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The world's first thirty party software delveloper, American company '''Activision ''' have been in existence in one form or another since 1979 when ex-[[Atari]] programmers David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller and Bob Whitehead joined forces with former music industry executive Jim Levy in creating a new company that would give credit to the programmers for their work, a policy for which [[Atari]] had received a great deal of criticism from its employees over a prolonged period.
As well as under their own banner, Activision released a number of games under the '''Electric Dreams''' label a British subsidiary of the company who were tasked with the production of software suitable for the European market, with one eye firmly on what could also be sold in the United States.
Activision appointed former [[Argus Press Software|Quicksilva]] boss Rod Cousens to the post of managing director of '''Electric Dreams''' with complete control over their output and he was soon promoted to the head of all of Activision's UK based activities which consisted of arcade conversions, film tie-ins and orginal software.
A less successful off-shoot was '''Gamestar''' which made only five releases before being wound-up.
== Releases for CPC (Activision) ===== Activision ===
*[[Afterburner]]
*[[Altered Beast]]
*[[Time Scanner]]
*[[Wonder Boy]]
== Releases for CPC (= Electric Dreams) ===
*[[Aliens]]
*[[Aliens: US Edition]]
*[[Winter Sports]]
*[[Xarq]]
== Releases for CPC (= Gamestar) ===
*[[Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing]]
*[[Championship Baseball]]
