U.S. Gold Limited was a British video game publisher based in Witton, Birmingham, England. The company was founded in 1984 by Anne and Geoff Brown in parallel to their 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.
History
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.[2] In 1987, they launched GO! label with Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper being the first game released under the label.[3] In 1988, U.S. Gold received the Golden Joystick Award for "Software House of the Year".[4] The company also operated the budget range label Kixx.[5]