In the chair with...
We are all familiar with the teenage bedroom coders of the early Eighties but Reg Stevens was a rare breed: a middle-aged lounge coder. Born in 1942 at the height of the Second World War, he didn’t begin programming games until he was 40, and then stopped when he was 42. Yet in those few short years, he produced some impressive titles for the VIC-20, pushing the unexpanded machine to its limits, particularly with his excellent version of Scramble. Though he never quite found his feet on the Commodore 64, his story is very much of a time when anyone could buy a micro and have a go at creating a game – and see it on the shop shelves. “It was never a profession for me,” smiles Reg. “I made all my games for fun – and I really did have a lot of fun doing them for those few years.”
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