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Mirrorsoft

Founded: 1983

Defunct: 1991-12

Merged into: Acclaim Entertainment (1992)

Headquarters:

Irwin House, 118 Southwark St., London, SE1 OSW, United Kingdom^[1]

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Mirrorsoft was a video game software publisher headquartered in the United Kingdom, owned by Mirror Group Newspapers.

It was founded as a publisher of educational software before moving into games. Mirrorsoft's most notable game was Tetris; they were responsible for passing on the arcade rights and illegitimate console rights they acquired from Andromeda Software to Atari Games/Tengen, who would pass the Japanese arcade rights and illegitimate Mega Drive rights to Sega. All of Mirrorsoft's Sega games were published either through their publishing labels Arena and Image Works.

Due to financial troubles at Mirror Group in the latter half of 1991, Mirrorsoft ceased trading in December, and its assets were bought by Acclaim Entertainment in early 1992^[2]^[3]. The Image Works brand survived for a short period of time (a small handful of its titles being re-published by Virgin Games in the latter half of 1992), while Arena was maintained until 1994 after which everything was merged under a single Acclaim brand.

Softography

System 16

Tetris (1988)

Master System

Back to the Future Part II (1991)
Speedball (1991)

Mega Drive

Tetris (1989)
Battlemaster (1991)

References

[:File:SummerCES1991_Directory.pdf_p269-1] Summer CES Directory, page 269

[:File:VG.26amp.3BCE_US_40.pdf_p22-2] VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "May 1992" (US; 1992-0x-xx), page 22

[:File:GamePro_US_034.pdf_p98-3] GamePro, "May 1992" (US; 1992-xx-xx), page 98

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-Mirrorsoft was a computer game software publisher in the United Kingdom, owned by Mirror Group Newspapers. It was founded as a publisher of educational software before moving into games. One offshoot of its printing roots was Fleet Street Publisher on several platforms. A PC version was developed by Rowan Software but was scrapped before release.
+| logo=Mirrorsoft logo.png
+| founded=1983
+| defunct=1991-12
+| mergedinto=[[Acclaim Entertainment]] (1992)
+| headquarters=Irwin House, 118 Southwark St., London, SE1 OSW, United Kingdom{{fileref|SummerCES1991 Directory.pdf|page=269}}
+}}
+{{sub-stub}}'''Mirrorsoft''' was a video game software publisher headquartered in the United Kingdom, owned by Mirror Group Newspapers.
-Mirrorsoft's most famous - and infamous - product was Tetris, the rights to which were acquired in a series of complicated licensing issues.
+It was founded as a publisher of educational software before moving into games. Mirrorsoft's most notable game was ''[[Tetris]]''; they were responsible for passing on the arcade rights and illegitimate console rights they acquired from Andromeda Software to [[Atari Games]]/[[Tengen]], who would pass the Japanese arcade rights and illegitimate Mega Drive rights to [[Sega]]. All of Mirrorsoft's Sega games were published either through their publishing labels [[Arena]] and [[Image Works]].
-The company was voted Best 16-bit Software House of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards.
+Due to financial troubles at Mirror Group in the latter half of 1991, Mirrorsoft ceased trading in December, and its assets were bought by [[Acclaim Entertainment]] in early 1992{{magref|vgce|40|22}}{{magref|gamepro|34|98}}. The Image Works brand survived for a short period of time (a small handful of its titles being re-published by [[Virgin Games]] in the latter half of 1992), while Arena was maintained until 1994 after which everything was merged under a single Acclaim brand.
-Many games were not released under the name "Mirrorsoft", but under publishing labels like Image Works.
+==Softography==
+{{CompanyHistoryAll|Mirrorsoft}}
-Mirrorsoft was bought by Acclaim Entertainment in 1992.
+==References==
+<references />
+[[Category:Third-party software publishers]]
+[[Category:Licensors]]