DEVELOPER Q & A
RETRO GAMER SPEAKS TO BRIAN BEUKEN ABOUT HIS AMSTRAD CPC PORT OF RASTAN
Were you familiar with Rastan the arcade game?
Not until the job landed on my desk! Ocean provided me with one of its briefcase board kits and we played it to death for a few weeks.
The music still haunts me.
With whom did you work on Rastan?
I was working for Icon Design, a small work-for-hire code shop based in Prestwich, Manchester. The artist was Paul ‘Prof ’ Windett, and there was a little help from another programmer in the building whom I can’t recall. But he discovered the trick of reset ting the blanks midway down the screen which allowed a fixed panel at the bot tom.