this debt (though by this time its total debts ran to hundreds of thousands of pounds). Legacy Former programmers went on to establish Psygnosis and Denton Designs. The company's back catalogue was owned by Beau Jolly, who in turn later sold those rights to Subvert, while rights to the Imagine label were acquired by Ocean Software, which primarily used it to publish home computer conversions of popular arcade games. In other media The Black Mirror interactive film Bandersnatch, released in 2018, alludes to Imagine Software and the failed work to produce Bandersnatch. The film starts on 9 July 1984, the date of Imagine's closure, and includes a shot of the cover of Crash reporting on the closure. Within the film, the fictional software company Tuckersoft, which had developed both Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum games, places its financial future on the attempt to produce Bandersnatch, and in some scenarios falls into bankruptcy after the game fails to appear. Megagames Imagine had intended to develop six so-called "Megagames", the most well-known of which were Psyclapse and Bandersnatch. These games were designed to push the boundaries of the hardware of the time, even to the extent that they were intended to be released with a hardware add-on which would have increased the capabilities of the computer, as well as guarding against piracy. The games were advertised heavily and would have retailed at around £30 – an expensive price tag when the average price of a game at the time was £7.20 – but Imagine's collapse meant that they remained vaporware and never saw the light of day. During the BBC documentary it was revealed that Psyclapse was little more than a paper sketch, though the name was later used for a sub-label of Psygnosis. Most of the concepts originally intended for Bandersnatch eventually appeared in another Psygnosis game, Brataccas, for the 16-bit Atari ST, Amiga and Macintosh computers. Games Arcadia, 1982 Wacky Waiters, 1982 Frantic, 1982 Catcha Snatcha, 1983 Schizoids, 1983 Ah Diddums, 1983 Molar Maul, 1983 Jumping Jack aka Leggit!, 1983 Zip Zap, 1983 Zzoom, 1983 Bewitched, 1983 Stonkers, 1983 Alchemist, 1983 Pedro, 1984 Cosmic Cruiser, 1984 BC Bill, 1984 References External links The Bubble Bursts - article from CRASH documenting the fall of Imagine Software Imagine Software profile on MobyGames Defunct companies based in Liverpool Video game companies established in 1982 Video game companies disestablished in 1984 Defunct video game