Quicksilva

Quicksilva was a British games software publisher active during the early 1980s.

Amongst the company's successes were Jeff Minter's Gridrunner (1983), Bugaboo (1983, aka La Pulga) and Fred (1983, titled "Roland on the Ropes" in the Amstrad version), two titles licensed from Spanish software house Indescomp S.A. Sandy White's Ant Attack (1983) and Zombie Zombie (1984) for the ZX Spectrum featured revolutionary 3-D graphics for which a patent application was made.

The company was most successful during 1983-1984, during which time it released a Star Raiders-style game entitled Time-Gate (1983) and the first official home computer conversion of Atari Games' Battlezone (1984). Also in 1984 they released Fantastic Voyage (an official licence from the 1966 film), The Snowman (an adaptation of the 1978 book), and The Thompson Twins Adventure (an adaptation of the Thompson Twins single, "Doctor! Doctor!").

In 1984 the company was bought by Argus Press Software which later became Grandslam Entertainment. Managing Director Rod Cousens and Software Manager Paul Cooper left to establish Electric Dreams Software.