carmel_andrews Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 for example Herbert Wright...Logotron/Xor Mike Singleton...Doomdarks revenge, midwinter etc Rafael Cecco...Exolon/Cybernoid 1 & 2 and other hewson games Mark or Mike Cale...system 3 (IK/IK+/Bangkock knights etc) John M Philips... Impossaball/Nebulas/Ammo track David Broadhurst... Ghosts/goblins, ghouls/ghosts David Threlfall...Bubble Bobble Doug Neubauer/Fernando Herrera...Star Raiders (Boulderdash A8 version *FH) Donna Bailey ...Centipede (Coin op version) Carol Shaw (me thinks)...River Raid (c64/A8) Chris Gray/grey... Boulderdash and Whirlinurd and others Greg Christensen/son...Caverns or Mars 1 & 2 Anne Westfall/John freeman (freefall assoc's)...Archon/Archon 2 Bill Budge....Raster Blaster and Pinball construction Kit/set Paul Woakes... Mercenary/Damocles/Encounter (Novagen) Mathew Trimby...Slingshot/Crystal raiders (A8) Anita Sinclair...Magnetic Scrolls (myth, corruption, fish, the pawn, jinxster etc) Steve Bak (can't remember the s/w house) gold runner, karate kid, dogs of wars etc Tony Crowther...Any of the monty mole series of games Chris Murray (tynesoft/cognito/zeppelin)...Mirax force, transmuter, who dares wins (with Brian joplin) all A8 Brian Joplin (as above), Zybex, WDW, Speed ace, Draconus etc David fox... Koronis rift/Ball blazer/ rescue on fractulas etc (activision/lucasfilm) The Carver Brothers/twins (bruce/roger)....Raide over moscow (also known as raid) beach head series, leaderboard Geoff Brown ...Founder of US Gold Ed Saldo/Salvo.... Skeet shoot/Space chase etc and others on VCS (games by appolo/apollo) David Braben....Acornsoft's Elite (BBC) Dominic Wheatley/Mark Strachan...founders of Domark Lyle Rains....Atari (had the idea that led to 'Asteroids') John Palevic/Palevich...Dandy Dungeons, a precursor to 'gauntlet' (A8) Chris Crawford....Eastern Fornt (APX/Atari) and Balance of Power '90 (Mindscape) Sid Meier/Bill Stealey...Microprose (f15 strike eagle, Silent service, acrojet, gunship, solo flight etc) Ed Rotberg...Battlezone (Coin op version) Atari Gary Kitchen, John Van Ryzin, David Crane, Bob Whitehead etc...Early Activision Programmers Al Alcorn... Built and designed Atari's 'pong' coin op game Tony Rainbird... Founder of Rainbird software Ed logg...Programmer and designer of Asteroid's and Gauntlet (Coin op version) Atari/Atari games The Austin/Austen Brothers...Level 9 (Adventure games) software Steve Russell...Space War (original text version) ...any more for any more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusk2600 Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 i will be willing to bet some are deceased... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Collect (and read) all the issues of Retro Gamer magazine, and you'll find the answer for some of those names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_ Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 David Braben´s running Frontier Developments: http://www.frontier.co.uk/home.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybergoth Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 The Carver Brothers/twins (bruce/roger)....Raide over moscow (also known as raid) beach head series, leaderboard Bruce Carver died last year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc74 Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 He's not on your list, but you might like to know that Speccy programming legend Joffa Smifff (Hypersports, Green Beret, Cobra, etc) is actually writing a new Spectrum game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted October 12, 2006 Author Share Posted October 12, 2006 here's a few more Paul Nichols....Spindizzy Jeff 'the yak' Minter...'mutant camel' series, colourspace, trip o tron , llama tron etc Dan Bunton (also known as Danielle Bunton)...Various US A8/c64 games William Mattaca/Mattaka.... Shamus/Shamus 2 Steve Coleman...Rainbow Walker and Ninja (mastertronic/sculptured software) Philip price...Alternate Reality series (did he also do 'tail of beta lyrae') John Williams.... Jet boot jack and timeslip and other English software titles (a8/c64) Tony Goacher/Goucher...Warcopter/Mad Jax and various A8 games (Red Rat) Steven Mc illwie (or whatever his family name was)...various budget label A8 games (very crap) Howard Warshaw....for the crapiest game Atari ever put out on their own platform(s)....ET John Brandwood or Brandfoot...Various 8it games for Ocean (UK) ...now owned by the infogrammes/atari juggernault I was told that Greg Christensen (Caverns of mars 1/2) had a hand in programming the A8 version of last starfighter/star raiders 2 Jez San (and argonalt software)...Starglider 1/2 Rob Fulop....Demon attack and other vcs games for imagic (US) Steven Langren/landrun...Various Atari lynx games (epyx/atari) Steven Hales... Fort Appocoypse and Dimension X (A8) Stavros Faustolas....Quedox/quedex...Thalamus (c64) Warren Robinnet....Adventure (VCS)...also coded the first 'easter egg' in a computer/video game Any more for any more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p_b Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Danielle or Dan Bunten unfortunately died Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Have you ever heard of this little thing called Google? It would give you the information you want on about half of the people on your lists within a few minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_ Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Howard Warshaw....for the crapiest game Atari ever put out on their own platform(s)....ET I *WAS* going to help you out further, but after this....sheesh! Use google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybergoth Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Have you ever heard of this little thing called Google? It would give you the information you want on about half of the people on your lists within a few minutes. Actually it wouldn't, because of all the errors and false spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 I just saw this and was very sad about it. https://twitter.com/JazRignall/status/961319866614583296 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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