A history of the UK video game industry through my eyes. Part 3
Whilst Codemasters was an exciting place to be it was also very much a family company and I felt that I would never get the rewards and recognition that could […]
Anecdotal musing
A history of the UK video game industry through my eyes. Part 2
So here is the second of three parts of a potted history of UK gaming through one pair of eyes. As first published on the Kwalee website. If you are […]
A history of the UK video game industry through my eyes. Part 1.
In the early 1970s I trained as an accountant in Liverpool, because of wanting to be a businessman. There wasn’t the plethora of business degrees then so serving articles for […]
Dr Henry Edward Roberts
Dr Henry Edward Roberts has died at the age of 68. He was truly the father of home computing, the platform on which video gaming is based. His company was […]
Game development clusters
30 years ago commercial videogames for home computers arrived in Liverpool when I brought a pile of Apple 2 games to Microdigital that I had bought at Computer Components of […]
Will lightning strike twice at Apple?
I opened one of the first computer stores, Microdigital in Liverpool, in 1978. So I was in a good position to see the rise of Apple to dominate the personal […]
Imagine, Ocean, historic early game industry videos
Obviously I know the people in these videos. Sadly a few of them are now dead, which is the first thing that comes to my mind when I see them, […]