HarrierAttack
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Fantastic interview (circa 1984) with the coder of ‘Harrier Attack‘ for the Speecy.

I remember wasting far too many hours on that game - which was apparently very successful at the time:

The version which Richardson wrote in a record-breaking two-and-a-half weeks soon out-sold the original - more than 17,000 copies so far compared to 10,000 for the Oric version.

Mr Richardson also offers this nugget of advice for all you budding coders out there:

[Richardson]…says there is no secret to creating good computer graphics. “All you need is loads and loads of graph paper,”

This is why we have RetroLust.