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]
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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?"
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