Richard Hewison

Used to work in the UK games software industry. Love movies, football (Luton Town), gadgets, ice cream and of course my family!

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

Memories of Rainbird & Beyond is now live on Kickstarter, from Fusion Retro Books. If you want to know the history behind both publishers and the stories behind some of the developers and the games they produced, then this could be the book for you!
https://t.co/1NPAoS6NnQ

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

@IanRabjohn @wearelutontown They did originally have it, then it vanished shortly afterwards never to be seen again!

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

@RetroBrothers There's a chapter on Elite in my recently published book Memories of Firebird, obviously concentrating on the Firebird conversions in particular.

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

People are now receiving their pre-ordered copy of Memories of Firebird. Comments and reviews from them have been universally positive! 😁

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

@stephencsmith Thanks for letting me know. Hopefully a working version is up now!

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

Less than 8 weeks to go before Memories of Firebird is published! Don't forget that you can still pre-order at a discount price directly from the publishers web site at https://t.co/DFdWKnRMBn It's going to be emotional!

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

No idea why a copied URL would add an extra character, but here is (hopefully) a working version! https://t.co/yRnuFgZpPr

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

It will be here before you know it!

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

My latest article for Retro Gamer tells the story of 221B Software Developments, one of several games development teams in the late eighties and early nineties who caught the end of the 8-bit and 16-bit wave, before facing the arrival of the cartridge then CD-based consoles...

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

https://t.co/yRnuFgZpPr

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

@Wizwords On the right (black base)

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

@stephenw32768 Sorry to interrupt, but if you are the same person responsible for 47loader, I could do with a small technical nudge in the right direction!

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

Exciting news!
My book 'Memories of Firebird' is now available for pre-ordering via the publisher's website. Due next Spring (2024), if you pre-order now, you can get your copy at a discounted rate for all you early birds (excuse the pun!).
https://t.co/yRnuFgZXEZ
:-)

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

Discover the story behind Images Software, formed by Karl Jeffery and responsible for some terrific games in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Read all about it in my latest article for the always excellent Retro Gamer issue 246, out now! #retrogamer

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

The last three issues of Retro Gamer magazine (#243, #244, #245) have featured my articles articles divulging details behind developer and publisher Enigma Variations, developer Twilight and how Hookstone made 'Sentinel Returns' in the late 1990s.

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

Issue #242 of Retro Gamer is now out, including my article on 'Level 9's HUGE Adventures', explaining what happen when the UK text adventure specialists changed direction in the early 1990s. #retrogamer

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

@FrontierAstro I recognise that image! ;-)

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

@HewsonJoystick Technician Ted?

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

My latest article for Retro Gamer (#236) is now out, telling the tale of BBC micro publisher Software Invasion from the early 1980s.

[Richard Hewison @rainbirdrich]

@JohnAndersen21 A few of us from the olden days have been trying to source CTW issues (specifically 1980s rather than '90s) for years. Annoyed I didn't hold onto them when we had issues lying around the office back in the day. I have one solitary issue, from October 1985... :-(