THE MAKING OF WORMS

Once touted as a “Matthew Smith for the PlayStation generation” Andy Davidson briefly worked in the games industry before disappearing from the face of the earth. Never one to let a slight disappearance get in the way, Ashley Day tracks down the last great bedroom programmer to chat about his smash Amiga hit

The story of Worms is a ‘rags to riches’ tale that was common in the Eighties but had become a true rarity with the advent of the 16-bit era. So when Worms became a worldwide phenomenon, sellling over five million copies, many gamers were surprised to find it had almost singlehandedly been created by one man and his Amiga. Unaware of what the future held for him, Andy Davidson began work on Worms for his own amusement in 1990, some five years before the game’s commercial release. “It started life as a version of the old simple tank games that had been around since the 8-bit days”, explains Andy. “It was called Artillery then and ran on the cutting-edge hardware that was a Casio graph-plotting calculator! It was just an…

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