Flair Software

Founded in 1990-06-05 closed in 2002-01-22
Status: dead
Country: U.K.

2.4

per year

aka(s): Microvalue, Microvalue-Flair

Flair Software was a software developer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the North East of England. It was incorporated on 5th June 1990. They have developed software on most console platforms as well as for the PC and continue to produce top quality software on the cutting edge of techology. They have been developing and publishing their own computer games and sometimes involving external publishers such as the industry's giants like Konami and EA.

They were approached by EA with their top selling Rugby Union game on the Megadrive, and asked to convert the game to Rugby League for sale in Australia. This was obviously a major task, as the difference between the two sports codes is considerable. The result was Australian Rugby League. The project was completed on a very tight time scale and released to rave reviews, selling out in most Australian stores. It spent considerable time at number one.

Konami, having seen their excellent track record, were taken by one of their products on the SNES, an isometric puzzler called Whizz, and were very interested in having a Playstation and a Saturn version coded. Whizz had enjoyed a long and successful life on the Amiga, the PC and the SNES and Konami believed it could continue to do so on the Playstation and the Saturn.

While coding on the industry's cutting edge hardware, Microvalue has also continued to produce a constant stream of classic PC titles. These games have encompassed all different genres, from arcade shoot 'em ups, to realistic sport sims, driving games and absorbing adventures.

They currently enjoy a very strong relationship with many top software development teams and publishing houses all over England and especially in Europe. Their latest range of software, developed over the past 2 years is primarily made up of 3D titles. After being aproached by American company Valu-Soft in 1998 to produce a range of 3D hunting titles, they have produced a steady stream of such 3D titles ever since. Since September 1998, they have produced over eight full 3D games, utilising various 3D engines, along with several other non 3D titles.

The company dissolved on 22nd January 2002.

Releases per year

1986	3
1987	9
1988	4
1989	3
1990	3
1991	10
1992	12
1993	16
1994	7
1995	5
1996	2
1997	1

2013	3
2014	1

79 video games with valid date were considered (88.7%)

Overall rankings

	2
	22
	16
	4
	2

Common gametypes

Top platforms

Amiga		22
MS-DOS		17
Atari ST		13
C64		13
Amiga CD32		7
Amiga AGA		6
3DS		4
Atari 400/800		2
Amstrad PCW		2
Amstrad CPC		1
SNES		1
Windows		1

Flair Software best rated games

Oscar	1993	dos
Trolls	1992	dos
Trolls	1993	aga
Explora III: Sous le Signe du Serpent	1989	ocs
Trolls	1992	ocs
Oscar	1993	ocs
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show	1989	ocs
Elvira: The Arcade Game	1991	ocs
Explora III: Sous le Signe du Serpent	1989	st
1869: History Experience Part I	1992	ocs

Flair Software worst games

Soccer Superstars	1995	ocs
Dangerous Streets	1993	cd32
Dangerous Streets	1993	aga
Whizz	1995	aga
Euro Soccer	1992	ocs