Personal Software Services
452 Stoney Stantion Road
Coventry CV6 5DG,
United Kingdom

Year Founded: 1981
Year Defunct: 1987


Personal Software Services (PSS) was a British software company based in Coventry, founded by Gary Mays and Richard Cockayne in 1981. The company was acquired by Mirrorsoft in 1987.

PSS produced games for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, IBM PC and other popular platforms in the 1980s and 1990s.

Several games produced by the French company ERE Informatique were distributed in Britain by PSS, notably Get Dexter.

They were especially noted for their strategic wargames, such as Theatre Europe and Falklands '82.


Games released

Blade Alley, 1983
The Guardian, 1983
Light Cycle, 1983
Deep Space, 1984
Frank 'n' Stein, 1984
Les Flics, 1984
Maxima (MSX), 1984
Xavior, 1984
The Battle For Midway, 1985
The Covenant, 1985
Iwo Jima, 1986
Macadam Bumper, 1985
Swords and Sorcery, 1985
Annals of Rome, 1986
Falklands '82, 1986
Get Dexter, 1986
Theatre Europe, 1986
Battle of Britain, 1987
Battlefield Germany, 1987
Bismarck, 1987
Legend of The Sword, 1987
Sorcerer Lord, 1987
Tobruk, 1987
Austerlitz, 1988
Firezone, 1988
Pegasus Bridge, 1988
Final Frontier, 1989
Waterloo, 1989
Champion of The Raj, 1990
The Final Battle, 1990
Battle Master, 1990
J. R. R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan, 1991