Bug-Byte Ltd. was a video game company founded in 1980 in Liverpool, initially producing software for the Acorn Atom and ZX80. Bug-Byte's first hit was Don Priestley's Mazogs which was one of the most successful titles for the ZX81. In 1983, it published Manic Miner, considered to be one of the most influential platform games of all time.[2] The company went into liquidation in 1985 but their name and logo were purchased by Argus Press PLC for use as a budget software label.
Formation
Bug-Byte was founded by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates.[3] In 1981 they paid £75 for The Damsel and the Beast for the ZX81, the first game produced by Don Priestley, a former teacher who had learned programming from a night school course.[4][5]