Alligata
Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.
The company was founded by brothers Mike and Tim Mahony and their father J.R. Mahony in 1983. They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum and Dragon 32. The company published many of Tony Crowther's early Commodore 64 games, including Aztec Tomb, Blagger and Loco. Chris Butler was another programmer whose earlier games were released by Alligata. The company also published budget priced software under the Budgie label.
Tim Mahony took over the day-to-day running of the company in 1987 and closed the company nine months later. The name and back catalogue were sold to Superior Software. Two titles were released under the joint Superior/Alligata label for ports of Superior's BBC/Electron games to other systems. Superior also included some old Alligata games on their Play It Again Sam compilations.
Games
- 1983 Aztec Tomb
- 1983 Here Comes The Sun
- 1983 Bug Blaster
- 1983 Lunar Rescue
- 1983 Blagger A version was also released through Amsoft for the Amstrad CPC
- 1984 Loco
- 1984 Son of Blagger
- 1985 Who Dares Wins
- 1985 Jack Charlton's Match Fishing
- 1985 Blagger Goes to Hollywood
- 1986 Who Dares Wins II
- 1986 Night World
- 1987 Kettle
- 1987 Livingstone, I Presume? UK release of Spanish Opera Soft game Livingstone, Supongo
- 1987 Addicta Ball
- 1988 By Fair Means or Foul A Superior/Alligata release
- 1989 Repton Mania Ports of the first 2 Repton games - A Superior/Alligata release
Budgie label