IFORMATION FROM WIKIPEDIA 2017:

Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.

The company was founded by brothers Mike and Tim Mahony and their father J.R. Mahony in 1983.
They produced games for a number of home computers including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum and Dragon 32. The company published many of Tony Crowther's early Commodore 64 games, including Aztec Tomb, Blagger and Loco.

The company also published budget priced software under the Budgie label.

Tim Mahony took over the day-to-day running of the company in 1987 and closed the company nine months later. The name and back catalogue were sold to Superior Software.

Two titles were released under the joint Superior/Alligata label for ports of Superior's BBC/Electron games to other systems.
Superior also included some old Alligata games on their Play It Again Sam compilations.


Notable games

1983 Aztec Tomb (C64)
1983 Here Comes The Sun (ZX Spectrum)
1983 Bug Blaster (C64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron)
1983 Lunar Rescue (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron)
1983 Blagger (C64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, MSX, Commodore 16) A version was also released through Amsoft for the Amstrad CPC
1984 Loco (C64, ZX Spectrum, Atari 8-bit)
1984 Son of Blagger (C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro)
1985 Who Dares Wins (C64)
1985 Jack Charlton's Match Fishing (C64, ZX Spectrum)
1985 Blagger Goes to Hollywood (C64)
1986 Who Dares Wins II (C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, MSX, Amstrad CPC)
1986 Night World (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron)
1987 Kettle (C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC)
1987 Livingstone, I Presume (C64, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Amstrad CPC) UK release of Spanish Opera Soft game Livingstone, Supongo
1987 Addicta Ball (C64, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST) An unreleased version was developed for the ZX Spectrum
1988 By Fair Means or Foul (C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC) A Superior/Alligata release
1989 Repton Mania (ZX Spectrum) Ports of the first 2 Repton games - A Superior/Alligata release

That's the WIKI definition of Alligata. Here's mine (HBHZTH) or at least my stab at documenting the story behind the name Alligata.

It started all with a local Hi-Fi shop in Sheffield called Superior Systems, which in the early 80s had started to sell computers in their store. A local lad called Tony Crowther was working there on the floor and the management soon took notice in his thirst for knowledge of early Commodore computers (PET/VIC20). They gave him a free C64 to start work on, which was smart as it was a brand new and powerful home computer with very little software written for it. He soon had developed a full game (based on a SEGA arcade game) and his first title, LOCO, was ready for the newly founded computer software company called ALLIGATA (originally Superior Systems). The company name Superior Systems is mentioned in the first releases from Alligata.

One of Tony Crowther’s early games for Alligata Software. Aztec Adventure was completely written in BASIC using the Commodore 64’s built-in graphical character set to generate the location pictures.