They Were Our Gods
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I'd buy it.
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Sounds great Paul, best of luck fella.
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Looking forward to following your progress on this. I was an Atari 800 man, rather than c64/spectrum, back in those days but I love reading about all sorts of retro stuff, so I'm sure there'll be plenty of interest. Good luck.
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Yeah, the Atari 800 was a much smaller part of that era in the UK. That doesn't mean I would completely rule it out though.
Day 2 - is size everything? -
@paul, one of my university mates was the first person I knew that got full time into the games industry. His name is Dave Worral, he started out with Red Rat software and wrote Lombard RAC Rally for st and Amiga, he then went on to psygnosis where he worked on stuff including I think leading Carthage. After that I think he may have been at dma design but it gets hazy.
He's one of my contacts on LinkedIn or Facebook I can try and get in touch with him for you when you're ready if you like.
I was involved with red rat from their early days while I was at uni between 84 and 87 and I guess Dave was involved from 87 ish onwards.
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John, what games did you write again for the Atari 8 bit?
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Nothing worth mentioning for the 8bit, a basic conversion called rocket repairman (that had awesome sf artwork by a famous book illustrator called Eddie Jones, who bog knows of and was well impressed) and a mini games collection type game called Forbidden Island I think (so bad I can't remember). I actually did all the tape and disk loaders for red rat though and prepared everything to go to the duplicators.
I did do a better game for ST and Amiga called Timerunner, which looking back wasn't ace but it wasn't as crap as the others, it was kind of an 8bit game with better gfx just as proper 16bit games got started.
But I was still part of it all in my own small way :)Post edited by sty at 2012-05-29 08:15:03 -
She followed, or requested to follow me even, a while ago. Denied.
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A wise move by you, methinks.
I've put another post up, although it basically says nothing: Day 4 - best laid plans. I've also put up a two-question "either/or" poll, just out of curiosity, really. -
Another wee post: I love it when a plan comes together.
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Look forward to following this Paul, it's a huge undertaking and will require a lot of effort but I'm sure you're well up for the job.
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I've created a Facebook page for this now. There's not much there now, but I'll be posting all my updates there, too (if it lets me... posting seems a bit iffy but I'm sure I'll work it out).
Oh, the link: Facebook - They Were Our Gods -
sty said:
Nothing worth mentioning for the 8bit, a basic conversion called rocket repairman (that had awesome sf artwork by a famous book illustrator called Eddie Jones, who bog knows of and was well impressed) and a mini games collection type game called Forbidden Island I think (so bad I can't remember). I actually did all the tape and disk loaders for red rat though and prepared everything to go to the duplicators.
I used to work with a guy who had a few games published by RedRat - Ivan Macintosh, who wrote (that I remember) Crumbles Crisis, Rebound, Black Lamp and Space Lobsters.
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Another quick post: Day 6 - Covering the Spectrum
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Elite... or Elite?
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Paul, I'm enjoying reading these little bite-sized tasters.
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Haha!
I'm getting a feeling from various places that they want to see a book like this... I think our bedroom programmers, who came up with so many imaginative games on our 8-bit computers, have not had the recognition they deserved. There could be a nice little niche for this, here's hoping.
Got another little quickie: Day 10 - first contact -
How do they feel about the adulation they still receive from certain quarters for something they did some 30 years ago?
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Dunno yet... the first one is going to answer my massive e-mail when he's got time. Hope I didn't scare him off, it was huge! I've literally just sent off the first e-mail to my second subject. The difficulty is going to come with the ones that don't have any kind of public e-mail or contact details readily available... which is most of them...
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