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I don't remember that and I thought I'd worked on all of the soccer games up until UEFA Challenge. Google says that it did exist ... Now if you want to talk arcade machine we did have a Virtua Striker machine in the office for a while and that was awesome!

Programmer Phil Rankin on the Actua Soccer Tournament arcade machine prototype

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22.06.16

We used to do quite a lot of shows, ETCS and E3, and it might have been an ECTS in London and we had a carpeted booth, it was fairly conservative. We had Loaded on one of the screens and all of a sudden we couldn’t move. All because you could shoot and splat people. I did think at the time that we might have created a video nasty.

Patrick Phelan on Loaded

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13.06.16

"Tony, we've got Manchester United, SWIV, Lemmings - all these great Amiga conversions! What have they got? Nothing great. Mr Ploppy Goes Ping?!"

Matt Furnisss to a hesitant Tony Kavanagh at an Acorn Computer Show where Krisalis showcased their Archimedes games

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08.06.16

Phil Plunkett and Tommy Rolfs Interview

The Built to Play podcast, issue 63: “We’ve all seen movies adapted into games, but usually those movies are good,…

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08.06.16

My understanding was they bought everything, but then sold GTA on to Take2. They had no interest in such an adult title. I thought GTA 1 was finished, and we were working on GTA2 when it actually got sold - but I’m not 100% sure of the timeline….

Grand Theft Auto creator Mike Dailly on whether Gremlin could have owned the franchise

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08.06.16

[We wanted to] create a strong 'brand' character for the Amiga, as other platforms already had their own. And obviously to be a fun game. Initial design was a little more surreal, with very early design ideas/sketches/levels inspired by Dali, Picasso, M.C. Escher and the like.... but we went a different way in the final product.

Adrian Carless on the creation of Zool

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06.06.16

Everyone looked at genres in the market at that time, trying to come up with different ways and ideas of breaking into that genre, and certainly the racing genre was on fire. So I was trying to find a product that could break into that racing genre which could complete. The X220 was the first car that theoretically could do 220mph, it was British, and was this that and the other, and I didn’t think we stood a chance in hell of getting the licence, but we went and meet Jaguar and we got the licence which was fantastic.

Jeremy Heath-Smith, founder of Core Design on competing with Lotus

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04.06.16

I had known Gremlin and Ian Stewart for a while of course, and Jenny Richard’s who had been the buyer for Centresoft. We had also had some meetings about [...] using Ian’s in-house developed Nintendo dev kit. When things started falling around my ears in 1990, Ian and James North-Hearn were actually visiting to discuss development. Ian was a good egg and wanted to help, and being a canny businessman he saw an opportunity too. There was something in it for both of us really, always the best deal, so I moved to Sheffield as a consultant with a fairly open brief to look for opportunities to help build Gremlin.

David Martin, ex-Martech on joining Gremlin Graphics in 1990

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02.06.16

British companies have never been able to [...] leverage enough debt to compete. We are still told, are we not, not to live beyond our means? Don’t borrow more than you can pay back. The Americans are always in debt. Remember the British companies didn’t fail, they were always acquired by someone else.

Andy Payne, ex-Mastertrontic, UKIE, BAFTA, Creative Industries Council, on the demise of British games publishers.

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28.05.16

I was a big fan. One of the things I’ve always liked was knowing who made the games. I was always interested in the names, like Jeff Minter and of course Tony. There were a few other names and you used to dig those out and try and find out more about them: Who wrote this thing, who made this thing, how did they make it, and all that stuff I’ve always been interested in it - I’m still interested in that now – who really did what.

ZZap!64 and Games Industry legend Gary Penn on fellow legend Tony Crowther

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27.05.16