reading or external links but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . may 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message industry video game industry interactive entertainment founded 1985 headquarters united kingdom website www.audiogenic.com audiogenic software was a united kingdom video game developer company . it was established in 1985 following an earlier audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s . it published its last new title in 1997 after the core of the development team were taken over by codemasters to create brian lara cricket on the playstation . the company is however still in existence and continues to license its portfolio of titles to third parties which for conversion onto new formats . though almost unknown in the united states the company was successful in the united kingdom and in australia with a line of cricket and rugby games some versions of which were licensed to other publishers . several games were also published under licence in japan including world class rugby for the super nes and a follow up world class rugby 2 both of which were published by imagineer . contents 1 first company 2 second company 3 games 4 see also 5 external links first company edit the original company audiogenic limited was started as a recording studio called sun in reading berkshire in 1975 by martin maynard . it was one of the first 8 track studios to operate outside london . by comparison with modern studios the recording equipment was very basic ; however it still recorded for bands including the vibrators xtc stadium dogs van morrison alan clayson and the new seekers . citation needed it offered an audio cassette duplication service and the company also made arrangements for pressing vinyl . terry clark recently performed february 2008 jonesfest a song about the studio at a tribute concert for garry jones at the south street centre in reading . 1 dead link around 1979 audiogenic became interested in the commodore pet computer and gained a contract to duplicate computer software on cassette . subsequently commodore international gave audiogenic the software manufacturing and selling rights but this arrangement came to an end with the advent of the commodore vic 20 . martin maynard flew to california and signed agreements with united microware industries cosmi creative software and broderbund some of the biggest suppliers of vic software at that time . audiogenic published software successfully in the uk but a decision to diversify by importing peripherals notably the koala pad and the entrepo quick data drive a continuous loop storage device for the commodore 64 contributed to a decline in profitability which led to the company ceasing to trade in 1985 . martin maynard returned to the audio duplication business and is still operating sounds good ltd in theale berkshire . second company edit the second audiogenic audiogenic software limited was formed to acquire the assets and goodwill of the original company . although financed and controlled by supersoft run by peter calver and pearl wellard a minority stake was held by martin maynard . at this time the company employed darryl still who produced a number of successful releases for the bbc micro such as psycastria and thunderstruck written by former members of the icon software team in north east england . peter scott and gary partis amongst them . maynard left the board in 1987 and still went on to manage the launch of the atari st lynx handheld and jaguar consoles in europe before stints with electronic arts and nvidia . in 1996 the audiogenic came to an arrangement with codemasters as a result of which the latter acquired the development team behind the brian lara series of cricket games and the following year the company ceased developing new titles . peter calver still owns supersoft and audiogenic but now runs lostcousins a family history website . games edit audiogenic published and or developed many popular games for a variety of computers and games consoles . the company s first release in 1985 was graham gooch s test cricket which had been developed by supersoft and the company continued to release sports games . for many years it was the world s leading producer of cricket games brian lara cricket and lara 96 were developed by audiogenic for the mega drive and released by codemasters both reached no. 1 in the uk charts . other sports titles included emlyn hughes international soccer graham gooch world class cricket allan border cricket european champions lothar matth us super league manager rugby league coach world class rugby european champions wembley international soccer wembley rugby league shane warne cricket and super tennis champs . with emlyn hughes international soccer in 1988 audiogenic pioneered the concept of a fast moving sports simulation featuring on screen commentary named players and management elements ; later with world class rugby and then european champions audiogenic introduced the concept of sports simulations with a choice of viewpoints . other titles included exterminator a coin op conversion helter skelter impact krusty s super funhouse bubble & squeak exile and loopz . loopz designed by ian upton is one of the few computer games to have been converted to a coin operated arcade game and whilst capcom the licensee never brought the game to market a video of the completed game exists . it was also licensed to barcrest for release as a skill with prizes amusement machine but this version also failed to make it to market . however versions were released for 18 different computer and video game formats including nes game boy ibm pc amiga and atari st. a follow up game super loopz was licensed to imagineer for the super nes and was published for the amiga by audiogenic . see also edit supersoft brian lara cricket series codemasters external links edit official website bbc games archive page for audiogenic audiogenic at ehis64.net audiogenic at mobygames retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title audiogenic & oldid 744310483 categories companies established in 1985video game companies of the united kingdomvideo game development companiesvideo game publishershidden categories articles lacking in text citations from may 2013all articles lacking in text citationsall articles with specifically marked weasel worded phrasesarticles with specifically marked weasel worded phrases from may 2013all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2013all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from may 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 14 october 2016 at 12 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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