U.S. Gold

U.S. Gold Limited
Former type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video games
Fate	Closed by parent
Founded	1984
Founder	Geoff Brown
Defunct	April 1996
Headquarters	Witton, Birmingham, England
Parent	CentreGold (1984–1996); Eidos Interactive (1996);

U.S. Gold Limited was a British video game publisher based in Witton, Birmingham, England. The company was founded in 1984 by Geoff Brown in parallel to his distributor firm, CentreSoft, both of which became part of Woodward Brown Holdings (later renamed CentreGold). The company primarily aimed at publishing games imported from the United States with a lower price tag in Europe and especially the United Kingdom.

By 1985, U.S. Gold projected a turnover of US$6 million for their first fiscal year, and expected to release further 150 games in the year to come.[1] In 1988, U.S. Gold received the Golden Joystick Award for "Software House of the Year".[2] The company also operated the budget range label Kixx.[3] In April 1996, Eidos Interactive acquired the entire CentreGold umbrella (including U.S. Gold) for GB£17.6 million,[4][5] as a result of which U.S. Gold and CentreSoft ceased all operations.

Games published

Title	Release date	Platform(s)
Beach Head	EU:1984	C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, BBC
Hurricanes	NA:1994 (SNES), EU:1994 (SNES,GEN)	Super NES, Sega Genesis
Infiltrator	EU:1986	C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum
Raid over Moscow	EU:1984	C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, BBC
Ace of Aces	1986	Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari 7800, Commodore 64, MSX, MS-DOS, Master System, ZX Spectrum
Beast Busters	1989 (Arcade), 1990 (Amiga, Atari ST)	Arcade, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game	1989-1992	Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, MS-DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, MSX, Genesis, Master System, NES, ZX Spectrum
Shadow Dancer	NA:1991, EU:1991 (ZX Spectrum & Amstrad CPC)	C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST
Techno Cop	NA:1988, NA:1989 (Amiga)	Apple II, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Amiga
The Incredible Hulk	NA: 1994 (SNES, GEN, MS), 1995 (GG), EU: 1994-1995
Putty	1992 (Amiga), 1993 (SNES), 1994 (Amiga CD32)	Amiga, Super NES, Amiga CD32

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References

Anderson, Chris (June 1985). "On top of the US Goldmine". Zzap!64. No. 2. Newsfield. pp. 46–48. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
Lacey, Eugene (May 1988). "Golden Joystick Awards 1988". Computer and Video Games. No. 79. Future Publishing. p. 39. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
Rob (December 2001). "Interview with an Ex-ACG (Ashby Computers & Graphics) Employee". www.retroisle.com. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
"EIDOS PROPOSES TO TAKE OVER CENTREGOLD". www.telecompaper.com. 29 March 1996. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
Moss, Richard (31 March 2015). ""It felt like robbery": Tomb Raider and the fall of Core Design". arstechnica.com. Retrieved 4 June 2017.

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[Zzap_02-1] Anderson, Chris (June 1985). "On top of the US Goldmine". Zzap!64. No. 2. Newsfield. pp. 46–48. Retrieved 5 June 2017.

[CVG_79-2] Lacey, Eugene (May 1988). "Golden Joystick Awards 1988". Computer and Video Games. No. 79. Future Publishing. p. 39. Retrieved 5 June 2017.

[Ex-ACG-3] Rob (December 2001). "Interview with an Ex-ACG (Ashby Computers & Graphics) Employee". www.retroisle.com. Retrieved 4 June 2017.

[Take_Over-4] "EIDOS PROPOSES TO TAKE OVER CENTREGOLD". www.telecompaper.com. 29 March 1996. Retrieved 4 June 2017.

[Robbery-5] Moss, Richard (31 March 2015). ""It felt like robbery": Tomb Raider and the fall of Core Design". arstechnica.com. Retrieved 4 June 2017.