User:Slobberdan

My interests are in video games, the video game industry and video game development. The period I cover would be from 80's through till today mostly on games developed and/or published in the UK and US.

To that end, it's a period I grew up as a gamer and budding programmer and I often found myself more interested in the stories behind development as much as the games themselves. I was a massive fan of the work of several notables and would actively follow any snippets of news about them in the gaming magazines of the day. This stems from my interest in Atari VCS and no doubt Activision's efforts to actual promote individuals - I thought it quite fascinating to read about the person behind the titles and who they were. I had aspirations.

For my own dabbling and gaming, I was focused on the Z80 machines such as the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC and at that time I would argue 'my computer is better than yours' as per my interest in those platforms. I was however eventually asked to author a game for the Commodore 64 and I realized I had been mistaken in all but a personal dislike for chunkier graphics and a color palette :-). In 2014, I re-approached this topic and put time into the research answering the question as to what the best computer of the period actually was.  The answer...is a secret, although if I ever have enough material I may eventually publish the findings in some kind of all around love letter to ALL 80's and 90's gaming hardware.

I am mostly interested in adding sourced nuggets of missing information to existing articles and improving upon poorly sourced articles.