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Interesting, cheers. I did a brief stint at Software Studios / Electric Dreams (in Southampton) — who were owned by Activision — in the late 80s. And then I di
by jimsmart 4y ago
Interesting, cheers.
I did a brief stint at Software Studios / Electric Dreams (in Southampton) — who were owned by Activision — in the late 80s. And then I did some work (via Images Software) for Activision (in Reading), a little later in the 80s. Briefly met quite a lot of well-known (better known than I, anyhow) devs during that time.
I think I recall meeting Andy Glaister at some point (though not at Activision), but I might be wrong: his name was often mentioned in our office because we (Images s/w) were dealing with PDS quite a lot. But if I did meet him, it was only very briefly, and he likely wouldn't remember me. Him and our boss (Karl Jefferies) seemed to have quite a few meetings.
I think the early / home computer games dev world was actually kinda quite small (in the UK), well, fairly tightly networked — lots of folk knew one another, or were just a couple of friend-network links away. It seemed quite commonplace to meet other devs, usually during what is now called 'crunch time' towards the end of a project, in the publisher's office. I still have memories of sleeping under various desks, in various offices, on various projects.
— Life is indeed weird!