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In 1980, the British government set up the Microelectronics Education Programme, MEP, with an initial budget of £12 million for four years. It was aimed at schools, and…
In 1983, Mervyn J. Estcourt made the cult classic Spectrum motorbike warfare game Deathchase (also released in America under the title Cyclepath). He followed that up with the…
In June 1986, Japanese computer game magazine LOGiN launched a spin-off magazine, initially focused on Nintendo’s Famicom but soon taking in a wider range of platforms. It kept…
At Christmas 1985, the UK’s game charts saw a battle between two hit games along very similar lines. Elite Systems secured the rights to Capcom’s Commando arcade machine,…
Back in the earlier days of the British microcomputer boom, when we were still figuring out what computer games could be, Psion’s Flight Simulation was a huge hit…
In 1979 a group of four Atari programmers left and set up a new company. They felt that they weren’t getting their due for creating the games that…
He squinted to clear his vision, looking down the mound where Treasle lay flat in the brush. Christ, he had hit him. God, he had not wanted that,…
1985 was quite a year for Tokuro Fujiwara. He had earlier started his career at Konami, joining from Osaka Designers’ College to do visual design work, initially without…
While the UK’s market for computer games grew rapidly from 1983, things were not going the same way with adjacent markets over in America. As former Action Graphics…
Manic Miner did not have very much to say about mining. Its name and ostensible theme came from Miner 2049er, but anything mine-related was incidental to all the…
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