Fahnn wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2019 4:16 pm
I've just been looking at Microsphere's games and David Reidy is only credited on the Skool games, Contact Sam Cruise and a book, but didn't he program all their stuff, Wheelie and Skyranger and so on? Actually none of the other releases have author credits as far as I can see (unless I'm doing it wrong).
I was investigating this a bit. The information out there is pretty confusing.
The website Spong (
https://spong.com/people/8727/David-S-Reidy) states:
David S Reidy's first video game work that SPOnG is aware of is the 1983 title, "Wheelie" (Spectrum 48K) as Lead Artist.
Full credits on that site:
Lead Programmer: David S Reidy
Lead Artist: David S Reidy
Packaging/Manual Design: Keith Warrington
I don't think this is a reliable source of information, but Reidy as the main artist makes sense, since Keith Warrington was not involved in graphics until Skool Daze.
I also found an Hungarian magazine:
http://sinclair.hu/kiadvany_download.ph ... Zci2U9NpZm
The translation reads: "David Reidy says, "Wheelie broke very slowly, but we sold it for more than 12 months, which is remarkable." The games were still made in the simple roles already outlined, and
the graphics of Wheelie were entirely David's work, but he was waving an ambitious plan that he could no longer have as a sow graphic. Well, I had a really knowledgeable man who could have had a choice, like Keith, who had been working for them for a long time."
That seems to be part of the Sinclair User #36 article:
https://archive.org/details/sinclair-user-magazine-036 , but I can't find that part!
PD: don't let me start about the Computer History page (
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/3791/Wheelie/) that has an "E J Estcourt" as the author, which sounds very similar to "M J Estcourt", author of Deathchase and Full Throttle.
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