Yu Suzuki wanted to be a teacher. Then he got his first computers, a Zilog Z8 followed by an NEC PC-8000, and studied Electronic Science at Okayama University…
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…
After the international success of war game Beach-Head, Bruce Carver was in a position to grow Access Software. He didn’t have too far to look for help. Just…
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…
On Thursday 9 August 1984, 11.7 million people in the UK turned on BBC1 to watch Olympic Grandstand cover the Olympics in Los Angeles. Fully 20% of the…
In 1988, Crash magazine interviewed Chris and Tim Stamper, previously of British home computer game titans Ultimate, and by then setting out as Rare. At one point, when…
In 1982, Takashi Nishiyama directed an arcade game called Moon Patrol, for Irem. It featured a moon buggy which moves constantly across a lunar landscape, where you have…