British computer games industry history on channel 5

[Philip Green]

Brits Who Made The Modern World showing on five

Time: 19:30 to 20:00 (BST).
When: Friday 22nd August on five

The documentary series looking at the untold stories of British
scientific innovations focuses on the development of Britain's 1.4
billion pound computer game industry. In the early 1980s, two
pioneering Cambridge undergraduates set out to achieve the seemingly
impossible task of developing the world's first 3-D computer game.

(Information from www.digiguide.com)

[grou...@googlemail.com]

In message <48a5f046$0$7469$ba62...@nova.planet.nl>
Philip Green <philip...@kpnplanet.nl> wrote:

Good job they made of it I thought. At the end he says the game came
about because two students "dared to dream the impossible". Salutary
lesson there for the ongoing RISC OS community it seems. Not one that
has always been forgotten either, Revs, Exile, Karma.

Andrew
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[Rob White]

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grou...@googlemail.com wrote:

> Not one that has always been forgotten either, Revs, Exile, Karma.

<cough> Repton, Star Fighter.... <cough>

Cheers,
Rob
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[grou...@googlemail.com]

In message <31b573d...@aqus02.dsl.pipex.com>
Rob White <mfl...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> In message <c2eafad2...@no.reply>
> grou...@googlemail.com wrote:
>
>> Not one that has always been forgotten either, Revs, Exile, Karma.
>
> <cough> Repton, Star Fighter.... <cough>
>

I'm talking about revolutionary games in terms of not "ticking boxes"
as they put it in the documentary. e.g. Revs, The Sentinel.

Andrew

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