Telecomsoft was the computer software division of British telecommunications company British Telecom (now BT). It was the owner of the well-known Firebird and Rainbird labels, under which it sold video games at a variety of price-points.
Telecomsoft was founded in 1984 when Ederyn Williams, the General Manager of British Telecom's Information Services division, proposed a forward-thinking software publishing strategy that would take advantage of ...
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Telecomsoft was the computer software division of British telecommunications company British Telecom (now BT). It was the owner of the well-known Firebird and Rainbird labels, under which it sold video games at a variety of price-points.
Telecomsoft was founded in 1984 when Ederyn Williams, the General Manager of British Telecom's Information Services division, proposed a forward-thinking software publishing strategy that would take advantage of future developments in the telecommunications industry. Computer games were the fastest growing sector within the computer software market at the time, thus Telecomsoft was set up specifically to publish games on a wide variety of 8-bit and 16-bit platforms.
Three publishing labels were initially established within Telecomsoft, each with its own specific marketing strategy, although some of them would later fragment to form a number of sub-labels. The Firebird label would be Telecomsoft's primary identity. Although initially set up to publish...
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