This is a KS project that looks awesome, i remember all of this as it was happening at the time as im sure some of the longtime gamers on here do also. It has many reviews from many of the industry Veterans from the 1980s Golden age of British Home Computing. Its currently in development but its gonna be awesome, its good to hear from the Devs on how they started and what it was like back then, From David Braben to Geoff Crammond to Tony Crowther to Peter Molyneux to Julian "Zzap64" Rignall. Its very interesting if you remember these days or not as its history in the making. http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/film-clips "From Bedrooms to Billions" – Documentary to celebrate the birth of the UK’s gaming industry http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1195082866/from-bedrooms-to-billions
Although not in the same league, I can remember when Mastertronic was set up by a couple of brothers back in the Spectrum 48K days.
I've chatted with the guy who invented the Worms universe a few times, he owned a bar called iBar here until recently. Worms was one of the first games I was addicted to so it's cool for me It's a shame it was stolen from under him and he made very little from it. He told me he was creating a new worms that would only be playable in his iBar and it would include princess diana bombs or something and generally all non-PC stuff, shame he lost the bar lol. I got him on FB still maybe he should hear about this..
Talking of Minter, I used to frequent his forums. In the music section I got to talking about the band Yes and the album Close to the Edge, Jeff was a big fan it turned out and my thread made him buy the album again on download. It was kind of a moment for me as I grew up on Llamasoft. I always remember it was just before the XB 360 launched as Minter had just finished doing the visual effects for the music player on it.
I can remember buying magazines like Spectrum User, and slavishly typing in those BASIC games just to see if they would work. Often they would have bugs in them which needed ironing out, but it was fun learning. That may be why I enjoy playing JetPack Joyride these days, because sideways scrollers were among my favourite type of game.
I still have around 200 magazines in the attic from all the popular formats years ago. I also threw out around 10 bin bags worth around 12 years ago.
No Problem, i think it holds a special place for people who actually were playing games back in the Halcyon days. It brings back many treasured memories for me. WTF Happened to Matthew Smith? Has he been on the crack pipe for the last 20 years.
Off at a slight tangent now, but did any of you ever have a crack at writing your own adventures using The Quill, by Gilsoft?
I did ( a poor effort it was ) and I also made an arcade shooter in H.U.R.G. don't know if anyone remembers that but it was a real powerful piece of software for its day.
Aaaah, will watch this tonight. I have very fond memories of the gaming scene back in the late 80s, early 90s. I remember it was a very tight knit community back in the day, regular sunday meets at the local Amiga club where up to a hundred enthusiasts would meet up every week, with their Amigas in their bags and then show off their latest demos, new games etc. It was brilliant, me and my brother used to go all the time. Those days are sadly gone. I also remember buying all the popular magazines, I remember travelling on the tram around the entire city until I found a copy of my beloved mag on it's release day. Good times.
reminds me too of the days when i got my zx81+16Kb ram pac and stick on keyboard bundle from john menzies, back in the early 80's i to used go in the store and type code into the display machines to lock them up lol .. just seemed funny back in the day as the sales people where clueless at first untill we got cought and banned from the shop lol i used to love the £1.99 codemaster range of games heeh
