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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Digital Illusions and Sensible Software: Beginnings

For those of you interested in the early years of the greatest games companies of the Amiga era, check out the following youtube videos.
The first, dating from 1994, takes a look at a young Digital Illusions, and features interviews with Andreas Axelsson, Olof Gustafsson and Joakim Wejdemar. It's fantastic seeing DI when they were a small outfit- worlds apart from today's DICE. Just remember to turn on close captions/subtitles by clicking on the arrow at the bottom right of the video (just under "YouTube" - make sure you start playing the video first).

The second video features an interesting interview with Jon Hare, co-founder of Sensible Software. Sensible created many brilliant games for the C64 and Amiga, including Parallax, Sensible Soccer, SEUCK and Cannon Fodder. The interview is quite well done, and reveals how Sensible was founded by two guys on UK Govt. weekly grant of £40!
Ah the memories...

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