 Spidersoft was founded by Steve Marsden and David Cooke, with assistance from Andrew Hewson, on 5 May 1992.Marsden and Cooke had previously developed "Technician Ted" for ZX Spectrum, which was published by Hewson's Hewson Consultants in 1984.Although Hewson Consultants shut down in 1991, a successor, 21st Century Entertainment, was founded by Hewson just a few weeks after the prior's closure.