Hello from a game dev(?) in England

[Mr_Nick666]

@worriedpixels

I’m rubbish: it didn’t occur to 19 year old me that 47 year old me would have liked it if he’d kept the Amiga 500+/1200 and all the things I created on it, along with all the PD disks etc. I don’t remember most of the PD stuff. I’ll have to have a YouTube session. Might treat myself to an A500 mini, but I know most of the games won’t have aged well. A lot of them were unfair or too hard. Often both. Try playing Project X now. It’s horrendously designed. I think the developers were just giving the player the middle finger the whole time they made this one. That, and it never occurring to devs back then that letting regular humans play their game before release might have been a good idea!

I think we’re all in that boat. I did keep my SAM Coupe (bet you’ve never even heard of that computer) and a bunch of disks. I did some commercial work on game graphics, back when it was alive, and kept a fairly big archive. A guy got in contact with me, from a magazine called “SAM Revival” and went mad for some of the stuff I had (including our beta test versions) and I even made the cover (issue 17)!.. The stuff I didn’t keep still keeps me awake at night…