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Britsoft: An Oral History
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Britsoft: An Oral History
A collective story of the early British games industry. Composed of interviews with 35 people who shaped the modern videogame, including David Braben (Elite), Peter Molyneux (Populous), Rob Hubbard (Commando) and Jeff Minter (Attack of the Mutant Camels), it documents a vibrant period of invention in Britain's cultural history.
Britsoft: An Oral History is a collective story of the early British games industry. Composed of interviews with thirty-five people who shaped the modern videogame.
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Britsoft: An Oral History documents a vibrant period of invention in Britain's cultural history—the start of a new form of entertainment, created on ZX Spectrums, Commodore 64s, Amigas and Atari STs, in bedrooms and living rooms.
Interviewees include: David Braben (Elite), Peter Molyneux (Populous), Rob Hubbard (Commando) and Jeff Minter (Attack of the Mutant Camels).
The book is a companion piece to the 2014 documentary, From Bedrooms to Billions, and draws from the hundreds of hours of interview footage to find new, untold stories, and craft an original narrative. Through the voices of programmers, musicians, journalists, and business people, it traces the making of games such as Dizzy, Elite, Paradroid, and Kick Off; and the birth of publishers, magazines, and software houses, from Codemasters to Zzap!64.
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ISBN: 9780957576827
Publisher: Read-Only Memory
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 18 August 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Read-Only Memory
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 160.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 1120g
Pages: 420
About the Author
Alex Wiltshire is a journalist and writer, and a former editor of Edge magazine. He edited Britsoft: An Oral History and Japansoft: An Oral History for Read-Only Memory, and is author of several books, including the bestselling Minecraft Blockopedia. He works as a publishing editor for developer Mojang, and among many other publications writes a column about game design for Rock Paper Shotgun. He lives in Bath, UK, with his wife and two children.
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