U.S. Gold
U.S. Gold Limited was a British video game publisher based in Witton, Birmingham, England. The company was founded in 1984 by Geoff Brown in parallel to his distributor firm, CentreSoft, both of which became part of Woodward Brown Holdings. The company primarily aimed at publishing games imported from the United States with a lower price tag in Europe and especially the United Kingdom.
By 1985, U.S. Gold projected a turnover of for their first fiscal year, and expected to release further 150 games in the year to come. In 1988, U.S. Gold received the Golden Joystick Award for "Software House of the Year". The company also operated the budget range label Kixx. In April 1996, Eidos Interactive acquired the entire CentreGold umbrella for, as a result of which U.S. Gold and CentreSoft ceased all operations.
Games published
Title | Release date | Platform |
Beach Head | EU:1984 | C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, BBC |
Hurricanes | NA:1994, EU:1994 | Super NES, Sega Genesis |
Infiltrator | EU:1986 | C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum |
Raid over Moscow | EU:1984 | C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, BBC |
Ace of Aces | 1986 | Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari 7800, Commodore 64, MSX, MS-DOS, Master System, ZX Spectrum |
Beast Busters | 1989, 1990 | Arcade, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST |
1989-1992 | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, MS-DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, MSX, Genesis, Master System, NES, ZX Spectrum | |
Shadow Dancer | NA:1991, EU:1991 | C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST |
Techno Cop | NA:1988, NA:1989 | Apple II, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Amiga |
The Incredible Hulk | NA: 1994, 1995, EU: 1994-1995 | |
Putty | 1992, 1993, 1994 | Amiga, Super NES, Amiga CD32 |