Gamers 2: Ghosts in the Machine: The Golden Age of Micros

Gamers 2: Ghosts in the Machine: The Golden Age of Micros

The secrets of the twenty micro computers that revolutionised the Golden Age of video gaming. Their remarkable stories told for the very first time in the words of the ghosts in the machine. Written by the founder of the British computer games industry. Mel Croucher is the acknowledged founder of the British computer games industry. Originally an architect, he moved into gaming "as a deep fake to force my music on the public." Three-time winner of the Game Of The Year Award, he pioneered radio broadcasts of computer software, geocache gaming, in-game voice artists, interactive soap opera, real-world adventure quests, adware product placement, the first computer-generated movie, the first AI virtual companion and the first million-user viral marketing campaign. He is the author of text books, technical manuals, fiction and non-fiction, and more than a thousand of his columns, investigations and cartoon strips have appeared in print over six decades.