These Retro Gaming posts keep throwing up great names from yesteryear that send my mind on a little trip down memory lane thinking about all the great games they did - It's time for a thread in which we can salute these greats and the works they provided.
These days it's all Hideo says this, Suzuki says that, Mizuguchi's doing this - But what are they really doing ? Are they busting an artery in front of a computer 24/7 pumping out some cool gamecode in a dimly lit room - Can they even program or do they just project manage ?
These guys could - They did it all (sometimes with a little help from friends)
The roll call begins :
Raffaelle Cecco - I loved just about everything the man did - Equinox, Cybernoid 1&2 - He had a really good grasp of the Speccy and pushed it delivering what I'd call arcade style thrills in the home.
Andrew Braybook - Uridium, Quazatron, Paradroid, Fire & Ice - Again, an impeccable portfolio.
Geoff Crammond - The Sentinel, Stunt Car Racer, The best GP games ever made (hot-seat multiplayer in GP2 was one of my fav things ever back in the day)
David Jones - Blood Money, Lemmings, GTA - He's a Scottish Treasure
. Nintendo used to make frequent trips to Dundee to meet with him and his staff back in the days of the SNES/N64 - To me that speaks volumes.
Keith ???? (possibly Harrington or something?) - Forget the surname - he converted some of my favourite sega arcade machines to the home - Space Harrier, Outrun, Probably Afterburner - He seemed to have a knack or a mate I dunno
Dave Perry - I'm wondering if this might prove controversial but back then, man he was a hungry young guy pumping out the titles - I adored the Wally Games (Everyone's A Wally/Pyjamarama/Automania) and he went on to do Alladin & Cool Spot on MD - both very impressive both in terms of design & quality (Aladin was particularly impressive)
Pete Cooke - Oh man, Everything he did made me smile - Here's his softography I think it speaks for itself :
Invincible Island - 1983
Urban Upstart - 1984
Inferno - 1984
Ski Star 2000 - 1985
Juggernaut - 1985
Tau Ceti - 1985
Room 10 - 1986
Academy - 1987
Micronaut One - 1987
Brainstorm - 1988
Earthlight - 1988
Zolyx - 1988
Paul Woakes - Mercenary. On The Spectrum.
I was gonna stop now but I want to add :
Keith Dalglish - Musical Maestro on the spectrum (noticing a platform bias here yet ?)
David Whittaker - As above - He was the ZX Speccy's Rob Hubbard (although Rob did a few speccy tunes his best stuff was always on C64).
I'll come back later and add some images from their titles. Just to make the thread nice & stuff.
These days it's all Hideo says this, Suzuki says that, Mizuguchi's doing this - But what are they really doing ? Are they busting an artery in front of a computer 24/7 pumping out some cool gamecode in a dimly lit room - Can they even program or do they just project manage ?
These guys could - They did it all (sometimes with a little help from friends)
The roll call begins :
Raffaelle Cecco - I loved just about everything the man did - Equinox, Cybernoid 1&2 - He had a really good grasp of the Speccy and pushed it delivering what I'd call arcade style thrills in the home.
Andrew Braybook - Uridium, Quazatron, Paradroid, Fire & Ice - Again, an impeccable portfolio.
Geoff Crammond - The Sentinel, Stunt Car Racer, The best GP games ever made (hot-seat multiplayer in GP2 was one of my fav things ever back in the day)
David Jones - Blood Money, Lemmings, GTA - He's a Scottish Treasure
. Nintendo used to make frequent trips to Dundee to meet with him and his staff back in the days of the SNES/N64 - To me that speaks volumes.Keith ???? (possibly Harrington or something?) - Forget the surname - he converted some of my favourite sega arcade machines to the home - Space Harrier, Outrun, Probably Afterburner - He seemed to have a knack or a mate I dunno
Dave Perry - I'm wondering if this might prove controversial but back then, man he was a hungry young guy pumping out the titles - I adored the Wally Games (Everyone's A Wally/Pyjamarama/Automania) and he went on to do Alladin & Cool Spot on MD - both very impressive both in terms of design & quality (Aladin was particularly impressive)
Pete Cooke - Oh man, Everything he did made me smile - Here's his softography I think it speaks for itself :
Invincible Island - 1983
Urban Upstart - 1984
Inferno - 1984
Ski Star 2000 - 1985
Juggernaut - 1985
Tau Ceti - 1985
Room 10 - 1986
Academy - 1987
Micronaut One - 1987
Brainstorm - 1988
Earthlight - 1988
Zolyx - 1988
Paul Woakes - Mercenary. On The Spectrum.
I was gonna stop now but I want to add :
Keith Dalglish - Musical Maestro on the spectrum (noticing a platform bias here yet ?)
David Whittaker - As above - He was the ZX Speccy's Rob Hubbard (although Rob did a few speccy tunes his best stuff was always on C64).
I'll come back later and add some images from their titles. Just to make the thread nice & stuff.
Pure Genius! 
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