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Julian "Jools" Jameson (born in Sunderland, England in the Summer of 1968) is the CEO of Greenhill EnviroTechnologies Inc. based in Nova Scotia Canada, having previously worked in England (where he was known as 'Jools') as a computer game developer, designer and producer.
Julian currently runs Greenhill EnviroTechnologies which designs and develops electronic control systems for green technologies. The company's current Okapi product line, of sophisticated control systems for solar collectors, is featured on the Kickstarter website.
Jools' gaming career spanned some 20 years starting in the early days of gaming "messing around" with machine code on the 6502-based Oric 1 and has programmed almost every home computer and console since.
The most prominent game of his career is Cannon Fodder , which he co-designed and programmed. Cannon Fodder 2 followed and, later in his career, he converted it onto the Game Boy platform (a project he initiated). This conversion included an FMV player, which he both designed and programmed, capable of streaming digital video and audio. The Game Boy conversion received a BAFTA nomination for sound and high review scores, including 93% from Official Nintendo Magazine and 96% from Nintendo Power .
| Company | Game | Platform | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tynesoft 1986-1988 | Who Dares Wins II | C16; Plus/4 | Programmer |
| Future Shock | C16; Plus/4 | Programmer | |
| Phantom | C16; Plus/4 | Designer and programmer | |
| Spy VS Spy | C16; Plus/4 | Programmer | |
| Frost Byte | Amiga; ST | Programmer | |
| Seconds Out | Amiga; ST | Designer and programmer | |
| Rare 1989-1990 | Taboo | NES | Designer and programmer |
| WWF Wrestlemania | NES | Designer and programmer | |
| Tynesoft 1988-1989 | Beverly Hills Cop | Amiga; ST | Co-programmer |
| Circus Games | PC Engine | Designer and programmer | |
| Sensible Software 1991-1995 | Mega-lo-Mania | Mega Drive/Genesis | Programmer |
| Cannon Fodder | Amiga; ST | Co-Designer and programmer | |
| Cannon Fodder 2 | Amiga | Co-Designer and programmer | |
| Sensible Golf | Amiga | Programmer | |
| Argonaut Games 1996-1997 | Croc: Legend of the Gobbos | PlayStation; Saturn; Windows | Producer |
| Psygnosis 1998-1999 | G-Police: Weapons of Justice | PlayStation | Senior Producer |
| Codemasters 1999-2004 | Cannon Fodder | Game Boy Color; Game Boy Advance | Lead Programmer |
| LMA 2002 | PS2; Xbox | Senior Programmer |
Richard Joseph was an English computer game composer, musician and sound specialist. He had a career spanning 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding formats.
Technōs Japan Corp. was a Japanese video game developer, best known for the Double Dragon and Kunio-kun franchises as well as Karate Champ, The Combatribes and Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer. As of June 2015, Arc System Works owns the intellectual properties of Technōs Japan.
Sensible Soccer, often called Sensi, is an association football video game series which was popular in the early 1990s and which still retains a following. It was developed by Sensible Software and first released for Amiga and Atari ST computers in 1992 as well as for the IBM PC compatibles. The series was created by Jon Hare and Chris Yates, as a successor to their previous football game MicroProse Soccer (1988), which in turn was inspired by the arcade video game Tehkan World Cup (1985).
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Allister Brimble is a British video game composer. He began composing music and sound effects for the video game industry in the mid-1980s. He also produced various audio tracks, as "Brimble's Beats", that were distributed on cover disks of magazines including CU Amiga and Amiga Format.
Pit-Fighter is a fighting game developed by Atari Games and released as an arcade video game in 1990. It was Atari's first fighting game. The Japanese release was published by Konami. Home versions were published by Tengen.
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