Sometimes if you really are innocent enough, you can just get away with stuff!
So there I was running a computer games store, fresh out of University, first job I found -- well it found me really, since I was hanging out in the store, then doing Saturday work there whilst finishing my degree, I got offered the job of running it when the then Manager, Dave left… It was all a bit like being a character in the TV show SPACED really…
Anyway I had some chums who had 8bit machines, Kevin and John, and we talked the talk about making games, but we never walked the walk. Then one day our talk turned to action, we stated making a game, just for fun – Contagion, I have no idea how it started, I think we were abandoning a demo idea -- longest 8bit text scroller or the like and we fell into making a game. And then some how I wound up in the foyer of Atari UK, with a demo disc of Contagion and some screen mockups of Z Force, I walked out of Atari with a truly pathetic contract to develop two games for them -- but it was our break!
We feverishly finished Contagion, and got paid, we worked hard on Z Force, and as luck would have it we bumped into some other wannabe developers who were working for a POS merchandising company -- well one fella really -- Tony King (where are you now I wonder). And then I found myself in the offices of System 3 Software pitching for the Last Ninja II development contract – which we got, and then failed to produce!!! We had a one screen demo but by then Harlequin was taking over our lives and its chaos consumed us all!
Last Ninja II – for System 3 (Coming
Soon)