{"id":3644,"date":"2017-04-04T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2023-05-07T17:32:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T16:32:15","slug":"first-class-with-the-shoe-people-zx-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/04\/first-class-with-the-shoe-people-zx-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"First Class with the Shoe People (ZX Spectrum)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The brainchild of Gremlin&#8217;s Licencing Director Dave Martins, First Class with The Shoe People was an educational tie-in with the TV series aimed at children aged between 4 and 6.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Fowler wrote the lead versions on Amiga &amp; ST, and Tony Reeves did the conversions to 8-bit micros. Phil Rankin did the PC version once the 16-bit versions were finished and Damien Hibbard did the printer routines on the Amiga; both vital but not the bulk of the program development.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as with Gremlin&#8217;s previous two titles aimed at children (Beaver Bob in Dam Trouble and Tinderbox), First Class was short lived with this single title &#8211; even on the GBH Gold budget label.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_633.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3645\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_633-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_633-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_633-768x1157.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_633-680x1024.jpg 680w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_633-720x1085.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_633-236x356.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3646\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_631-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_631-289x300.jpg 289w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_631-768x798.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_631-986x1024.jpg 986w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_631-720x748.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_631-236x245.jpg 236w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_631.jpg 1643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_632.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_632-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_632-294x300.jpg 294w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_632-768x783.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_632-1004x1024.jpg 1004w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_632-720x734.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_632-236x241.jpg 236w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_632-68x68.jpg 68w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/img_scan_632.jpg 1605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=hardistymark\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brainchild of Gremlin&#8217;s Licencing Director Dave Martins, First Class with The Shoe People was an educational tie-in with the TV series aimed at children aged between 4 and 6. Martin Fowler wrote the lead versions on Amiga &amp; ST, and Tony Reeves did the conversions to 8-bit micros. Phil Rankin did the PC version once the 16-bit versions were finished and Damien Hibbard did the printer routines on the Amiga; both vital but not the bulk of the program development. Unfortunately, as with Gremlin&#8217;s previous two titles aimed at children (Beaver Bob in Dam Trouble and Tinderbox), First Class was short lived with this single title &#8211; even on the GBH Gold budget label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,47,64,4,235,60,9],"tags":[1766,344,185,1767,2038,1752,397,1122,738,1770,345,1769,1118,2039,1768],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-12","category-atari-st","category-inlays","category-games","category-media","category-platform","category-year","tag-class","tag-dave","tag-david","tag-first","tag-fowler","tag-graeme","tag-hibbard","tag-ing","tag-licence","tag-license","tag-martin","tag-people","tag-rankin","tag-reeves","tag-shoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4721,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/4721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}