Grandslam Entertainment (later Grandslam Video) was a computer and video games

Computer and video games

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 software house

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 based in Britain

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. It was formed in late 1987 from the ashes of Argus Press Software by former Argus Managing Director, Stephen Hall. Grandslam developed and published many games for home computer

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s during the 1980s and 1990s. Originally based in central London, the offices were relocated to Croydon

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 in 1990.

List of games

1987

• Peter Shilton's Handball Maradona!
• Terramex

1988

• Chubby Gristle
• Espionage
• City Survivor
• The Flintstones
• Pac-Land
  Pac-Land
  is an entry in the Pac-Man series of arcade video games, released into arcades by Namco, and its American distributor Bally Midway , in 1984. It was the first Namco arcade game to use the then-new arcade system later titled as Namco Pac-Land...
  
  
• Pac-Mania
  Pac-Mania
  is an arcade video game in the Pac-Man series, released by Namco in 1987 and distributed by Atari Games in the United States and Europe. It is a pseudo-3D interpretation of the classic maze game genre using an isometric view and features most elements of the original Pac-Man, as well as several new...
  
  
• Peter Beardsley
  Peter Beardsley
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  's International Football
• Alternate Reality: The City

1989

• The Running Man
• Saint
  Ian St. John
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   & Greavsie
  Jimmy Greaves
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• Thunderbirds
  Thunderbirds (TV series)
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• The Seven Gates of Jambala
• Warp
• Terry's Big Adenture
• Trivia - The Ultimate Quest

1990

• The Hunt for Red October (1990 video game, Amiga)
  The Hunt for Red October (1990 video game, Amiga)
  The Hunt for Red October is video game based on the movie The Hunt for Red October. It was developed by Images Software and released by Grandslam Interactive Ltd...
  
  
• Scramble Spirits
• Space Harrier II
  Space Harrier
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• Leavin Teramis
• Dragonflight

1991

• Die Hard 2: Die Harder
• England Championship Special

1992

• Nick Faldo
  Nick Faldo
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  's Championship Golf
• Stone Age

1993

• Liverpool
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  : The Computer Game
• Beastlord
• Armaeth: The Lost Kingdom
• Chambers of Shaolin

1994

• Bump 'N' Burn
• Nick Faldo's Championship Golf
• Reunion
  Reunion (video game)
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• Beavers
• ITS Cricket: International Test Series

1995

• Base Jumpers
• ITS Cricket: International Test Series

External links

• Grandslam Interactive Ltd. at MobyGames
  MobyGames
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