Prism Leisure Corporation


Prism Leisure Corporation was a distribution and publishing company which primarily focused on reissues and compilations, often at low prices. The company was located in Enfield, Middlesex, United Kingdom, and was founded in 1980 as Geoff's Records by chairman Geoff Young.
The company expanded in 2002 by acquiring competitors and became the UK’s leading wholesaler and worldwide distributor of CDs, cassettes, computer games, videos and DVDs. They also handled board games and toys.

Products

DVD/video

Prism Leisure became a major publisher and distributor of budget home video on DVD and VHS. Titles include films such as Doomwatch, The Jigsaw Man, March or Die, The Brave Little Toaster, The Shawshank Redemption, Treasure Island and The Whistle Blower. They also released television series including Birds of a Feather.

List of studios distributed by Prism Leisure

This is a selection of companies that had their DVDs released by Prism Leisure.
The majority of Prism's musical catalogue were compilations and reissued material, including Jefferson Airplane's . Several compilations by country music singer Kenny Rogers were also released and/or distributed by Prism throughout their existence, of both his solo and group material.

Video games

Prism Leisure entered the video game industry in 1986 by creating the label Endurance Games to publish the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad re-releases of System 3's International Karate and purchasing Addictive Games, home of the best-selling Football Manager, the following year. Addictive was used as a full price label while the Paxman Promotions name was used for compilations. Prism also became the UK publisher for the US company First Star Software and saw them release new versions of some of their games, including and Boulder Dash II. Many old games were licensed for compilations with some getting individual releases.

Other merchandise

Prism Leisure also distributed board games and toys.