Comments on: The Queen Bigs Up Codies Brothers

By: JonFitt

JonFitt — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:45:47 +0000

Hmm. I’m not sure I’d say they’ve done anything to really shape the games industry into what it has become today, apart from managing to weather it for a several years and form a successful-ish company. Is shovelling mediocre product for a long time sufficient to get a CBE now?

Is what they’ve done that different from say a pair of brothers who started a successful jam shop chain?

Aaah, but the games industry is “hip” and “with it”, while jam is not, and the honours list is always trying to prove its relevance.

By: RLacey

RLacey — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:08:12 +0000

Well, Mastertronic is now the brand used by the company that owns Sold-Out Software…

By: morningoil

morningoil — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:05:27 +0000

terry wins.

I remember when Codemasters first started – before even Dizzy – buying their £2.99 games from WHSmith in Lion Yard in Cambridge. Ah. They were rubbish, utter trash, and yet here we are: a little more than twenty years later, and someone else remembers those ludicrous splash quotes the Darlings put on the box.

Now someone dig up Mastertronic and I can go home happy.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:28:27 +0000

Jeff Minter needs coins minted in his honour, following the logic-of-puns.

By: terry

terry — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:11:22 +0000

“I got a knighthood! AMAZING!” – David Darling

“This is the best knighthood I’ve ever seen! FANTASTIC” – Richard Darling

By: James G

James G — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:50:18 +0000

For me Codemasters will forever be associated with Dizzy, as a result I will never be able to take them seriously. Even if they made a gritty, realistic and extensive RPG, which was said to have far reaching cultural and political implications, I’d still half expect to see an egg walk onto the screen while I was playing it.

By: matte_k

matte_k — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:46:44 +0000

Great picture. Would be even greater if she actually was a hitman on her days off.

By: Ravenger

Ravenger — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:07:21 +0000

I remember them mostly for their overuse of the word ‘Simulator’ back in the eighties, naming loads of their games Simulators when they weren’t really simulators at all.

I always thought that one day they’d release a game called ‘Simulator Simulator’.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:25:08 +0000

“Order of the British Empire? You were ordered OUT of the British Empire.”

I don’t care if they got CBEs, I wanted to quote Hancock.

Still, does this give all the games are an artform chaps some validation?

By: JoeFreakinRussell

JoeFreakinRussell — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:01:46 +0000

@ The Sombrero Kid

No, actually, I like your idea. A kind of “How do we know yesterday even existed?” kind of thing, but on a smaller scale. Yeah, I could get on board with that.

I do, however, realise that barely any of my comments on this story have been relevant. And those that I maintain are relevant are hanging on by the skin of their metaphorical teeth.

I may revisit this story in a couple of months so that I can reply to Tom with either “*Holds English A Level aloft in triumph*” or “Who needs English? English sucks” depending on how my results come out…

Anyway, wow, a CBE eh? What a crazy world et cetera.

By: The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:47:05 +0000

@ JoeFreakinRussell
yeah that’s a better example, but kind of steps on the toes of assume whereas i was going for the meaning of postsumption to be modelled on imperfect memory (like the fact you can’t know for sure the apple was eaten it even though you remember it) the way a presumption is modelled on simulation (like you can’t know for sure someone is going to eat an apple even though they’ve raised it to their mouth.

but your’s is probably better

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:45:42 +0000

*Holds English GCSE aloft in triumph*