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My latest post is on the early career of David and Richard Darling, and how they became a crucial part of Mastertronic then gave it up to launch their own rival company. Things started pretty well for Code Masters when their first game, BMX Simulator, hit #1 in the UK charts

In 1983, sixteen-year-old Spectrum adventure game programmer John Pickford gave a list of dislikes including "younger brothers who hog his computer and constantly beat his scores at arcade games". Four years later, John and his brother Ste designed Feud, and their game about feuding wizard brothers hit the top of the UK charts. I've written about how they got to that point

A newly translated interview from 2023 with two legendary game composers

I've written about the history of the home conversion of Gauntlet by Gremlin Graphics and U.S. Gold, and the wave of similar games at the same time including Dandy and Druid.