Holmes subsequently became the European product manager for Eidos Interactive before founding several other video game companies, such as IncaGold, Play Sunshine, and Lolly. It was survived by its German office, which published Colony Wars 2492 from Digital X-citement and Five-A-Side Soccer before closing as well later in 1996. Kompart realised this in 1995 and consequently decided to close Black Legend, which happened the following year. ![]() However, by this time, publishers had started moving on from Amiga systems to more relevant systems like the PlayStation eventually, the Amiga 4000T was the last Amiga model to be released. This office received Black Legend games in shipments from the England headquarters, localised them, and distributed them in Germany. In 1994, Black Legend relocated from St Albans to Welwyn and opened a regional office in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, with staff formerly of developer Blue Byte. īy the holiday season of 1993, Black Legend had published four games: Fatman: The Caped Consumer, developed by Hungarian studio I/O Product for Amiga and MS-DOS Moscow Nights, a collection of Russian-based games for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows Hyperion, a low-budget Amiga game developed by Norwegian team Offence Software and Hungary for Fun, a compilation of games including Kid Pool, Logic, and Zarcan. With Kompart serving distribution, marketing, and public relations, Black Legend could focus solely on the publishing aspect. Through this move, Black Legend became co-located with Kompart in St Albans, England. By August 1993, Black Legend had become a part of Kompart, with Holmes, Bailey and Duncan Lowthian (Bailey's business partner) acting as both companies' joint directors. Bailey visited the Black Legend offices and the two companies subsequently struck a partnership. Not long into the company's lifetime, Holmes came in contact with Steven Bailey of the British game distribution company Kompart. Black Legend worked with external developers, mostly small studios with just a handful of people and teams based in ex- Soviet Union countries. The company targeted the games market for Amiga systems, which was largely neglected at the time, while also working on some games for personal computers. Holmes, at the time 20 years old and residing in Switzerland. Following a stark decline of the Amiga games market in 1994, Black Legend shut down in 1996, followed by its German office in Mülheim an der Ruhr later that year.īlack Legend was founded in 1992 by Richard M. Black Legend found success working with smaller developers, often from ex- Soviet Union countries. Master tactical combat and the art of 17th century alchemy to liberate a. Holmes, it moved to Hertfordshire ( St Albans, then Welwyn), England, the following year when it became part of distribution company Kompart. Black Legend is a dark turn-based strategy game combined with free level exploration set in a 17th century fantasy world. ![]() Founded in Switzerland in 1992 by Richard M. Black Legend was a British video game publisher predominantly active in the Amiga games market.
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