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The Bitmap Brothers
Industry
Video games
Founded
1987
Headquarters
Wapping, United Kingdom
Key people
Mike Montgomery, MD Eric Matthews Steve Kelly Mark Coleman Dan Malone Ed Bartlett John Phillips Jamie Barber John Kershaw Steve Cargill
Products
Xenon series Speedball series The Chaos Engine series
Website
bitmap-brothers.co.uk (archived)
The Bitmap Brothers are a British video game developer founded in 1987.[1] The company entered the video game industry in 1988 with the scrolling shooter Xenon. They quickly followed with Speedball. Prior to becoming the publisher of their own games (under Renegade Software), early Bitmap Brothers titles were distributed by Image Works and Konami.
The Bitmap Brothers released several games on the Amiga and Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes[2] and DOS, and were one of the most successful companies on those platforms. They became known in particular for releasing games from a variety of different genres that usually came to be regarded as leaders in their respective fields. Their PC games have never matched the sales of their previous Amiga titles, despite garnering positive critical reviews in the press.
They publicized themselves as rock stars, and were featured in the press posing in dark glasses standing next to the helicopter of Robert Maxwell, the owner of Mirrorsoft, the publisher of a number of their games.
After 2002, the company also released ports of several of their games for both the Game Boy Advance and Pocket PC platforms, and since then they have been licensing their old games and properties to several other companies interested in attempting re-releases for modern platforms.
TheBitmapBrothers are a British video game developer founded in 1987. The company entered the video game industry in 1988 with the scrolling shooter...
developed by theBitmapBrothers and published by Renegade in October 1991. It was released for the Atari ST, Amiga, Acorn Archimedes, and MS-DOS. The title...
The Chaos Engine is a top-down run and gun video game developed by TheBitmapBrothers and published by Renegade Software in March 1993. The game is set...
steampunk age. Developed by theBitmapBrothers, it was first released on the Amiga in 1993; a sequel was released in 1996. The graphic adventure puzzle...
acquired TheBitmapBrothers' library of classic games in 2019. In 2020 Rebellion acquired Whitaker's Almanack, publishing an edition in the following...
for the quality of its programming, it mostly created 3D action or puzzle games. Xenon 2 Megablast (coded by The Assembly Line, designed by theBitmap Brothers)...
The Chaos Engine 2 is a top-down shooter video game, and sequel to The Chaos Engine, released for the Amiga in 1996 and developed by TheBitmap Brothers...
by theBitmapBrothers. Initially, theBitmapBrothers used the new label to publish their own games, after they had become dissatisfied with the practices...
Stainless Games Sumo Digital Superior Software System 3 Team17 TheBitmapBrothersThe Chinese Room Two Point Studios Ubisoft (UK studios) Ubisoft Leamington...
The Golden Joystick Award for Game of the Year is an award presented annually at the Golden Joystick Awards ceremony, which has its winners voted in by...
Tournament is a sequel to the Amiga futuristic sports video game Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe originally created by TheBitmapBrothers. It was developed by...
composer writing for CD-i games in The Netherlands from 1991-92. He spent three years working in London for theBitmapBrothers on sound design and music composition...
"The Golden Joystick Awards '91". Computer and Video Games (115). EMAP: 10. June 1991. "Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe". bitmap-brothers.co.uk. Bitmap Brothers...
a remix of the song "Crazy" by Seal. TheBitmapBrothers cooperated with Tim Simenon to include the 1988 Bomb the Bass hip hop track "Megablast (Hip Hop...
became the European publisher for all the titles developed by TheBitmapBrothers, starting with their second game Speedball, until TheBitmapBrothers founded...
dance chart in the United States. One year later, the song was used as the title tune for Magic Pockets video game by theBitmapBrothers. Boomania, her...
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