{"id":4438,"date":"2020-06-18T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2020-06-18T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T19:28:12","slug":"steve-marsden-and-dave-cooke-lincolnshire-echo-snippet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/18\/steve-marsden-and-dave-cooke-lincolnshire-echo-snippet\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Marsden and Dave Cooke &#8211; Lincolnshire Echo Snippet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lincolnshire Echo article featuring Steve Marsden and Dave Cooke who were developing Costa Capers for Firebird &#8211; Telecomsoft&#8217;s software arm who were based in the West End of London just along from Stringfellows nightclub. The newspaper did a story and a competition to win a game. Steve Marsden posted this picture to his Facebook account saying &#8220;Do they even describe people as<em> computer supremos<\/em> anymore? Great times. Dave and I were in business together for almost 20 years and only this week we&#8217;ve been discussing electronics and software talking about collaborating again building a few gadgets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Steve and Dave would go onto be a satellite studio for Gremlin Graphics, called Gremlin Lincoln and developed games such as Blood Brothers and the brilliant Shadow of the Beast on 8-bit machines,<\/p>\n<p>Photo, courtesy: Steve Marsden<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/104489688_2018840104916893_2599943713274168740_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/104489688_2018840104916893_2599943713274168740_o-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/104489688_2018840104916893_2599943713274168740_o-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/104489688_2018840104916893_2599943713274168740_o-1024x776.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/104489688_2018840104916893_2599943713274168740_o-768x582.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/104489688_2018840104916893_2599943713274168740_o-1536x1164.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/104489688_2018840104916893_2599943713274168740_o-720x546.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/104489688_2018840104916893_2599943713274168740_o-236x179.jpg 236w, http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/104489688_2018840104916893_2599943713274168740_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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>A Lincolnshire Echo article featuring Steve Marsden and Dave Cooke who were developing Costa Capers for Firebird &#8211; Telecomsoft&#8217;s software arm who were based in the West End of London just along from Stringfellows nightclub. The newspaper did a story and a competition to win a game. Steve Marsden posted this picture to his Facebook account saying &#8220;Do they even describe people as computer supremos anymore? Great times. Dave and I were in business together for almost 20 years and only this week we&#8217;ve been discussing electronics and software talking about collaborating again building a few gadgets.&#8221; Steve and Dave would go onto be a satellite studio for Gremlin Graphics, called Gremlin Lincoln and developed games such as Blood Brothers and the brilliant Shadow of the Beast on 8-bit machines, Photo, courtesy: Steve Marsden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,66],"tags":[902,344,185,895,894,295,2058],"class_list":["post-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-magazines","tag-cooke","tag-dave","tag-david","tag-lincoln","tag-marsden","tag-steve","tag-telecomsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438","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=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}