QUESTION:WHICH FAMOUS 16-BIT DEVELOPER-TO-BE FIRST FREELANCED ON TRIVIAL PURSUIT?
ANSWER: JON HARE. DID YOU GET IT RIGHT?
» Before cofounding Sensible Software, Jon Hare worked on Trivial Pursuit’s graphics.
∎As Retro Gamer talks to Jon Hare, England manager Gareth Southgate has just resigned. “I think it’s good timing from him,” admits Jon. “We’ve all criticised him for some of his decisions, but some people have been disproportionately negative to the guy. I mean, I remember when we didn’t qualify for the World Cup twice in a row!” Eight years after England’s dismal 1978 World Cup qualification campaign, Jon found himself working for ODE. “I got commissioned to do a game called RMS Titanic, to do some Commodore 64 graphics,” he says. At the time, he worked for a local Essex company, LT Software; after Jon and Chris Yates cofounded Sensible Software in March 1986, David Pringle remembered the young artist and called him back to work on ODE’s latest project.