limited company industry video game industry founded 1990 headquarters wakefield west yorkshire united kingdom key people deborah bestwick products video games number of employees 75 2015 1 website team17.com team17 digital ltd founded as 17 bit software and later named team17 software ltd is a british video game developer best known for creating the worms and alien breed video game series . most of their early releases were on the amiga home computer system and featured trademark smooth scrolling and detailed cartoonish art . team17 now develops for microsoft windows android ios and video game consoles . contents 1 history 2 games 2.1 cancelled games 3 amiga power dispute 4 references 5 external links history edit the company were originally called 17 bit software which grew out of the microbyte retail chain in 1987 and specialised in cataloguing producing and publishing an amiga public domain software library . 2 most sales were made for freeware games and utility disks such as the virus checkers . during the formation of team17 martyn brown actively recruited coders and artists from the amiga demo scene to program games for team17 . in 1990 a developer called team 7 3 approached 17 bit to publish their new game . they combined to form team17 4 and in 1991 published the fighting game full contact for the amiga with the intention to produce a game that made use of this computer s unique capabilities . team17 then went on to develop further amiga games including the alien breed and body blows series . team17 also published titles in the uk for other developers such as audios and eclipse uk . almost all early titles were the result of liaising with freelance developers ; there were few in house developers . team17 s amiga era logo in 1995 team17 entered into an agreement with ocean software whereby ocean would co publish team17 s titles worldwide . the first title to be released under this agreement was alien breed 3d for the amiga and amiga cd32 systems . the second title was worms team17 s biggest success to date and team17 s first multiple format release ; the game was published in late 1995 and early 1996 for the amiga pc ms dos apple macintosh playstation super nes game boy atari jaguar mega drive genesis and sega saturn with a version planned for release on the virtual boy although this was cancelled following the poor release of the console in japan . worms outsold fifa 96 and tomb raider topped the uk all formats video game chart and won several awards . team17 developed some of the console ports themselves the others were produced by east point software . logo used on all games from worms 3d to worms crazy golf since the release of worms the franchise has gone on to be very successful selling over 12 million units worldwide . this all platform success contributed towards team17 s decision to cease publishing amiga titles in 1997 as the platform had long been in a state of decline . they released worms the director s cut exclusively on the amiga as a swan song . team17 then focused on the pc market releasing titles such as nightlong union city conspiracy although this game was then adapted and released for the amiga by clickboom and addiction pinball although they also produced some console exclusive titles such as x2 . team17 has continued developing and porting worms games in the decades that followed . team17 developed not only their own titles during the 2000s but also wrote games for other publishers franchises . they made army men major malfunction in 2006 ported lemmings to the psp and created leisure suit larry box office bust in 2009 . during this period they were also short listed for the british developer of the year by the golden joystick awards . 5 in 2009 team17 returned to their own franchise with the launch of alien breed evolution . 6 team17 remains an independent game development studio with dozens of staff members . this makes it one of the longest surviving independent developers now into its 27th year . games edit miami chase 1990 alien breed 1991 cardiaxx 1991 full contact 1991 marbles 1991 alien breed special edition 1992 apidya 1992 assassin 1992 project x 1992 alien breed ii the horror continues 1993 body blows 1993 body blows galactic 1993 f17 challenge 1993 overdrive 1993 silverball 1993 superfrog 1993 qwak 1993 alien breed tower assault 1994 arcade pool 1994 super stardust 1994 ultimate body blows 1994 alien breed 3d 1995 arcade snooker 1995 atr all terrain racing 1995 kingpin arcade sports bowling 1995 worms 1995 alien breed 3d ii the killing grounds 1996 the speris legacy 1996 world rally fever 1996 x2 1997 worms 2 1997 worms the director s cut 1997 addiction pinball 1998 nightlong union city conspiracy 1998 the full wormage 1998 phoenix 1999 pinball madness 2 1999 worms armageddon 1999 onlineworms 2001 stunt gp 2001 worms world party 2001 worms blast 2002 worms 3d 2003 worms forts under siege 2004 worms golf 2004 worms 4 mayhem 2005 army men major malfunction 2006 lemmings 2006 worms open warfare 2006 worms 2007 worms open warfare 2 2007 worms a space oddity 2008 worms 2 armageddon 2009 leisure suit larry box office bust 2009 alien breed evolution 2010 alien breed 2 assault 2010 alien breed impact 2010 worms battle islands 2010 alien breed 3 descent 2011 worms crazy golf 2011 worms reloaded 2011 worms ultimate mayhem 2011 worms revolution 2012 superfrog hd 2013 worms 3 2013 worms clan wars 2013 flockers 2014 light 2014 worms battlegrounds 2014 the escapists 2014 beyond eyes 2015 worms w.m.d 2016 yooka laylee 2017 way to the woods tba cancelled games edit king of thieves an action game described as a pirate themed variation of alien breed . witchwood an action adventure game in the style of the legend of zelda or al qadim the genie s curse about a young hero s quest to destroy an evil witch . 7 8 worms battle rally an entry in the worms series that was in development from 2003 to 2004 . 9 allison road 2016 amiga power dispute edit during the 1990s team17 had a feud with gaming magazine amiga power . amiga power had a fairness policy of giving a 50 % score to an average game instead of 73 % to keep game producers happy 10 a practice the company saw as inherently wrong . team17 put several easter eggs in their games . for example typing amigapower into alien breed 2 would display a message criticising amiga power s review policy ; 11 computer players at the easiest difficulty setting in arcade pool f17 challenge and kingpin arcade sports bowling were named after amiga power staff members . 11 two of amiga power former writers stuart campbell and jonathan nash claim that a team17 staff member made allegations of bribery and corruption in french magazine amiga concept . 12 team17 refused to supply review copies of games to amiga power even demanding reviewers at its sister magazine amiga format sign declarations stating that they would not share their review copies with amiga power . 11 in response to amiga power reviews of kingpin and atr all terrain racing team17 filed a libel action demanding the magazine stop lying about their games . 13 references edit team17 about us . team17 . retrieved 6 may 2015 . amiga pd disks . amiga stuff.com . 2007 09 19 . retrieved 2016 03 16 . miami chase amiga game games download adf music . lemon amiga . 2004 07 19 . retrieved 2016 03 16 . team 7 team 17 english amiga board . eab.abime.net . retrieved 2016 03 16 . staff edge 2014 09 11 . edge magazine gamesradar . edge online.com . retrieved 2016 03 16 . exclusive all new alien breed confirmed commodore amiga sony playstation 3 nintendo wii microsoft xbox 360 . news.spong.com . retrieved 2016 03 16 . secret service magazine may 1995 . archive.org . retrieved 2016 03 16 . pc.games.n029 .1995.02 fl0n . archive.org . retrieved 2016 03 16 . https web.archive.org web 20141217141538 http www.unseen64.net 2010 12 17 worms battle rally ps2 xbox gamecube cancelled . archived from the original on december 17 2014 . retrieved november 17 2014 . missing or empty title help 1 dead link a b c 2 dead link 3 dead link 4 dead link external links edit official website team17 at mobygames v t e team17 alien breed alien breed alien breed ii the horror continues alien breed tower assault alien breed 3d alien breed 3d ii the killing grounds reboot alien breed evolution alien breed 2 assault alien breed 3 descent body blows body blows body blows galactic ultimate body blows worms 2d interface worms 1995 the director s cut worms 2 worms armageddon 1999 worms world party worms reloaded worms revolution worms clan wars worms w.m.d 3d interface worms 3d worms forts under siege worms 4 mayhem worms ultimate mayhem console exclusives worms open warfare worms 2007 worms open warfare 2 worms a space oddity worms 2 armageddon 2009 worms battle islands worms 3 worms battlegrounds spin offs addiction pinball onlineworms worms blast worms golf worms crazy golf worms collection other developed arcade pool arcade snooker army men major malfunction atr all terrain racing leisure suit larry box office bust lemmings nightlong union city conspiracy project x qwak stunt gp superfrog x2 published allison road cancelled apidya assassin beyond eyes cardiaxx the escapists silverball the speris legacy super stardust world rally fever yooka laylee authority control musicbrainz fea0bd4c bf47 4f39 92b9 b19cdb574ef1 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title team17 & oldid 739406185 categories companies based in wakefieldcompanies established in 1990team17video game companies of the united kingdomvideo game development companies1990 establishments in the united kingdomhidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from march 2016pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersofficial website different in wikidata and wikipediawikipedia articles with musicbrainz identifiers 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 catal e tinadeutschespa ol fran aisitalianopolskiportugu s suomi edit links this page was last modified on 14 september 2016 at 14 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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