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Retired video game programmer. 40+ years developing videogames and software. Creator of games for the BBC Micro, Electron, NES, SNES, PC, XBox, PS3/4, Mobile, Vita, 3DS. I am currently rescuing and archiving old game development disks. LEGO Dev/AFOL.
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Pac-Man is 45 years old! This book is incredible and very informative. Everything Pac-Man related is inside these covers including original artwork and developer stories. One of my favourite books! I'd love to see similar ones for other classic arcade games! @ranja72.bsky.social

Hard to believe that Pac-Man is 45 years old - Happy Birthday! I spent a small fortune on this game in the arcades - 10p for one play back then. I managed to reach the later key levels with the help of the 'How To Win At Pac-Man' book. You can play the game online here... freepacman.org

This is the first video I have ever seen showing the 'SCL Unicorn' computer - an officially licensed BBC Micro sold in India. This one looks in great condition. I've no idea if it is working, I just stumbled across the video and there was no further information about it!

Are you old enough to know what this is? Very satisfying removing this...

In Germany my job title was 'Software-Entwickler', I rather like the sound of that. This article was in the June 2001 'PC Games Hardware' magazine. It covered the Intel Pentium 4 demo I was working on at Rage Software that featured a real-time NURBs based renderer.

The amazingly talented LEGO City Undercover team at TT Fusion. Great working with such awesome people.

If I had the space, and spare cash, these are four of the retro computers I'd love to have set-up and ready to use. What four computers would you choose - 1970s/80s only!

I have just published a new GitHub repository entitled 'ExileArchives'. This contains 9 pre-release versions of the BBC Mico game Exile. I recently re-archived these from the original disks that were sent to Superior Software BITD. Read more about their history here:- github.com/KevEdwards/E...

There's almost nothing remaining of the abandoned Playstation game 'Sprial Saga'. Software Creations began work on this game in late 1995. After many months of development it was cancelled/axed. Here a some of the development files/folders from a very early, incomplete version - May 1996.

These are the original BBC Micro 'Knight Lore' player sprites and objects from Paul Proctor's development disks. They show the character graphic and mask. The mask is used to retain the background image around the player character. The software sprite routine does ( background AND mask ) OR graphic.