Super Chart Island

First, a recap of the last time I wrote about Yu Suzuki and Sega.

Konami did very well from Hyper Olympic (also known in some places as Track and Field), the 1983 multi-sports game which became one of the arcade successes of the following year.

Out of all the UK number one games I’ve covered from 1983 to 1987, Game, Set and Match is the third to have been a compilation rather than a single game.

The increasing success of Code Masters in 1987 prompted rounds of coverage of the Darling brothers as young business whizz-kids.

In its January 1984 issue, Computer & Video Games magazine printed code listings for nine different games, ready for readers to type into their computers and run.

Yoshihisa Kishimoto was born in Tokyo in 1961.

In 1980, the British government set up the Microelectronics Education Programme, MEP, with an initial budget of £12 million for four years.

In 1932, Britain’s national coalition government, headed by Labour Party co-founder Ramsey McDonald, decided to take action to stabilise the dairy industry.

“When I joined the company, I kind of had an idea of what I thought quality was and where the bar was to meet in terms of delivering a quality product.

Mark Cale had a vision, a plan to “do something a bit different, something that would really capture the imagination”.