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{{Unreferenced|date=September 2009}} {{Infobox company | name = Ariolasoft GmbH | logo = Ariolasoft.jpg | type = [[Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung|GmbH]] (subsidiary of [[Ariola Records]]) | fate = Acquired by [[MicroProse]] Germany | predecessor = | successor = United Software | foundation = | founder = | defunct = {{End date|1993}} | location_city = | location_country = | location = [[Germany]] | area_served = [[Europe]] | key_people = | industry = [[Video game industry|Computer game industry]] | products = [[Personal computer game|Computer game]]s | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | assets = | equity = | owner = | num_employees = | subsid = Ariolasoft UK | homepage = | footnotes = | intl = yes }} '''Ariolasoft GmbH''', later known as '''United Software''', was a [[Germany|German]] [[video game developer|computer game developer]], [[video game publisher|publisher]] and distributor. It started as the software subsidiary of [[Ariola Records]]. Ariolasoft also had a [[United Kingdom|British]] subsidiary, Ariolasoft UK, which was run by Ashley Gray (later replaced by Willie Carminke) and Frank Brunger. The company released approximately ten games for the [[ZX Spectrum]], [[Commodore 64]], and [[Amiga]] systems, and numerous titles for the [[Atari 8-bit]]. It was also the German publisher for [[Activision]] games developed for the [[Atari 2600]], and the European publisher for [[Electronic Arts]] and [[Brøderbund]] games, before those companies set up their own European offices. Ariolasoft also developed the [[compact audio cassette|cassette]] ports of those titles, and also developed original games. In addition to software activities, they were also the German distributor of the [[Sega Master System]] between approximately 1987 and 1988. In 1990, the company was renamed United Software, which in 1993 was taken over by [[MicroProse]] Germany. ==Original games== *''[[Deactivators]]'' *''[[Golf Construction Set]]'' *''[[Challenge of the Gobots]]'' *''[[Richard Petty's Talladega]]'' *''[[Starfox]]'' *''[[They Stole A Million|They Stole a Million]]'' ==External links== *[http://www.mobygames.com/company/ariolasoft-gmbh Ariolasoft profile] at [[MobyGames]] *{{WoS pub|id=^Ariolasoft+UK+Ltd$}} [[Category:Companies disestablished in 1993]] [[Category:Defunct video game companies]] [[Category:German video game companies]] [[Category:Video game developers]] [[Category:Video game publishers]] {{European-videogame-company-stub}} {{Germany-company-stub}} [[de:Ariolasoft]]
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