heath-smith – The Gremlin Graphics Archive

Jeremy Heath-Smith

Gremlin’s Sales Executive Jeremy Heath-Smith left the company in 1988 and took the Derby studio with him to form Core…

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26.04.17

Real fun - just a bunch of us, pretty much left to ourselves, making games and all knocking off like regular people at the end of the day - I can't recall an all-nighter. weekend work or 'Crunch' in those early days. There was an air of gentle banter, with the lovely Greg Holmes as ringleader - we all called him 'Dad' and his gentle, absurd Northern humour underpinned everything.

Simon Phipps - on those early days at Gremlin Derby

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25.06.16

Steve Marsden – Gremlin Lincoln

Steve Marsden and David Cooke demonstrated their sublime Spectrum coding talents when Hewson Consultants published their beautifully crafted Jet Set…

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27.05.16

The first game we [published] was Corporation, which was a joint venture [with Bill Allen and Kevin Bulmer’s Birmingham-based Dimension Creative Designs]. You could scan your own photograph and put it in the game. It was awesome. We sold an absolute bucket load and made a ton of money. That then put us on the path to publish our own software.

Jeremy Heath-Smith, founder of Core Design on starting the studio

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26.05.16