User talk:Multi Retro Man

Multi Retro Man - about me
Hi,

Firstly, I thank you for taking the time to read this and would like to explain a little bit about myself and what I did, do and plan to do.

I have been a big fan of gaming from when I was young, my earliest memories of gaming was Space Chaser in a local club and this was replaced with other games such as Space Invaders, Pacman and Donkey Kong.

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K rubber keyed one and it came with a six pack game compilation and the first game I loaded was Horace Goes Skiing and the first 2 games I bought were Apple Jam by DK'Tronics and Chuckie Egg by A&F Software (I still have these games and all the 3 Horace games).

I have always enjoyed creating designs for things, one early thing I did was draw my Skoda Rapid 136 car that I used to own, on an Amiga and more recently I have been designing t-shirts, hoodies, mugs etc. using new designs, one of my latest being Trapped a 3D version of the maze and the ghosts are trapped in a larger central home with Pacman on one side and Ms Pacman on the other, looking at the ghosts and the power pills have a bright glow to them.

One of my greatest things, apart from my children and family, is I designed a Smartwatch watchface for Clive Townsend for Saboteur and Saboteur 2 (he used the watchface to assist with the game) and as a reward, he sent me a signed Saboteur poster praising my watchfaces, which is framed in our front room and to me it's priceless.

I have done various layouts for MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) based on the old battery powered desktop games from the 80s, fruit machine layouts for MFME, which have been praised by the ones who have been doing them for years, such as Dave Pook.

More recently, I decided to write a book all about emulation and although it's a niche market, I felt that I needed to put my creative skills to use and write a book that I knew I would finish (in the past I've written some stories but never actually got round to finishing them).

I have done several YouTube videos, some have had over 20K views, and enjoy creating them. They are about emulation, how to fix problems with cars, phones etc and one about one of my bucketlist ticks, my own arcade machine. :)