< 1 0844
Cover(s)Mined Out

QUICKSILVA

00891
Cover(s)QS Defenda

QUICKSILVA

00910
Cover(s)QS Asteroids

QUICKSILVA

00923
Cover(s)Summer Games

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA / EPYX

00929
Cover(s)Glider Rider

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

< 1 01058
Cover(s)Glass

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

< 1 01104
Cover(s)Space Intruders

QUICKSILVA

001120
Cover(s)QS Invaders

QUICKSILVA

001177
Cover(s)Purple Turtles

QUICKSILVA

001467
Cover(s)Gryphon

QUICKSILVA

001479
Cover(s)Frenzy

QUICKSILVA

< 1 01652
Cover(s)Quintic Warrior

QUICKSILVA

001727
Cover(s)The Snowman

QUICKSILVA

001787
Cover(s)Subspace Striker

QUICKSILVA / PIXEL

002204
Cover(s)Cosmic Guerilla

QUICKSILVA

002262
Cover(s)Xadom

QUICKSILVA

002311
Cover(s)Beeb Art

QUICKSILVA

002316
Cover(s)Sting 64

QUICKSILVA

002353
Cover(s)Traffic

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

002405
Cover(s)Zombie Zombie

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

002418
Cover(s)Strontium Dog: The Killing

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA

002428
Cover(s)Elevator Action

ARGUS PRESS / QUICKSILVA / TAITO

002535