Editing Imagine Software (section)

===Founding and early success===
Imagine Software was founded in 1982 by former members of [[Bug-Byte]] Mark Butler and David Lawson. Butler and programmer Eugene Evans had previously worked at Microdigital, one of the first computer stores in the UK.<ref name='bbc_crash' /> The owner of Microdigital, Bruce Everiss, was invited to join the company to run the company day-to-day and run the PR department.<ref>{{Cite web |author=<!-- Staff writer (s); no by-line --> |title=Bruce Everiss |url=https://www.retrogamer.net/profiles/developer/bruce-everiss/ |date=2014-08-22 |access-date=2021-09-02 |website=Retro Gamer |publisher=Future Publishing}}</ref> Imagine Software produced several very successful games, including ''[[Arcadia (video game)|Arcadia]]''<ref name='bbc_crash' /> for the [[Vic 20]] and [[ZX Spectrum]], throughout 1982 and 1983, but some games shipped with serious, game-breaking bugs. The company grew in size through this period, at one point employing upwards of 80 people, a large number for its time, and splashed out large sums of money on company cars and the founding of a racing team to race in the Isle of Man TT race.<ref>{{Cite web|title=» imagine The Digital Antiquarian|url=https://www.filfre.net/tag/imagine/|access-date=2020-10-09|language=en-US}}</ref>