Sunday, March 29, 2026

SEGA

I assumed SEGA was going to be easy. I sat down with the expectation that I'd have a couple of addresses to check out and then I could move on, job done. I wallowed in my ignorance. What is there to say about SEGA's presence in the UK? Megadrive, Saturn, Dreamcast? That's it, isn't it? Obviously the answer is no. I was dealing with two separate SEGAs and nine addresses after a couple of hours of basic research on Companies House. Plus, I needed not to forget about SEGA World London, and another one in Bournemouth, and Virgin Mastertronic. Pass the aspirin.

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Mike Andrews Meets The Computer Game Stars

Riverside, BBC2's weekly magazine programme for young people covered music, arts, fashion, and style. In it's third and final series, 24 October 1983, it turned its gaze on the burgeoning software industry and asked; are computer game programmers the new rock stars? Mike Andrews went to Liverpool to find out and spoke to the team at Imagine Software. [1

Sunday, March 1, 2026

Rage Software

I got an email from Jake Smith in December 2024. He'd gone for a casual interview with the Rage managing director Paul Finnegan, back in 1993/94. They chatted about design and using Photoshop, and what skills they were looking for from people who wanted to start a career in games development. Jake even included an address and a scan of Paul Finnegan's business card. "This is great", I thought, "I wonder who Rage Software were?"