Imagine software - the meltdown
I'm a wee bit miffed that, after posting the online punchup between Bruce Everiss and, well, the rest of the world, that it made the newsletter without a credit!

But I'm a professional. I rise above it.

So here for your viewing pleasure is the original documentary where the baliffs wade in, much to the delight of the visiting camera crew.

Quote of the year: "But - my alternative jacket is in there..."
( Bad Horsey, Mon 28 Apr 2008, 13:27, Reply)

Its a great documentary that - the very idea that in 1983 or whatever people would pay £40 (which I spose inflation adjusted is about £100-£150) for a spectrum game rather than £1.99.

Thats more than Neo Geo money!! (although later Sega did it with the VR chip and Nintendo with the FX chip to be fair).
(Mster, Mon 28 Apr 2008, 13:45, Reply)

I saw the mention of The Beehive in Swinton
in that original Bruce Everiss post. I did actually go there once, about a week before it got raided. It must have been about 1986 and was the most blatant display of piracy I have ever seen. A pub back-room full of blokes swapping disks full of cracked games for Amigas and STs.

The story of Imagine never fails to amuse me. What the hell were they thinking?

Edit: I had a copy of Alchemist, too.
( Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 Apr 2008, 14:39, Reply)

I used to beer up in the Beehive in the early nineties
Crap! I missed the free games ;)
( Monty Propps, Mon 28 Apr 2008, 14:46, Reply)

Excellent
I watched the whole thing, jolly interesting, Imagine certainly fucked up with Bandersnatch.
( pobblepop, Mon 28 Apr 2008, 14:43, Reply)

That was an exciting bit of 'kit'
they had plugged into the interface port on that ZX Spectrum. I wonder how they were planning to condense all that?
( Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 Apr 2008, 14:51, Reply)

Wow
thank for that.
really interesting.
Some of it was a bit like watching 'Look around you'
(Hoof Hearted, Tue 29 Apr 2008, 14:37, Reply)