The Pop-Culture E-Zine
The BBC Archive is rich with gaming related content from the 80s! We wanted to share this particular video of the Darling family, better known as Codemasters, enjoying their dizzy-ing success in the video games industry. Ah, those were the times.
This originally aired on the BBC’s Breakfast Time segment on August 2, 1988!
source: BBC Archive
When we saw Codemasters’ thread on Twitter of all the relics they found in their vault, our knees buckled due to all of the nostalgia. Check out the classic games, consoles and peripherals they unearthed from their storage, some being over three decades old! We are well and truly intoxicated with nostalgia.
The gobsmackingly gorgeous Sega Saturn Development Unit. It’s MASSIVE!
Good luck fitting this SEGA Saturn in your TV cabinet. Egg for scale.
(this machine was used to ensure that games in development didn’t violate the Sega Memory usage guide) pic.twitter.com/pZaZCEHigN
— Codemasters (@Codemasters) November 8, 2019
source: Codemasters via Twitter
We (ms. ausretrogamer and I) were quite giddy when we saw the above tweet from the Oliver Twins! It’s not every day that you see your childhood game developer heroes talk about how they got started in the business of making games.
It is quite cool to see Philip and Andrew Oliver (aka: The Oliver Twins) use the opportunity of their ‘Let’s Play‘ video to talk about how they first got into video games and the skills required to create their first arcade game, Cavey, on the BBC Model B computer. Written in 100% Machine Code (6502 Assembler) around ’84/’85, the lads were only 16 years old! The game wasn’t published until a year later when they managed to get several games published by Players – the budget label of Interceptor Software. Press play and get a hit of nostalgia! Thank you Andrew and Philip!
source: Oliver Twins