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    GAMING LEGENDS WE’VE LOST

    Dec 23, 2021 2 minutes

    In recent times, the retro gaming community has lost some phenomenally talented people. Game designer Bernie Drummond, Imagine Software cofounder David Lawson, PR veteran Jonathan Fargher and prominent ZX Spectrum enthusiast Darren Pearcy have all sadly passed away. Yet their lives and work will be long remembered.

    Bernie Drummond was the artist behind a string of classic 8-bit games and . He deliberately failed his art CSE, believing formal tuition to be a waste of time. But, by doing things his own way, he developed a style of isometric 3D that improved graphically on previous attempts, most notably Ultimate’s .

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