Iowe a huge debt of gratitude to Martyn Carroll, the first editor of this marvellous magazine. In 2004, I’d spotted a small news item in the British journalism trade magazine, Press Gazette, heralding the first issue of Retro Gamer and I immediately approached Martyn with an idea: an article about Dizzy.
I’d freelanced as a writer before, for and , both in my teenage years. From memory, it had taken about 12 months of pestering (and, believe me,’s editor Dave Golder to cave in and give me an opportunity. When approaching Martyn, I didn’t have the energy for such a pursuit again and decided it would be ‘one approach, one rejection’ and that would be that.
