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Abbex Electronics was a video games developer.

Company history
Abbex was founded by Mark Nunan and Martin Ford in 1982 at Middlesex University (then called Middlesex Polytechnic). The company launched after licensing Cosmos, a game written for the ZX81 by Costa Panayi and converted to the ZX Spectrum.

The company released other games like All or Nothing and Spookyman. The games sold well, enabling them to move to offices in Bedford.

The company was approached by Amstrad and VTech to write games for the release of their respective platforms (the Amstrad CPC and the VTech Laser 200). They chose VTech and wrote 8 games for the Laser 200, with 30 more planned. A version of BASIC for Laser was planned and a forth package. Software for the Comx-35 and the Newbrain were also in development.

The Laser 200 games were never released in the UK. Sales of the Laser 200 were disappointing and Abbex went into receivership, unable to recover from the financial loss.

List of Games
A conversion of Krakatoa for the Commodore 64 titled Krakatoa 64 was announced in 1984.

After the company folded, Krakatoa and All Or Nothing were re-released by Prism Leisure Corporation.