  ubisoft reflections ltd., formerly known as reflections interactive, is a british video game developer based in newcastle, united kingdom. the studio focuses on racing games and it is best known for creating the award winning driver series. ==history== martin edmondson started developing games for the bbc micro with nicholas chamberlain in 1984. their first game was a paperboy clone called paper-round that took two years to develop but was never released.profile, a&b computing, october 1988 while working on that game, they started ravenskull which would be their first published game, released in 1986 by superior software. this was followed by codename: droid and an acorn electron conversion of stryker's run in 1987. the name reflections was first used for their 1989 hit amiga game, shadow of the beast, published by psygnosis which spawned two sequels. the original amiga game was partially written by paul howarth, and started out life as a parallax test of the fat agnus bit blitter chip on the amiga, paul later went on to work for deep red games, a uk video game company based in milton keynes. a number of other amiga and atari st games followed including ballistix (1989), awesome (1990) and brian the lion (1994). in 1995, they became known for destruction derby, which was critically acclaimed for its realistic physics and destruction, which later become reflections' specialty.{{cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/company/ubisoft-reflecti
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