Sometime before the Ultimate demise, the Stampers had already decided to switch gaming platforms to Nintendo’s Entertainment System and had formed a separate company called RARE – Research And Reverse Engineering.
From here Rare and I departed company, as I also switched platforms too, but to the Commodore Amiga instead.
In 1992, my girlfriend (now my wife), whom I had started to see, was an art student who lived just outside Ashby-De-La-Zouch. On a visit she introduced me to Ashby’s one interesting feature, its ruined castle. Much like now, I recounted my story of Ultimate and Rare. As we walked around Ashby on that Sunday afternoon, I remember hoping to casually bump into the Stampers, perhaps grabbing a pint of milk… fat chance of that really, as they’d moved to Twycross, but anyway!
Here I talked about how I intended to work for Rare once I’d finished my degree…