Editing Imagine Software (section)

{{Short description|Former British video games developer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Imagine Software
| logo = Imagine.jpeg
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| fate = Bankrupt
| predecessor = 
| successor = {{Unbulleted list|Beau Jolly|[[Ocean Software]]|[[Psygnosis Limited]]}}
| foundation = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1982|9|17}}
| founders = {{Unbulleted list|Mark Butler|David Lawson}}
| defunct = {{End date and age|df=yes|1984|7|9}}<ref name=PCW19Jul84>{{cite news| title=Imagine in hands of receiver| date=19 July 1984| url=http://www.zxsoftware.co.uk/8bitgamer/?cat=39| work=[[Popular Computing Weekly]]| access-date=17 December 2008| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028125837/http://www.zxsoftware.co.uk/8bitgamer/?cat=39| archive-date=28 October 2008}}</ref>
| location_city = [[Merseyside]]
| location_country = [[United Kingdom]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/company/imagine/trivia|title=Trivia for Imagine|access-date=4 May 2018|archive-date=11 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711092732/https://www.mobygames.com/company/imagine/trivia|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| area_served = United Kingdom
| key_people = {{Unbulleted list|Ian Hetherington|David Lawson|Mark Butler|Bruce Everiss}}
| industry = [[Video game industry|Video games]]
| products = [[Personal computer game|Computer games]]
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| num_employees = 80<ref name=PCW5Jul84>{{cite news| title=Bitter split breaks Imagine| date=5 July 1984| url=http://www.zxsoftware.co.uk/8bitgamer/?p=50| work=[[Popular Computing Weekly]]| access-date=17 December 2008| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717100651/http://www.zxsoftware.co.uk/8bitgamer/?p=50| archive-date=17 July 2011}}</ref>
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'''Imagine Software''' was a British [[video games developer]] based in [[Liverpool]] which existed briefly in the early 1980s, initially producing software for the [[ZX Spectrum]] and [[VIC-20]]. The company rose quickly to prominence and was noted for its polished, high-budget approach to packaging and advertising (at a time when this was not commonplace in the British software industry), as well as its self-promotion and ambition.

Following Imagine's high-profile demise under mounting debts in 1984, the name was bought and used as a label by [[Ocean Software]] until the late 1980s.