“I USED TO BORROW A SPECTRUM AT THE WEEKENDS FROM MR MICRO AND PLAYED GAMES ON IT, AND SABRE WULF WAS MY FAVOURITE”
Greg Duddle
It’s often forgotten that the UK home-computer boom of the early Eighties coincided with a recession. This general decline in economic activity, coupled with the fact that home-computer games were easily copied onto cheap blank cassettes, gave the emerging British games industry a major problem – piracy.
As one of the most popular new Spectrum developers of 1983, Ashby Computers & Graphics felt this drain on its profits more than most. And after releasing six hit titles on its Ultimate label in its first six months of trading, nothing more was heard from the firm until the spring of 1984. Even then, the, and the fact that it would cost the then princely sum of £9.95.