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'''Beau Jolly ''' were formed in 1984 as a software house that specialised in obtaining the rights to other publisher's games when they were deemed of no further commercial worth.
Their remit was to collect as many of these licences and re-distribute them in the form of compilations, mirroring the record industry which had at that time begun to expand their back catalogue promotions.
The first major acquistion came following the collapse of the original [[Ocean|Imagine Software]] when Beau Jolly stepped in and picked up the rights to a number of their games. From this, their business model snowballed by picking up games from smaller publishers such as [[Realtime Games]], [[PSS]] & [[Anirog]].
After a few smaller releases of their ex-[[Imagine]] stock on the [[C64 ]] and [[ZX Spectrum]], Beau Jolly launched their first major release, in a blizzard of an advertising campaign, [[10 Computer Hits]] on a number of formats, including the CPC. The series eventually ran to five releases over the following three years.
Interestingly, the titles on their compilations often varied from format to format depending on what was and was not available.
