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Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, it also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and utility packages – these included word processor ''VIEW'' and the spreadsheet ''ViewSheet'' supplied on ROM and cartridge for the BBC Micro/Acorn Electron and included as standard in the BBC Master and Acorn Business Computer. Acornsoft was formed in late 1980 by Acorn Computers directors Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry, and David Johnson-Davies, author of the first game for a UK personal computer〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emp6zKh8KW8〕 and of the official Acorn Atom manual "Atomic Theory and Practice". David Johnson-Davies was Managing Director and in early 1981 was joined by Tim Dobson, Programmer and Chris Jordan, Publications Editor. While some of their games were clones or remakes of popular arcade games (e.g. ''Hopper'' is a clone of Sega's ''Frogger'', ''Snapper'' is Namco's ''Pac-Man'', ''Arcadians'' is Namco's ''Galaxian''), they also published a number of original ground-breaking titles such as ''Aviator'', ''Elite'' and ''Revs'' which went on to spawn entire genres that live on to this day. Acornsoft also published a number of text adventure games by authors such as Peter Killworth, including ''Philosopher's Quest'' (previously titled ''Brand X'') and ''Countdown to Doom'', that remain highly regarded within the interactive fiction community. Acornsoft ceased to operate as a separate company upon the departure of David Johnson-Davies in January 1986. Past this date, Acorn Computers used the Acornsoft name on office software it released in the ''VIEW'' family for the BBC Master series. In 1986 Superior Software was granted a licence to publish some Acornsoft games and rereleased many, individually and as compilations such as the ''Play It Again Sam'' and ''Acornsoft Hits'' series. By agreement, the Acornsoft name was also used on the packaging of some of the subsequent Superior games. Superior chose not to take on Acornsoft's text adventure games, most of which were released in updated versions by Topologika along with some sequels from the same authors. ==Branding== Acornsoft titles extended their consistent branding to the software's loading screens. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Acornsoft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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