Interviews
Overwhelmingly, the main source of material for this book was a series of interviews conducted during 2011 and early 2012. In almost all cases where quotes are not credited in the text they have been taken from these interviews, although in a few instances, to avoid needless repetition, interviewees also gave permission to use material that they had published previously themselves, often on their own websites.
A number of existing interviews by third parties also proved useful, and are well worth exploring further:
A&B Computing magazine: Martin Edmondson and Nicholas Chamberlain interview, October 1987
Acorn Programs magazine: Geoff Crammond interviewed by Nicole Segre, June 1984
BBC website (www.bbc.co.uk): Toby Gard interviewed by Alfred Hermida, June 2004; Rick Dickinson interviewed by Stephen Tomkins, March 2011; Richard Altwasser and Rick Dickinson interviewed by Leo Kelion, April 2011
Bits Channel 4 website (www.channel4.com/bits/bitslater35elite1.htm, available as archive only): Ian Bell and David Braben answering questions, 2000
Bruce on Games website (www.bruceongames.com): Jez San interviewed by Bruce Everiss, August 2009
Crash magazine: Paul Anderson and Bruce Everiss interviewed by Roger Kean, December 1984; Peter Cooke interviewed by Sean Masterson, November 1985; Peter Cooke interviewed by Richard Eddy, July 1987; Chris and Tim Stamper interviewed by Roger Kean, April 1988
Edge magazine: Ian Bell and David Braben interview, September 2000; Mike Singleton interview, October 2000; Les Edgar and Peter Molyneux interview, March 2002; Julian Gollop interview, December 2003; Martin Edmondson interview, August 2011
Ellee Seymour blog (http://elleeseymour.com): Chris Curry interview, February 2012
Forbes website (www.forbes.com): Geoff Crammond interviewed by David Einstein, August 2000
Gamasutra website (www.gamasutra.com): Toby Gard interviewed by David Jenkins, October 1998; Dave Jones interviewed by Alistair Wallis, December 2006
Gamespy website (www.gamespy.com): Roy Trubsaw and Richard Bartle interviewed by David Cuciz, 2001
Giant Bomb website (www.giantbomb.com): Peter Molyneux interviewed by Patrick Klepek, April 2012
Guardian: David Darling interviewed by Bobbie Johnson, May 2008
Independent: Toby Gard interviewed by Johnny Davis, April 2004
Massively website (http://massively.joystiq.com): Richard Bartle interviewed by Justin Olivetti, April 2011
Observer: Sir Clive Sinclair interviewed by Simon Garfield, February 2010
Popular Computing Weekly magazine: David Potter interviewed by David Kelly, March 1983
Retro Gamer magazine: Mike Singleton interviewed by Chris Wild, May 2004; Geoff Crammond interviewed by Damien McFerran, 2009
Sinclair User magazine: Matthew Smith interviewed by Chris Bourne, December 1984; Sir Clive Sinclair interviewed by Graham Taylor, August 1986
Spong website (http://spong.com): Charles Cecil interview, November 2009
Stairway to Hell website (www.stairwaytohell.com): Sophie Wilson interviewed by Stuart Goodwin, 2007
Sunday Telegraph: Sir Clive Sinclair interviewed by Celia Walden, May 2010
Super Play magazine: David Darling interviewed by Matt Bielby, February 2003
Your Computer magazine: Tony Baden interviewed by Meirion Jones, August 1982
Your Spectrum magazine: David Potter interview, January 1984; Bruce Everiss interviewed by Paul Walton, June 1984
Broadcast documentaries and programmes
Anything We Can Do: ‘There’s a Micro in That’, Channel 4, 1985
Brits Who Made The Modern World: ‘Computer Games’, Raw TV for Channel 5, 2008
Commercial Breaks, BBC,1984
Horizon: ‘Now the Chips Are Down’, BBC, 1978
Horizon: ‘Clive Sinclair: The Anatomy of an Inventor’, BBC, 1989
ITN News at Ten: Sinclair C5 launch, ITV, January 1985
Making of the 7th Guest, Virgin Games, 1992
The Saturday Show, ITV, 1983
Thumb Candy, Talkback for Channel 4, 2000
Time Shift: ‘Hard Drive Heaven’, BBC, 2004
Visions, BBC, 1990
Public talks and lectures
David Allen, Christopher Curry, Steve Furber, Hermann Hauser, Nick Toop and Sophie Wilson, speaking at the Beeb@30 event, March 2012
Richard Bartle lecture to Trinity University, April 2010
Ian Bell and David Braben, speaking at the Nottingham Game City Festival, October 2009
David Braben – A BAFTA life in Video Games, BAFTA, September 2009
David Braben lecture to the Game Developers Conference, March 2011
Peter Molyneux lecture to the Games Developers Conference, March 2011
Matthew Smith speaking at CGE UK, July 2004
Matthew Smith interviewed by Paul Drury at the Screenplay Festival, February 2005
Books
Richard A. Bartle, Designing Virtual Worlds (New Riders Publishing, 2004)
Tom Chatfield, Fun Inc.: Why Games Are the 21st Century’s Most Serious Business (Virgin Books, 2010)
Douglas Coupland and Kip Ward, Lara’s Book: Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon (Prima Publishing, 1998)
Ray Curnow and Susan Curran, The Silicon Factor: Living with the Microprocessor (National Extension College, 1980)
Christopher Evans, The Mighty Micro: The Impact of the Micro-Chip Revolution (Gollancz, 1979)
Tim Hartnell (ed.), 49 Explosive Games for the ZX Spectrum (Interface Publications, 1983)
Francis Spufford, Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin (Faber and Faber, 2003)
Other published sources
Prospero, ‘Acorn Computers expected to stage a good recovery this year’, Herald, December 1984
BBC Continuing Education Television: Computer Literacy Project (BBC, 1981)
C5 Launch press release, Sinclair Vehicles, January 1985
The Face magazine (EMAP, June 1997)
ZX Spectrum review, Computing Today, August 1982
Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, various rulings, 1991 to 1998
Simon Dally obituary, Independent, March 1989
Towards Computer Literacy: The BBC Computer Literacy Project 1979-1983 (BBC, 1983)
Company and Personal websites
Bruce on Games – Bruce Everiss’s personal website (www.bruceongames.com)
The Complete History of DMA and the History of Lemmings by Mike Dailly (www.javalemmings.com/DMA)
Computer History Museum/The Centre for Computing History (www.computerhistory.org)
Dundee Computer Games Cluster (found within www.idea.gov.uk)
MUSE (www.mud.co.uk)
Official Carmageddon Community (www.carmageddon.com)
The Oliver Twins (www.olivertwins.com)
QBlog – Richard Bartle’s personal blog (www.youhaventlived.com)
Where is Matthew Smith? (www.carlylesmith.karoo.net/spectrum/matsmith)