@@itsaPIXELthing ah yeah. It's been a cool ride man. Psygnosis was a legendary company and gave me not just a chance, but a career. I got to learn from, and work with, some amazing people over the years and I'm eternally grateful for that. Seeing videos like this reminds me of the journey I've been on. From testing Tetrapods on my school holidays to co-creating wipeout, to journey with Curly Monsters, then back for Formula 1, then off to other ventures and then setting up Playrise and doing Table Top Racing, to Starlightganes and back working with a colleague of 30 years in Gaz Nichols. It's been a wonderful journey and I hope it continues to be as varied and crazy as it's always been. Your video has reminded me of my journey....that list of games at the end just scrolling past the screen was just a major flashback. Thank you for making the video. It's wonderful stuff to relive in a tiny loving way. So many wonderful people on the way. All legends
I worked at the Stroud studio, which we established having left Microprose. I worked on G-Police (I also designed the main police "helicopter") and Overboard to name a couple. The best times, ever! Thank you making this video, it made me happy 😊
@@itsaPIXELthing don't mention it! Thank you for the video and the work you put into it 🙏 oh, if you want to see a bit of G-Police etc then head over to designbytheo.com Not a lot there but better than nothing! :) we didn't have USBs back in the day for backups haha
These were great days! Both my uncles were involved in the 80s gaming industry and the younger one was an artist for Psygnosis. I was a youngster who got see and play with so many games-in-progress at the time.
Fair play man superb video and content. Psygnosis were my goto game devs during my childhood on the Amiga. I still remember the chills when watching opening sequence on SOTB2 - Good memories of games from an amazing game dev company.
F1 and Wipeout are still so fresh in my memory like in 1997 when I got my Ps1, crazy how could they get rid of London Studios with such amazing gaming pedigree, amazing vídeo, the standards are even higher every time you accomplish a documentary like this! Congratulations my friend!!! Cheers!!!
This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen! The ONLY thing I knew was Shadow of the Beast on Sega Genesis, so the entire film was educational and fun! Awesome work!
This company was one of the best for Amiga in its golden age. Its intros were fantastic with impressive graphics although its playability was not always good and its difficulty was very high. Great video. Congratulations.
Thank you so much for those words, Wayne! :) Glad you enjoyed it! Such a pleasure! Feel free to watch my other related videos, if you haven't already ;) I have similar videos for The Bitmap Brothers, Sierra On-Line, Timex Computers, Dinamic Software, Ocean Software, Lucasfilm / LucasArts, etc ;)
Without a doubt, Psygnosis was one of the most influential videogame developers/publishers ever! It's a real pity what Sony did to them. I still have a few classics to try out, but that Agony game, wow, still impresses me to this day!
I still can't forgive Sony for killing Psygnosis. I played a TON of their games all my life, from Flink to Discworld, and of course I put hundreds of hours on the Wipeout franchise. Amazing studio which is very missed
@Deep Flake Is it truly coming back when you merely dress up another studio in a beloved developer’s name and logo a la Infograemes and their brilliant idea to buy the Atari name and logo and wear it like a skin suit while continuing to push out complete shite on unsuspecting gamers? Don’t get your hopes up, laddo. 😑
My mum worked for Psygnosis during the Sony takeover, always said that it was a god group of people who worked there. Sony gets a lot of stick for shutting the studio down but it really made sense at the time, with the company being more than 30 years old at the time (infact some of the team original started together in the 80s as something like ‘imagine studios’, don’t quote me on the name) lots of the original developers where coming to the end of their careers, many of the staff at psygnosis who weren’t, were just moved to different places within the sec group. Some of the Liverpool based workers set up their own studio called firesprite and Sony gave them the work for the playstion playroom on ps4 and were later bought by Sony again. I have fond memories of psygnosis games imprinted into my memory from a very young age and later being able to play the PS1. It all reminds me of what feels like a better time in the gaming industry, when passionate developers made games they wanted to play.
@@itsaPIXELthing will do! Just made a video for psygnosis wipeout and sierra Space Quest. Wish I'd seen your videos in advance of that. Look forward to exploring them!
Psygnosis: There is this story that Psygnosis were interested in the CD32 and had ideas how to improve it, but received the cold shoulder from top Commodore management. Sony did not and the rest is very good history. Thank you for being the technical and creative genius you are. You inspired lots of folks.
Lol also had that free game from my monster 3dfx!! I loved g Police on the ps1. Man your editing is top notch, love all the motion graphic and the last scroll with all the titles.
Mais uma vez, um grande video, você está fazendo um trabalho histórico de curadoria sobre o trabalho de todos estes criadores. Parabéns, quando a pandemia passar e eu for a Portugal, gostaria de apertar tua mão! Por ora, vai mais um obrigado!
No. GT Interactive published the first driver. I only mentioned that reflections went on to create the Driver series and that Psygnosis believed in them and gave them the opportunity of a lifetime.
Lomax was one great platformer I love up to this very day. The game released on PC as well, but was inconsistent and had issues on my Windows 95 playing it, however the Playstation one ended up being better.
I loved so many games under the name of psygnosis. But the most important game for me was novastorm. That game more than blow me away. This was one of the initial reasons to develope by my self. Today i have my own diy arcade with my own game but it can run also a dos emulation of novastorm. I love it.
I had Lemmings & Menace on Amiga thankfully.. But I’m still kicking myself I never did get Blood Money.. As far as Shadow of the Beast I would imagine lots of OG Castlevania fans would really like it..
I think the reason i wasn't a massive gaming fan, or at least not as fanatical as my pals way back then, was due too the fact there were so many shoot em ups and platform games! I hated both style of games. Yeah, there were the few exceptions, like Mario 1, 2, 3 and Silpheed.... but that was it. Games for me, are when you had too make choices, pick or buy right items too progress in the story, or Solo FPS games, Alien Breed 3D, Wolfenstein, Faxanadu, Indiana Jones and the Fate Of Atlantis, Broken Sword........ i could obviously name so many more. But Shooters and Platform games, they were ridiculous..... it felt back then that there was one released each month.
Those amazing game covers... Unlike 8 bit titles, the graphics seen in the Psygnosis games actually matched or even surpassed what we saw in the cover. Without Psygnosis I don't think that the Amiga would have been considered the best home computer for gaming during the late 80's and early 90's. One of Sony's greatest decissions was to acquire Psygnosis and one of the most stupid was to take away the freedom they had in the early days of the Playstation franchise.
Great video ! Just a small Correction. Psy and Gnosis are Greek words. Psy comes from ψυχή (soul) and Gnosis from γνώση ( knowledge ). Both words from ancient times.
Obrigado pela partilha deste excepcional documentário acerca de uma companhia que conheço desde miúdo mas não fazia ideia que tivesse passado por tantas transformações e que infelizmente teve um fim inglório. Fiquei surpreso por saber que o Alundra é da Psygnosis. Eu não gosto de RPGs mas esse é lindo e lembro-me de ter ficado deslumbrado na altura que o vi pela primeira vez. Parecia um Anime interactivo. Excelente vídeo! Cinco estrelas! Um muito obrigado pelo bom trabalho de informação e conhecimento. Abraço.
I wonder how these young coders were able to develop games of such quality from nothing. How to design a map scroller or a raster screensplit with no tutorials, just the user manuals and 6010/Z80 assembly knowledge. It's just impressive 👍
Correction: Psygnosis comes from greek not latin psy like in psychologogy comes from psyche which means soul and gnosis which means knowledge so knowledge of soul, if it was from latin it would have anima instead of psy.
Thank you for sharing all this good stuff with us. But...you made a little mistake about the Psygnosis name... gnosis is not latin but greek! ΙIn modern greek γνωση= Knowledge. In ancient greek: γνωσις=Knowledge . Even the Psy in the beginning of the logo might be greek from the greek word ψυχη = soul. ( In latin the greek letter ψ is written as ps. So the meaning of psygnosis name might be: knowledge of the soul!
The name psygnosis is not really Latin but it is Greek...,the first part psy, is from the Greek word ''psyche'' (soul)...,and the second part is from the Greek word ''gnosis'' which means knowledge!!! In fact many Latin words are actually Greek and are mistakenly addressed to Latin!!!
Sorry some of the 'facts' presented here are incorrect. Psygnosis didnt make Shadow of the Beast series for example, they published it for Reflections, same can be said for quite a few of the biggest hits. Also Ocean, Codemasters, Ultimate, and Mastertronic were the biggest names in UK gaming before Psygnosis or Imagine for that matter.
Awesome video. That has brought back sooo many memories. Congratulations and thank you.
Thank you so much, Nick! Truly appreciate your work, mainly in the WipeOut and Formula 1 series! Cheers!
@@itsaPIXELthing ah yeah. It's been a cool ride man. Psygnosis was a legendary company and gave me not just a chance, but a career. I got to learn from, and work with, some amazing people over the years and I'm eternally grateful for that. Seeing videos like this reminds me of the journey I've been on. From testing Tetrapods on my school holidays to co-creating wipeout, to journey with Curly Monsters, then back for Formula 1, then off to other ventures and then setting up Playrise and doing Table Top Racing, to Starlightganes and back working with a colleague of 30 years in Gaz Nichols. It's been a wonderful journey and I hope it continues to be as varied and crazy as it's always been. Your video has reminded me of my journey....that list of games at the end just scrolling past the screen was just a major flashback. Thank you for making the video. It's wonderful stuff to relive in a tiny loving way. So many wonderful people on the way. All legends
It was a pleasure to put this video together! I Truly love your work and everything Psygnosis related! Thank you so much!
I worked at the Stroud studio, which we established having left Microprose. I worked on G-Police (I also designed the main police "helicopter") and Overboard to name a couple. The best times, ever! Thank you making this video, it made me happy 😊
Thank you so much for stopping by! Appreciate it!
@@itsaPIXELthing don't mention it! Thank you for the video and the work you put into it 🙏 oh, if you want to see a bit of G-Police etc then head over to designbytheo.com
Not a lot there but better than nothing! :) we didn't have USBs back in the day for backups haha
Thanks for the link! :)
Thanks man, Psygnosis was the magical team of my childhood. You have compiled great information for the video.
Glad it was helpful! :)
Yep, I can feel connection with Psygnosis, I did grow with their games :)
They are coming back!
@@JB2FROSTY When?! Where? =)
These were great days! Both my uncles were involved in the 80s gaming industry and the younger one was an artist for Psygnosis. I was a youngster who got see and play with so many games-in-progress at the time.
I knew loads of people that worked at Codemasters.
Fair play man superb video and content. Psygnosis were my goto game devs during my childhood on the Amiga. I still remember the chills when watching opening sequence on SOTB2 - Good memories of games from an amazing game dev company.
Glad you enjoyed :)
Feel free to watch other similar videos, like my documentaries on Sierra On-Line, The Bitmap Brothers, LucasArts, etc!
Take care!
F1 and Wipeout are still so fresh in my memory like in 1997 when I got my Ps1, crazy how could they get rid of London Studios with such amazing gaming pedigree, amazing vídeo, the standards are even higher every time you accomplish a documentary like this! Congratulations my friend!!!
Cheers!!!
This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen! The ONLY thing I knew was Shadow of the Beast on Sega Genesis, so the entire film was educational and fun! Awesome work!
Thank you so much, Matty! Glad you enjoyed it!
Check my other similar videos, about LucasArts, Sierra On Line, Bitmap Brothers, etc :)
Cheers!
Well done mate that must've took a while to create. You deserve a lot more views than you are getting.
Thanks for the support, Barry! Appreciate it!
Have a great 2021!
This company was one of the best for Amiga in its golden age. Its intros were fantastic with impressive graphics although its playability was not always good and its difficulty was very high.
Great video. Congratulations.
Couldn't agree more! Cheers!
love your content man I'm here after watching
Kim Justice history of this and seeing your comment keep it going pal.
Thank you so much for those words, Wayne! :) Glad you enjoyed it! Such a pleasure!
Feel free to watch my other related videos, if you haven't already ;) I have similar videos for The Bitmap Brothers, Sierra On-Line, Timex Computers, Dinamic Software, Ocean Software, Lucasfilm / LucasArts, etc ;)
I love the artwork of these old psygnosis games. There's something special about them
Without a doubt, Psygnosis was one of the most influential videogame developers/publishers ever! It's a real pity what Sony did to them. I still have a few classics to try out, but that Agony game, wow, still impresses me to this day!
Agony is so awesome, indeed! :)
Bom ano, Ivo!!!! Obrigado!
Man, I grew up with this studio, playing their games of course. Cherished memories.
Thanks for leaving your comment! Appreciate it!
I still can't forgive Sony for killing Psygnosis. I played a TON of their games all my life, from Flink to Discworld, and of course I put hundreds of hours on the Wipeout franchise. Amazing studio which is very missed
At that point, you'd just have gotten 200 more racing games...
@@gnoe4815 I suppose you're right. There was innovative titles from Psygnosis, but they began to bland quite early in their history.
They just renewed the logo and trademark! They are coming back :)
@@JB2FROSTY Good to know ! Thks mate !
@Deep Flake Is it truly coming back when you merely dress up another studio in a beloved developer’s name and logo a la Infograemes and their brilliant idea to buy the Atari name and logo and wear it like a skin suit while continuing to push out complete shite on unsuspecting gamers? Don’t get your hopes up, laddo. 😑
Thank you Psygnosis, good times during my Amiga period ...
Thanks for watching, Carlos! Take care!
Shadow of the beast 3 is absolutely my favorite 16 bit game.
What a game! :)
My mum worked for Psygnosis during the Sony takeover, always said that it was a god group of people who worked there.
Sony gets a lot of stick for shutting the studio down but it really made sense at the time, with the company being more than 30 years old at the time (infact some of the team original started together in the 80s as something like ‘imagine studios’, don’t quote me on the name) lots of the original developers where coming to the end of their careers, many of the staff at psygnosis who weren’t, were just moved to different places within the sec group.
Some of the Liverpool based workers set up their own studio called firesprite and Sony gave them the work for the playstion playroom on ps4 and were later bought by Sony again.
I have fond memories of psygnosis games imprinted into my memory from a very young age and later being able to play the PS1.
It all reminds me of what feels like a better time in the gaming industry, when passionate developers made games they wanted to play.
Yeah, it all started as Imagine Software ;) Thank you so much for sharing that bit of history! :) Amazing to know! Cheers!
Great job sharing the history of this amazing company! Thanks for creating this video! I subscribed!
Appreciate it! Fee free to check also my documentaries on Sierra On-Line, The Bitmap Brothers and more :)
Cheers!
@@itsaPIXELthing will do! Just made a video for psygnosis wipeout and sierra Space Quest. Wish I'd seen your videos in advance of that. Look forward to exploring them!
Thank you and compliments for this really high production value video.
Great vid! Also, Traveler's Tales started at Psygnosis with the Amiga with Leander. Another great game/developer!!!
Love the video! Great work, I love Psygnosis !
Me too!
Great documentary! I like that you use tons of well researched clips!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Psygnosis: There is this story that Psygnosis were interested in the CD32 and had ideas how to improve it, but received the cold shoulder from top Commodore management. Sony did not and the rest is very good history. Thank you for being the technical and creative genius you are. You inspired lots of folks.
Another awesome video. Thanks!
My pleasure! Thanks, Hugo!
Great video as already you do. Congrats for this incredible research on the video games inudstry
Glad you enjoy it!
Very nice video. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Great video, just like a documentary!
Pixel, you rule!
Wow, thanks!
Wow, very cool. Thanks!
No problem! :)
oohhh Lemmings... we need more games like that for the current gen! Great video!
Yes! Thank you!
Hey, great video👍Have a great Christmas 🙂
Thanks! Have a great 2021!
Take care!
If you owned an amiga you would at least own a copy of one of thier games
liked it before i even watched it :P
Me too 😂
You KNOW it's quality content as soon as you see the upload! Thanks for the video!
Thank you so much!
Thanks, Eliran!
Thanks! Truly appreciate it!
Lol also had that free game from my monster 3dfx!! I loved g Police on the ps1. Man your editing is top notch, love all the motion graphic and the last scroll with all the titles.
I miss my Monster 3DFX card....
Mais uma vez, um grande video, você está fazendo um trabalho histórico de curadoria sobre o trabalho de todos estes criadores. Parabéns, quando a pandemia passar e eu for a Portugal, gostaria de apertar tua mão! Por ora, vai mais um obrigado!
Obrigado eu, Eduardo! Tudo de bom e um excelente 2021! Abraço!
Tantos títulos que joguei e tantos que me faltam na coleção...
Excelente vídeo 👌. Thanks
Obrigado, Pedro! Grande abraço!
Great video, thanks!
You're welcome!
Another amazing video! Thank you :) Psygnosis just had too many great games! "Awesome" was another favorite of mine.
Thanks for watching ;)
I know Driver was made by Reflections, was that still part of Psygnosis or not?
No. GT Interactive published the first driver. I only mentioned that reflections went on to create the Driver series and that Psygnosis believed in them and gave them the opportunity of a lifetime.
The Psygnosis game I'm most familiar with and that I played as a kid was Blood Money.
Great vid as usual Pedro. So many memories!
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Thank you for this.
My pleasure!
Continuo a dizer que os teus vídeos e comentário deviam ir mais além do youtube, ótimo vídeo Pixel. 👏🏻😉
Obrigado pelo apoio, Marisa :)
We need an Amiga mini, an overlooked and much loved system in UK. Loved Blood Money and Shadow of The Beast.
Great video. The voice over sometimes sounds like Borat, and that only makes it better.
Eh eh eh eh! Thanks! :)
Yet another documentary with Netflix quality....
Damn Pedro...amazing.....👍
Glad you enjoy it!
Very good games! I enjoyed many of them in the Amiga era and also later ...
Psygnosis's PlayStation journey was started and ended with Wipeout, kind of awesome really.
Yeah, indeed
Never clicked anything so fast!
Thanks, mate! Have a great 2021!
Lomax was one great platformer I love up to this very day. The game released on PC as well, but was inconsistent and had issues on my Windows 95 playing it, however the Playstation one ended up being better.
so glad you reminded me of alundra, i shal have to burn a copy for my cheeky chipped ps1 still going strong
another great video!!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it, Derek!
I loved so many games under the name of psygnosis. But the most important game for me was novastorm. That game more than blow me away. This was one of the initial reasons to develope by my self. Today i have my own diy arcade with my own game but it can run also a dos emulation of novastorm. I love it.
I had Lemmings & Menace on Amiga thankfully.. But I’m still kicking myself I never did get Blood Money..
As far as Shadow of the Beast I would imagine lots of OG Castlevania fans would really like it..
Indeed :)
Boas amigo Pixel,
Grande trabalho mesmo, muito bem conseguido 😉.
Sempre a aprender por aqui.
Grande abraço
Obrigado eu, Renato! Abraço!
14:18 - fyi £35 in 1990 is worth £101.78 today (09.2023)
more then 30k km done in f1 06 ps3...graphics were sick back then..
grande trabalho, Pedro. Parabéns!
Obrigado, Paulo!
Brings back a few memories!
I think the reason i wasn't a massive gaming fan, or at least not as fanatical as my pals way back then, was due too the fact there were so many shoot em ups and platform games! I hated both style of games.
Yeah, there were the few exceptions, like Mario 1, 2, 3 and Silpheed.... but that was it.
Games for me, are when you had too make choices, pick or buy right items too progress in the story, or Solo FPS games, Alien Breed 3D, Wolfenstein, Faxanadu, Indiana Jones and the Fate Of Atlantis, Broken Sword........ i could obviously name so many more.
But Shooters and Platform games, they were ridiculous..... it felt back then that there was one released each month.
Those amazing game covers... Unlike 8 bit titles, the graphics seen in the Psygnosis games actually matched or even surpassed what we saw in the cover.
Without Psygnosis I don't think that the Amiga would have been considered the best home computer for gaming during the late 80's and early 90's.
One of Sony's greatest decissions was to acquire Psygnosis and one of the most stupid was to take away the freedom they had in the early days of the Playstation franchise.
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O.D.T., Team Buddies, those were my days 😊
Adorei conhecer mais sobre esta empresa! Obrigada por trazeres conteúdo que nos ensina tanto!! :)
Obrigado eu, Nicole!
Great! Enjoyed this.
Appreciate it! Check out my other related videos, like the history of Sierra OnLine and the Bitmap Brothers, among others 😉 cheers!
What's the name of the last background song playing?
It's "Industrial Metal" by FaZt ;)
Legendary super company. I remember it from Amiga.
Great video. :) Very interesting video about the gaming history. :)
Abraço! :)
Muito obrigado pelas palavras, João!
Abraço!
25:45
any backstory on that bottom right photo?
About Demolition Derby?
Great video ! Just a small Correction. Psy and Gnosis are Greek words. Psy comes from ψυχή (soul) and Gnosis from γνώση ( knowledge ). Both words from ancient times.
Thanks for pointing that! Appreciate it!
@@itsaPIXELthing you are most welcome man. Keep up the great work ! Amazing videos.
Obrigado pela partilha deste excepcional documentário acerca de uma companhia que conheço desde miúdo mas não fazia ideia que tivesse passado por tantas transformações e que infelizmente teve um fim inglório. Fiquei surpreso por saber que o Alundra é da Psygnosis. Eu não gosto de RPGs mas esse é lindo e lembro-me de ter ficado deslumbrado na altura que o vi pela primeira vez. Parecia um Anime interactivo. Excelente vídeo! Cinco estrelas! Um muito obrigado pelo bom trabalho de informação e conhecimento. Abraço.
Obrigado eu por estares aí a assistir a estes meus vídeos ;)
Nice review, thanks
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
I wonder how these young coders were able to develop games of such quality from nothing. How to design a map scroller or a raster screensplit with no tutorials, just the user manuals and 6010/Z80 assembly knowledge. It's just impressive 👍
Indeed ;)
great times, so many incredible quality titles by Psygnosis and Bizarre... harnessing real talent!!!
Drakan was so.. SO good.. :(
Excelente video! No entanto, vou ter que discordar com ODT, eu considero-o um ótimo jogo que é muito incompreendido ^^
ai esta uma companhia que so conhecia dos jogos da ps1! bom video!
Obrigado, amigo! Abraço!
They were so successful that Sony decided to shut them down. Sony♥️
Awesome!
Appreciate it!
Parabens que Grande video Excelente trabalho digno de uma serie da Netflix
Muito obrigado, Marcelo!
Abraço!
Gosto muito da era da PS1 sobretudo de jogos como WipEout ou Colony Wars, entre outros que mencionaste. Obrigado por este video, gostei muito =)
Obrigado eu, Mike ;)
Abraço!
mad to think that DMA went on to make Grand theft auto.
Shout out to Borat for the history lesson. Yecksmesch!!
Correction: Psygnosis comes from greek not latin psy like in psychologogy comes from psyche which means soul and gnosis which means knowledge so knowledge of soul, if it was from latin it would have anima instead of psy.
Is there any reason to shout out PSIEGnosis 500 times as if you're trying to sell a hemmorrhoid cream in a commercial?
They are pretty much just XDev Europe now.
Amigo grande vídeo estas parabéns adorei ver todo mais uma vez ....:) m
Obrigado, K!
RIP Ian Hetherington
Nice vid! One correction though, PSY and Gnosis come from Greek, not latin
Thanks for pointing that out :) appreciate it!
Psygnosis presents.......................
❤
28:23 O.D.T. is a great game.
Awsome ✌
Thanks ✌️
Ecstatica II
That's all I can say
What about LEANDER ?!?
Thank you for sharing all this good stuff with us. But...you made a little mistake about the Psygnosis name... gnosis is not latin but greek! ΙIn modern greek γνωση= Knowledge. In ancient greek: γνωσις=Knowledge . Even the Psy in the beginning of the logo might be greek from the greek word ψυχη = soul. ( In latin the greek letter ψ is written as ps. So the meaning of psygnosis name might be: knowledge of the soul!
My bad ;) Thanks for clarifying that!
Take care!
@@itsaPIXELthing You share so much memories and information with us in your videos!!! Keep up the good work!!!
What's a "Wurthday" ?
The name psygnosis is not really Latin but it is Greek...,the first part psy, is from the Greek word ''psyche'' (soul)...,and the second part is from the Greek word ''gnosis'' which means knowledge!!!
In fact many Latin words are actually Greek and are mistakenly addressed to Latin!!!
It is hilarious how aggressively you pronounce PSYGNOSIS as if you hate their guts xD
And dude how often you say it.
6.5 gb for Microsm. Do you mean 650 megabyte.
Nope, the uncompressed data was 6.5 gigs back in the day ;)
Sorry some of the 'facts' presented here are incorrect. Psygnosis didnt make Shadow of the Beast series for example, they published it for Reflections, same can be said for quite a few of the biggest hits. Also Ocean, Codemasters, Ultimate, and Mastertronic were the biggest names in UK gaming before Psygnosis or Imagine for that matter.
Never said that Psygnosis made shadow of the beast.
Codemasters and Mastertronic were not big names before Imagine. They didn't even exist at the time.
Sony was their downfall.