In mid-1987, Chris Gibbs, Martin Green, Nalin Sharma, and Jon Steele created the
Atari ST port of
Super Sprint for
Activision. Sharma had already had experience developing
Commodore 64 and contacts in the
video game industry, which enabled the group's partnership with Activision. The conversion was finished in twelve weeks. Simultaneously, Fred Gill had developed the game
Octan for the
ZX Spectrum, which he sold to
Firebird. Gibbs, Gill, Green, and Stelle, as well as Jim Torjussen, founded Attention to Detail in September 1988. All founders were
University of Birmingham graduates. The company occupied of converted barns in
Hatton, in rural
Warwickshire. In January 1997, the company was acquired by Geoff Brown, who established
Geoff Brown Holdings (later Kaboom Studios) to manage the ownership. Amid financial struggles at Kaboom Studios and with Attention to Detail unable to find a publisher for
Ion Runner, the studio was placed into
liquidation on 28 August 2003, laying off all 50 staff members and cancelling
Ion Runner. == Games developed ==