Founded By: Thorn EMI Location: ? Year Started: 1982 Year Wound Up: 1985 Titles in Database: 25 Rights Now With: Alternative Software

Creative Sparks was a British video games software house in existence during the 1980s. The company started out as Thorn EMI Computer Software, a division of the now-defunct British conglomerate Thorn EMI, and later changed its name. Creative Sparks also used the Sparklers label for budget-priced reissues of their old software. Later, the low-cost software label Alternative Software acquired the distribution rights to several Creative Sparks titles. As a result, many games were issued on more than one label, sometimes appearing on all four at various stages. An example of this is River Rescue; this first appeared on the Thorn EMI label, then later reappeared in Creative Sparks packaging. It was next re-issued on the budget Creative Sparks 'Sparklers' label, before finally being distributed in new packaging (also at a budget price) by Alternative.