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CLIVE TOWNSEND

His name is one that will resonate with most ZX Spectrum fans in particular. Creator of the wonderful Saboteur games, Retro Gamer chats ninjas, rising robots, cataclysmic power cuts and more with Somerset’s most famous Speccy programmer Words by Graeme Mason

Having engendered a programmer’s mentality early on in his life, Clive Townsend began coding on the Sinclair ZX81 before moving to its successor, the ZX Spectrum. The embodiment of a teenage coder, Clive created several games for his local software house, Durell Software, before working steadily in the games industry, following a familiar path of Game Boy, mobile and PC development throughout. Having rediscovered his ZX Spectrum roots with recent homebrew releases, it’s high time we learned more about the man behind one of the Spectrum’s most extraordinary series of arcade adventures. This is Clive Townsend, In The Chair.

» A clip from Clive’s appearance on the BBC.

Hello Clive! Do you remember your first encounter with videogames?

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