U.S. Gold

U.S. Gold Limited

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Video game industry
Founded	1984 (1984)
Founder	Geoff Brown
Defunct	April 1996 (1996-04)
Fate	Closed by parent
Headquarters	Witton , England
Parent	CentreGold (1984–1996) Eidos Interactive (1996)

U.S. Gold Limited was a British video game publisher based in Witton, England. The company was founded in 1984 by Geoff Brown in parallel to his distributor firm, CentreSoft, both of which became part of Woodward Brown Holdings (later renamed CentreGold). The company primarily aimed at publishing games imported from the United States with a lower price tag in Europe and especially the United Kingdom.

By 1985, U.S. Gold projected a turnover of US$6 million for their first fiscal year, and expected to release further 150 games in the year to come. In 1988, U.S. Gold received the Golden Joystick Award for "Software House of the Year". The company also operated the budget range label Kixx. In April 1996, Eidos Interactive acquired the entire CentreGold umbrella (including U.S. Gold) for £17.6 million, as a result of which U.S. Gold and CentreSoft ceased all operations.

Games published

Title	Release date	Platform(s)
Beach Head	EU:1984	C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, BBC
Hurricanes	NA:1994 (SNES), EU:1994 (SNES,GEN)	Super NES, Sega Genesis
Infiltrator	EU:1986	C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum
Raid over Moscow	EU:1984	C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, BBC
Shadow Dancer	NA:1991, EU:1991 (ZX Spectrum & Amstrad CPC)	C64, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST
Techno Cop	NA:1988, NA:1989 (Amiga)	Apple II, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Amiga