Back in the early Eighties, when the bedroom coder revolution was gaining momentum, a young Steve Howard spotted an ad in the local Job Centre that piqued his interest. Having already developed his first game on the Sharp MZ-80K, Steve wanted a job before he went to university and from the advert, successfully applied for a company called Software Workshop. When Steve started he immediately struck up a friendship with an artist who also worked there called Paul Smith. “Paul was a bit annoyed that we did all the work for a relative pittance while our boss got the big money, so he persuaded me to leave, and we would create games and get to keep all the money,” Steve says, reflecting back.
