STOP THE PRESS Support the new Super Samurai click here to support the kickstarter Interview with Raffaele Cecco by Peter Ward Thank you for this interview it is an honour for me to interview such a Legend…. It’s a pleasure and thanks for the compliment! What did you want to do when you were at school before making your first game at school? I’d always been interested in science, technology, engineering and electronics, so I’m pretty sure I would have ended up working in those fields – I didn’t fancy working…
Read More
Mike Lamb Interview by Peter Ward What did you want to do when you were at school for a career and what was your first job? Astronaut, footballer, secret agent. My first job was picking tomatoes in a green house The Commodore PET was your first computer is that your favourite computer? or do you have a different favourite such as when you owned a Spectrum? I liked the proper keyboard. Even now I hate laptops for the same reason. I guess my favorite retro was the Amstrad. When…
Read More
Ian Stewart Interview by Peter Ward 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? I wanted to be a toolmaker and took a five year engineering apprenticeship after leaving school at 16. When did you realise you wanted to get into game industry and how did it happen? I took a career change in 1976 and went into retail management with…
Read More
Marc Djan Interview by Peter Ward 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? I cannot really remember but something around the sport business. What was your first computer and is that your favourite computer or do you have a different favourite? My first computer was an Atari ST and my favorite one was the 1st Mac . it was…
Read More
Interview by Peter Ward Thank you for this interview it is anhonorfor me toi nterview such a Legend…. Whatdid you want to do when you were at school for a career and what was your first job? At school I had no idea what I wanted to do as a career but I hoped it would be something based in the arts and I was preparing to attend Glasgow School of Art. I had owned a ZX Spectrum for a few years and I had started creating mockups of…
Read More
Click Here to support the Kickstarter Interview by Peter Ward OverviewIf you were a ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Atari ST or Amiga gamer, then the chances are you played games published by two small British companies called Hewson Consultants and 21st Century Entertainment. Throughout the 1980s Hewson built up a reputation for producing some of the finest games of the era, publishing smash-hit titles such as Avalon, Paradroid, Uridium, Nebulus, Exolon, Cybernoid, Quazatron, Stormlord and Zynaps from legendary programmers like Steve Turner, Andrew Braybrook, Raffaele Cecco and John…
Read More
Interview with Gary Bracey by Peter Ward Hello Gary welcome to retrogamesmaster it is an honour to interview one of the pioneers of the industry. What did you want to do when you was at school for a career and what was your first job? [[GB] ] At one time I was studying to get into law but when I got to a certain age I decided I didn’t want to study for another 5 years but get out in the real world and start earning some money to pay…
Read More
Joe Granato IV Creative Director at www.thenew8bitheroes.com Interview by Peter Ward After officially deciding to move forward with this project, I reached out to the childhood friend who I originally conceptualized this 8-bit world with over 25 years ago. We hadn’t talked in decades, but ironically, even though life had led us thousands of miles from our native home, they had been thousands of miles in the same direction, and he coincidentally lived near enough to visit on a whim. We met up at Player1 Game Bar in Orlando, a great…
Read More
David Rowe Interview by Peter Ward Many of the artworks that he produced during the Eighties and Nineties for Computer Games, Magazines, Books and Television have been digitised at high resolution for sale as high quality giclée prints. Clients include: Broadsword Television, Anglia TV (Knightmare, Satellite Game, TimeBusters ,Electronic Arts, Bullfrog, Psygnosis, Beyond Software, Neo, Quicksilva, Melbourne House, Firebird, Virgin Games, Thalamus, Addison Wesley, Interface Publications, Argus Books, Computer and Video Games, Future Publishing. Hello and Welcome to RGM its an honour to interview such…
Read More
Name : Jim Bagley Programmer : Programming Languages :- Z80 6502 6809E 680X0 65816 65C02 80X86 SH1 SH2 R3000 C C++ C# VB OPEN GL DIRECT X ARM & THUMB PIC MICRO CONTROLLER ASM PARALLAX PROPELLER SPIN & ASM Published Title :- Target Machine :- Task Throne Of Fire :- Spectrum :- Sole Programmer Road Runner :- Spectrum :- Sole Programmer Street Sports Basketball :- Spectrum :- Sole Programmer World Class Leaderboard :- Spectrum :- Sole Programmer Gutz :- Spectrum :- Sole Programmer Batman Caped Crusader :- Amstrad :-…
Read More
