sharopolis Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 I was just wondering, were any 2600 titles made by UK companies? The UK has always had it's fair share of games developers, producing big titles for many systems, but when it comes to the 2600 there are no names I recognise. Are there any? or did VCS development pass the uk by? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 I think by and large it did. We were far more interested in computers than consoles right up until the release of the SNES. Be nice if there was at least one UK developer, I wonder if one will turn up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fretwobbler Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 Blame this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 Hey, Sir Clive had it good back in the day. Sinclair Research was kinda like Atari was in the US -- complete with a few duds along the way. (C4? QL? :-)) Not that I'm knocking the QL -- it was cool, but the OS was bizarre. No doubt though, the Speccy 0wned all in merry old England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spirantho Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 (C4? QL? :-)) You're right about the QL - but I don't think Uncle Clive ever invented High Explosives did he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cootster Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 Thought Bit Corp was an UK firm . . . What were they? German? Aussie? Or am I correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayhem Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 Proper games development didn't really take off in this country until computers came out in force (early 80s). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saikyo Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 Thought Bit Corp was an UK firm . . . What were they? German? Aussie? Or am I correct? They could be Brazillian I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindfield Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 You're right about the QL - but I don't think Uncle Clive ever invented High Explosives did he? Sorry -- I meant the Sinclair C5. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eckhard Stolberg Posted October 2, 2004 Share Posted October 2, 2004 Bit Corp was from Taiwan. As for 2600 games made by UK companies: In the early 1990s Salu Ltd released some games in Europe. I think they were from the UK. I'm not sure if any of their games were actually programmed in Britain though. Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharopolis Posted October 3, 2004 Author Share Posted October 3, 2004 Well I never, any homebrews? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cootster Posted October 3, 2004 Share Posted October 3, 2004 I wouldn't mind having a C5 to mod and soup up, actually . . . Not a stupid idea, just about 20 years ahead of its time . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted October 3, 2004 Share Posted October 3, 2004 Well I never, any homebrews? There are many homebrew authors in Europe (Thomas Jentzsch, Manuel Rotcshkar, Piero Cavina, Simon Quernhorst, and Fabrizio Zavagli) but I don't know of any in the UK off the top of my head. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moppetkid Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 As for 2600 games made by UK companies: In the early 1990s Salu Ltd released some games in Europe. I think they were from the UK. I'm not sure if any of their games were actually programmed in Britain though. Salu's Acid Drop was definaetly programmed in the UK. Several years ago I had brief email contact with one of the guys who worked on some of the artwork for the game. Hint: The Programmer and Artists are credited on the Acid Drop box which will help with tracking them down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 Well I was going to say My Golf by HES, but it turns out they're not British. I guess I always assumed they were because they distributed so many Llamasoft games. However, I did discover that even though My Golf is in AtariAge's database, searching for it yields no hits, either on "My Golf" or listing all games by HES. I only found the AtariAge page through Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eckhard Stolberg Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 Acid Drop and Pick'n'Pile were both programmed by Dennis Kiss. I suppose they were both programmed in the UK then? Or were only the graphics artists for Acid Drop from the UK? My Golf is a PAL only game. To find it in the AtariAge data base, you have to set the region to "All" in the search dialog. It defaults to finding North American releases only, because it was voted to be that way by AtariAge users in the early days. But as it seems the results of that poll have changed in favour of showing all results over time. Maybe the default region setting in the search feature should be changed to avoid confusions like this in the future. Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 Maybe the default region setting in the search feature should be changed to avoid confusions like this in the future. Amen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Player Posted October 4, 2004 Share Posted October 4, 2004 Well I never, any homebrews? There are many homebrew authors in Europe (Thomas Jentzsch, Manuel Rotcshkar, Piero Cavina, Simon Quernhorst, and Fabrizio Zavagli) but I don't know of any in the UK off the top of my head. ..Al Alex Herbert is from the UK. And his uncompleted game Man Goes Down is incredibly addictive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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