Antony Crowther is a former designer, programmer, and musician of

Commodore 64 The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas). It has been listed in the Guinness W ...

games. During the 1980s he worked for Alligata, Gremlin Graphics and later his own company, Wizard Development.

Career

The first computer game he created was a version of the board game ''Mastermind'', which was written for the PET 4032. Following the acquisition of a

VIC-20 The VIC-20 (known as the VC-20 in Germany and the VIC-1001 in Japan) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the ...

Crowther began to learn machine code and wrote several games which he showed to software house Superior Systems. The company gave him a Commodore 64 on loan which he utilised to produce his first commercial title, ''Lunar Lander''. He gained high status among C64 users in the mid 1980s with his highly prolific output, developing complete professional games in only two weeks. Crowther teamed up with fellow C64 musician, Ben Daglish, forming W.E.M.U.S.I.C., which stood for ''"We Make Use of Sound In Computers"''.Antony Crowther interview at Amiga Lore
/ref> More recently, Crowther has worked on games for consoles such as the PlayStation and Xbox ranges.

List of games

References

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