Antony Crowther is a former designer, programmer, and musician of
Commodore 64 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 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
Ben Daglish (31 July 1966 – 1 October 2018) was an English composer and musician. Born in London, his parents moved to Sheffield when he was one year old. He was known for creating many soundtracks for home computer games during the 1980s, inc ...
, forming W.E.M.U.S.I.C., which stood for ''"We Make Use of Sound In Computers"''.
Antony Crowther interview at Amiga Lore
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More recently, Crowther has worked on games for consoles such as the PlayStation and Xbox ranges.
List of games
References
MobyGames - Antony Crowther
article on Antony 'Tony' Crowther (aka Ratt)
;Notes
1965 births
Living people
British computer programmers
Video game composers
British video game designers
Video game programmers
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