What is GST Video?
“GST Video” was the name used by a software development company that Philips contracted to program a number of Videopac games late in the console’s commercial life. The company’s full name was General Systems Technology (GST). Jeff Fenton founded the company in 1979 in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. GST developed a number of useful programs such as typesetting software and compilers, including Timeworks Publisher and 1st Word for the Atari ST. GST already had a relationship with Philips before the firm began producing G7000 games. The “GST Video” brand was established to distinguish GST’s game design efforts from the “serious” programming work the company was doing for Philips.8 GST later became involved in game design for the MSX home computer; the MSX design firm Electric Software was another subsidiary of GST, one composed chiefly of former G7000 game programmers. Because of this, a number of Electric Software’s MSX and Spectrum games were based on ideas that debuted on the G7000.
