Computer + Video Games - Commodore Is Awesome

WHO THE HELL DOI
BROTHERS!
Computer gaming has seen individual programmers
hyping themselves as stars before — from zany
hippies to child geniuses who are waiting until their
seventeenth birthday to step into the shiny new
Porsche, paid for out of last year's royalties.
There have been some instances of groups hyping
themselves. The Bitmap Brothers are one such case.
Ask them why they called themselves the Bitmaps
and you are likely to get a variety of answers. "It
came out of that Beastie Boys song — you know the
one that mentions the word brothers, well our name
has the word brothers in it too."
Or: "We were going to call ourselves the Big
Mac Brothers but we thought we might get done by
MacDonalds if we did". Even less likely as Steve is
a veggie.
The truth, if they haven't forgotten it, is probably
nearer to this: Someone came up with the idea
because it was linked to the way they programmed
— they all hated it but it stuck and now they have
come round to thinking that it is a pretty
unforgettable. name and so well worth hanging on
to. They are now fiercely Bitmap's to the man_ Here
are their profiles:
• STEVE KELLY
School: Left at sixteen to become a storeman at
Currys.
Born: In Manchester and now living in London
still speaks Mancunian, though.
Vices: Smoking, nocturnal programming and the
consequent afternoon rising, turning the phone off,
slot mochines.
Best TV prog: The Prisoner.
Worst TV prog: All soap.
Best computer prog: Missile Command (coinop)
and Elite.
Worst computer prog: You forget the really
bad ones — which is probably just as well.
Most embarrassing experience: Having to
explain to an ambulance man how I walked into a
scaffolding pole.
Best film: Paris, Texas.
Should software pirates be locked up?: The
people who do it for gain, on a vast scale,
definitely should be.
Is 8-bit software dead!: Not for a good while.
Some 8 bit games are still better than 16-bit games_
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