History
The company was established in 1984 as Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd by Ian Stewart. In 1994, it was renamed as Gremlin Interactive. Gremlin's early success was based on games such as Wanted: Monty Mole for the ZX Spectrum and Thing on a Spring for the Commodore 64. Like many software houses established in the eighties their primary market was the 8-bit range of computers such as the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64.
Gremlin scored big with the Zool and Premier Manager series in the early 1990s, and then with Actua Soccer, the first football game in full 3D, while having success with other games such as the Lotus racing series, a futuristic racing game Motorhead, a stunt car racing game Fatal racing (1995) or a 1998 flight simulator Hardwar. Following EA's success with the EA Sports brand, Gremlin also released their own sports videogame series, adding Golf, Tennis and Ice Hockey to their Actua Sports series.
In 1996, Gremlin acquired DMA Design (creators of Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings).
In 1999, they themselves were bought by Infogrames and renamed "Infogrames Sheffield House", for a reported fee of around £21m, but the studio closed in 2003. The building they occupied has since been demolished when Infogrames Sheffield House was supposed to be renamed "Atari Sheffield House".
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