Tag: Stampers
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Tooling up
The Collected Works From eBay, I bought the Collected Works. This was a 1988 compilation of all the Ultimate Play the Game games, except for Underwurlde, for some reason. The four games released under the US Gold banner were also not included, but rightly or wrongly, they were not regarded as Tim and Chris Stamper…
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Later RARE
A couple of months later, with our degrees in hand, one in Computer Science and the other in Professional Media, we headed down to London to attend a Computer Show, wishing to see Rare. Here the dreams would surely come true! I met a Lead Dev, and to say it didn’t go well was a…
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Early RARE
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…