Ultimate Play The Game (often shortened to just Ultimate) was a critically acclaimed video game developer of the early home computer era. "Ultimate Play The Game" was the trading name of Ashby Computers & Graphics Ltd. (ACG), a software company founded in 1982 by two ex-arcade game developers Tim and Chris Stamper. Ultimate released a series of successful games for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, MSX and Commodore 64 computers from 1982 until its closure in 1988.

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  • Ultimate Play The Game (often shortened to just Ultimate) was a critically acclaimed video game developer of the early home computer era. "Ultimate Play The Game" was the trading name of Ashby Computers & Graphics Ltd. (ACG), a software company founded in 1982 by two ex-arcade game developers Tim and Chris Stamper. Ultimate released a series of successful games for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, MSX and Commodore 64 computers from 1982 until its closure in 1988. Ultimate are perhaps best remembered for the big-selling titles Jetpac and Sabre Wulf, each of which sold over 300,000 copies in 1983 and 1984 respectively, and their groundbreaking series of isometric arcade adventures utilising a technique termed Filmation. Knight Lore, the first of the Filmation games, has been retrospectively described in the press as "seminal ... revolutionary", "one of the most successful and influential games of all time", and "the greatest single advance in the history of computer games". By the time of the label's last use in 1988 on a retrospective compilation, Ultimate had evolved into Rare, and moved on to developing titles for Nintendo consoles. Rare was purchased by Microsoft in 2002 for US$377m, a record price for a video game developer, and now develops exclusively for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console. In 2006 Rare revived the Ultimate Play The Game name for an Xbox 360 Live Arcade remake of Jetpac named Jetpac Refuelled.
  • Ultimate Play The Game (občas zkracované jen na Ultimate) byla společnost vyvíjející počítačové hry a videohry v rané éře domácích počítačů, ve skutečnosti to byl obchodní název softwarové firmy Ashby Computers & Graphics Ltd. (ACG), kterou založili v roce 1982 bratři Tim a Chris Stamperové, bývalí vývojáři her pro herní automaty. Ultimate vytvořila mnoho úspěšných herních titulů pro Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, MSX a Commodore 64. Společnost ukončila činnost v roce 1987, obchodní známku odkoupila firma U.S. Gold a Tom s Chrisem založili firmu Rare, která vyrábí hry pro herní konzole. Firma je známá neobvyklým množstvím původních hitů, které ve své historii vyrobila. V českém časopise zachytil éru her pro ZX Spectrum František Fuka článkem Ultimate a její tři revoluce.
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  • Ultimate Play The Game (often shortened to just Ultimate) was a critically acclaimed video game developer of the early home computer era. "Ultimate Play The Game" was the trading name of Ashby Computers & Graphics Ltd. (ACG), a software company founded in 1982 by two ex-arcade game developers Tim and Chris Stamper. Ultimate released a series of successful games for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, MSX and Commodore 64 computers from 1982 until its closure in 1988.
  • Ultimate Play The Game (občas zkracované jen na Ultimate) byla společnost vyvíjející počítačové hry a videohry v rané éře domácích počítačů, ve skutečnosti to byl obchodní název softwarové firmy Ashby Computers & Graphics Ltd. (ACG), kterou založili v roce 1982 bratři Tim a Chris Stamperové, bývalí vývojáři her pro herní automaty. Ultimate vytvořila mnoho úspěšných herních titulů pro Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, MSX a Commodore 64.
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