Jason Kingsley’s first encounter with computers was at school in Leicestershire in the Seventies. “It was a huge industrial-looking computer, programmed using punched tape and it sat in a corner classroom,” says Jason. “You could take programs on rolled-up tape in your blazer pocket, and the little punched holes were much sought after as kids could scatter them around the school!” The Kingsley family’s first home computer was built by Jason’s younger brother Chris. “Chris built an Edukit, which had something like 256 bytes of memory. He soldered it all together and got it working, but we didn’t really do much with it.”
Their first ready-made home computer was a Commodore PET, followed later by an Atari 800, which was their first dedicated gaming machine. Jason played a number of early classics on the Atari, including and a number of Activision titles based on the early arcade games. “Even back then, both Chris and I always felt that we could make games,” he says. “Weirdly, it never crossed our minds that we couldn’t. The naivety and enthusiasm
