Category: Interview

Interview by Peter Ward (07/07/2021) What did you want to do when you were at school for a career and what was your first job? At school I didn’t really have a long-term plan, most likely it was a career in acting, and I have appeared as an extra in a movie called Memphis Belle. I was on set for 3 weeks when I was 16 years old. My first job was delivering newspapers. When did you realise you wanted to get into the game industry and how did it…

Programming/Engineering Supercross 2000 (1999) (Core Programming) NHL 99 (1998) (Game Logic) Mortal Kombat 4 (1997) (Zeus Hardware) Cruis’n USA (1994) (Hardware) Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987) (Game Coding by) Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (1987) (Programming) The Black Cauldron (1986) (Programming by) Space Quest: Chapter I – The Sarien Encounter (1986) (Programming) King’s Quest II: Romancing the Throne (1985) (Game Logic) Hi-Res Adventure #6: The Dark Crystal (1983) (Program development ) Mouskattack (1982) (Programmer) Hi-Res Adventure #3: Cranston Manor (1981) (By)…

Interview by Peter Ward   Please could you introduce yourself in 5 or 6 lines. Born in a small town in Indiana, I was always a geek interested in games, electronics, and digital circuitry long before home computers.  I left high school able to program mainframe computers in three languages, and had learned electronic circuit design.  I attended DeVry University – one of the only purely engineering-centric schools available at the time – and worked in one of the integrated circuit design labs at National Semiconductor.  I left National to…

Dave Perry Interview by Peter Ward Dave was the President & Founder of Shiny Entertainment.  Shiny earned both critical and commercial success. Dave Started programming at 15 years of age,  he started writing computer game programming books . Since then, David has developed many games (a  lead programmer for most of them), Dave has developed for 23 video game platforms. All told, Perry’s games have totalled more than $500 million in sales.   Dave Perry CV Business Messiah (2000) (President) Sacrifice (2000) (President) R/C Stunt Copter (1999) (Production Management) Wild 9 (1998) (Tall Man & President) Production…

Dave Perry Interview by Peter Ward Hello and Welcome to Retro Games Master. It is an honour to speak to one of the gaming TV Legends. You are now a Tattooist please give us some details and how this come about and why you moved away from the game industry? I actually moved away from the games industry when the publishing company I had been working for… Rapide Publishing ran into financial difficulties. Following the Mario 64 debacle on GamesMaster I had also gone on to work with Hewland on…

Thank you for agreeing to doing an interview it is an honour to interview such a talented musician. It’s my pleasure. What did you want to do for a career when you were at school, and what was your first job? I vaguely recall wanting to be an astrophysicist but that was short lived.  Music, computers, and synthesizers fascinated me, so combining those skills together, a career in the games industry, such as it was then, was a goal from an early age.  The school I attended wasn’t really geared…

Thank you for this interview it is an honour for me to interview such a Legend… What did you want to do when you were at school for a career and what was your first job? Throughout my school life I always wanted to get a job that involved drawing or art in some way, seemed to be the only thing I was really any good at or knew anything about. Art was the thing that kept my mates happy or bullies off my back throughout my school life. I…