His own dental problems served as inspiration for the great John Gibson in his debut with the #ZxSpectrum (still just 16 Kb), a computer he had never touched before and which he learned to program in two months, if I recall correctly.

Mined Out was one of the last commercially released games for the #ZXSpectrum made entirely in BASIC. The author used his mother as a beta tester: she would play, and whenever she managed to master a level, he would add a new one slightly harder than the last.

The most commercially successful game in the late Dob Priestley’s career was this one. It sold 250,000 copies. #zxspectrum

The first office of #OceanSoftware was this huge warehouse on the banks of the River Irwell in #Manchester, which had previously belonged to a greek shipping company. #DavidWard established the company headquarters there just to highlight it as the city's only software house.

#PeterHarrap wrote Monty Mole as a tribute to his father, who was a miner, and as a reflection of the british mining protests against Margaret Thatcher’s neoliberal policies. It sold 20,000 copies in just 6 weeks. #ZxSpectrum #GremlinGraphics #MadeInSheffield

#ZxSpectrum #Retrogaming I went for years without knowing that *#RogueTrooper* was a British comic from the early ’80s, and that the game came about because #Piranha belonged to the publisher #MacMillan, which held the rights. The game follows the 3D trend of the era and is decent, though far from mind-blowing.