Zigurat (company)

{{Short description|Spanish video game development company}}

{{Verification|date=November 2022}}

{{Verification|date=November 2022}}

'''Zigurat''' was a Spanish software house for 8-bit [[home computer]]s very popular in the eighties. Its origin is in the company Made in [[Spain]], founded in 1983, which would know massive success in Spain with ''Fred'', commercialized in the United Kingdom as ''Roland on the Ropes'' (only the [[Amstrad CPC]] version). When the programmers and owners of Made in Spain could not go on alone on the task of distribution, they decided to create in 1986 another company, Zigurat, which would be entirely dedicated to distribution, and would distribute all the titles by Made in Spain, which became an internal producer seal under Zigurat. They would also distribute games by independent programmers or companies and would allow Made in Spain to concretate solely on programming. Later on, Made in Spain would completely merge into Zigurat, creating a single producer and distributor company. When the 8-bit market disappeared, the company turned to develop games for [[arcade machine]]s.[http://www.amstrad.es/lamaquina/companias/zigurat.html Made in Spain-Zigurat] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222041733/http://www.amstrad.es/lamaquina/companias/zigurat.html |date=February 22, 2008}} at amstrad.es (in Spanish)

'''Zigurat''' was a Spanish software house for 8-bit [[home computer]]s very popular in the eighties. Its origin is in the company Made in [[Spain]], founded in 1983, which would know massive success in Spain with ''Fred'', commercialized in the United Kingdom as ''Roland on the Ropes'' (only the [[Amstrad CPC]] version). When the programmers and owners of Made in Spain could not go on alone on the task of distribution, they decided to create in 1986 another company, Zigurat, which would be entirely dedicated to distribution, and would distribute all the titles by Made in Spain, which became an internal producer seal under Zigurat. They would also distribute games by independent programmers or companies and would allow Made in Spain to concretate solely on programming. Later on, Made in Spain would completely merge into Zigurat, creating a single producer and distributor company. When the 8-bit market disappeared, the company turned to develop games for [[arcade machine]]s.[http://www.amstrad.es/lamaquina/companias/zigurat.html Made in Spain-Zigurat] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222041733/http://www.amstrad.es/lamaquina/companias/zigurat.html |date=February 22, 2008}} at amstrad.es (in Spanish)