Shadow Games

Shadow Games released quite a lot of low cost games for the Sinclair QL in the mid 1980s under the names Shadow Games and Shadow Soft. They were based in Cheddington, Bedfordshire and the rights to their software were purchased by Talent Computer Systems (except for APT which was withdrawn by its author several years previously).

The programs published by Shadow Games are:

• ACT the Adventure Creation Tool (Program to help you write text and graphics adventures) - titled APT (Adventure Programming Tool) by Shadow Games
• Area Radar Controller (Puts you in control of Air Traffic Control for 2 Airports)
• Blast Buggy (Colourful arcade game where you drive a buggy over the surface of an alien planet)
• Star Guard (Arcade game - only bundled with Galactic Invaders?)
• Galactic Invaders (Arcade game - only bundled with Star Guard?)
• Galactic Invaders and Star Guard (Double Game pack)
• Night Nurse (Colourful arcade adventure set in St Spooks Hospital)
• Paint Master (Program to help you add graphics to your own programs)
• Quazimodo (A classic arcade game - save Esmerelda from the tower)
• Space Paranoids (Another Alien shoot-em up game - Missing in Action)