NU WAVE SOFTWARE
Clem Chambers launched Computer Rentals Limited in 1982. “I started it after I left school. I didn’t get the grades to go study industrial archaeology (thank goodness). I rented the cheapest office possible across the road from where the Kray Twins were brought up, over a tailor’s shop on Whitechapel Road.” The King’s Yard address became home to The Zen Room programming team, and the name changed to CRL. Then Clem saw a game that inspired him.
“The whole computer game thing was so new it all felt experimental to me. Successful games were often totally unique, so it seemed that was an exciting tack to take for games and one that would have an audience,” says Clem. “ by Automata influenced me that a game could be wildly experimental and still be a success. To do something first and unique excited my creativity, which it always has and still does. Nothing beats being on the bleeding edge. It’s only there you can move fast, have a clean sheet to work with and almost by chance come up with
