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Read-Only Memory is a British publisher of art books on topics of video game history and culture.[1]

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  1. 74 relations: Archer Maclean, Artist's book, Bomb the Bass, Cannon Fodder, Chris Anderson (writer), Coffee table book, Crowdfunding, Dave Perry, David Braben, David Darling (entrepreneur), David Perry (game developer), Digital Spy, Dino Dini, Dominik Diamond, Edge (magazine), Engadget, Eurogamer, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy VII, Foreword, From Bedrooms to Billions, Gamer Network, Gary Penn, Gary Whitta, Geoff Crammond, Golden age (metaphor), Greg Johnson (game designer), Hayao Nakayama, Hironobu Sakaguchi, History of video games, Home computer, Jeff Minter, John Foxx, Jon Hare, Julian Rignall, Kickstarter, Kotaku, Level (video games), Martin Galway, Mel Croucher, Metro (British newspaper), Monocle (brand), Naoto Ohshima, Out Run, Peter Molyneux, Polygon (website), Putting-out system, Sega Genesis, Sensible Soccer, Sensible Software, ... Expand index (24 more) »

  2. Kickstarter-funded publications
  3. Video gaming in the United Kingdom

Archer Maclean

Archer Maclean (28 January 1962 – 17 December 2022) was a British video game programmer.

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Artist's book

Artists' books (or book arts or book objects) are works of art that utilize the form of the book.

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Bomb the Bass

Bomb the Bass is an electronic music alias of English musician and producer Timothy Simenon.

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Cannon Fodder

Cannon Fodder is a series of war (and later science fiction) themed action games developed by Sensible Software, initially released as Cannon Fodder for the Commodore Amiga.

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Chris Anderson (writer)

Chris Anderson (born July 9, 1961) is an English-American author and entrepreneur.

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Coffee table book

A coffee table book, also known as a cocktail table book, is an oversized, usually hard-covered book whose purpose is for display on a table intended for use in an area in which one entertains guests and from which it can serve to inspire conversation or pass the time.

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Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet.

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Dave Perry

Dave Perry (born 21 May 1966) was co-commentator on the UK computer and video games television shows GamesMaster and Games World.

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David Braben

David John Braben (born 2 January 1964) is a British video game developer and designer, founder and President of Frontier Developments, and co-creator of the Elite series of space trading video games, first published in 1984.

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David Darling (entrepreneur)

David Darling (born 17 June 1966 in London) is a British video game developer and entrepreneur, known for co-founding Codemasters, with his brother Richard Darling, and for being involved in a long succession of top ten games over more than 30 years.

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David Perry (game developer)

David Perry (born 4 April 1967) is a Northern Irish video game developer and programmer.

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Digital Spy

Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.

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Dino Dini

Dino Dini (born 5 June 1965) is an Italian-British video game developer and creator of the Kick Off series of football games.

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Dominik Diamond

Paul Dominik Diamond (born 31 December 1969) is a Scottish television and radio presenter and newspaper columnist.

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Edge (magazine)

Edge is a multi-format video game magazine published by Future plc. Read-Only Memory (publisher) and Edge (magazine) are video gaming in the United Kingdom.

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Engadget

Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network. Read-Only Memory (publisher) and Eurogamer are video gaming in the United Kingdom.

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Final Fantasy

is a fantasy anthology media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi which is owned, developed, and published by Square Enix (formerly Square).

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Final Fantasy VII

is a 1997 role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation console and the seventh main installment in the Final Fantasy series.

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Foreword

A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing, sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature.

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From Bedrooms to Billions

From Bedrooms to Billions is a 2014 documentary film by British filmmakers Anthony and Nicola Caulfield that tells the story of the British video games industry from 1979 to the present day. Read-Only Memory (publisher) and from Bedrooms to Billions are video gaming in the United Kingdom.

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Gamer Network

Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in Brighton. Read-Only Memory (publisher) and Gamer Network are video game companies of the United Kingdom.

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Gary Penn

Gary Penn is a former British games reviewer who wrote for Zzap!64 in the 1980s and is a video game industry veteran.

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Gary Whitta

Gary Leslie Whitta (born 21 July 1972) is an English-American screenwriter, author, game designer, and video game journalist.

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Geoff Crammond

Geoff Crammond is a computer game designer and programmer who specialises in motor racing games.

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A golden age is a period considered the peak in the history of a country or people, a time period when the greatest achievements were made.

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Greg Johnson (game designer)

Greg Johnson (born 1960) is an American video game designer known for the ToeJam & Earl and Starflight games.

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Hayao Nakayama

is a Japanese businessman and was the former President and CEO of Sega Enterprises, Ltd from 1983 to 1999.

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Hironobu Sakaguchi

is a Japanese game designer, director, producer, and writer.

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History of video games

The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes.

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Home computer

Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s.

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Jeff Minter

Jeff Minter (born 22 April 1962) is an English video game designer and programmer who often goes by the name Yak.

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John Foxx

John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh; 26 September 1948) is an English singer, musician, artist, photographer, graphic designer, writer, teacher and lecturer.

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Jon Hare

Jon "Jops" Hare (born 20 January 1966, Ilford, Essex, England) is an English computer game designer, video game artist, musician and one of many founder members of the early UK games industry as co-founder and director, along with Chris Yates, of Sensible Software, one of the most successful European games development companies of the late 1980s and 1990s.

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Julian Rignall

Julian "Jaz" Rignall (born 6 March 1965, London, England) is a writer and editor.

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Kickstarter

Kickstarter, PBC is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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Level (video games)

In video games, a level (also referred to as a map, mission, stage, course, or round in some older games) is any space available to the player during the course of completion of an objective.

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Martin Galway

Martin Galway (born 3 January 1966, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is one of the best known composers of chiptune video game music for the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum.

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Mel Croucher

Mel Croucher (born 1948) is a British entrepreneur and video games pioneer.

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Metro (British newspaper)

Metro is the United Kingdom's highest-circulation freesheet tabloid newspaper.

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Monocle (brand)

Monocle is a global affairs and lifestyle magazine, 24-hour radio station, website, retailer and media brand, produced by Winkreative Ltd.

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Naoto Ohshima

(born February 26, 1964) is a Japanese artist and video game designer, best known for designing Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Eggman characters from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

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Out Run

(also stylized as OutRun) is an arcade driving video game released by Sega in September 1986.

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Peter Molyneux

Peter Douglas Molyneux (born 5 May 1959) is an English video game designer and programmer.

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Polygon (website)

Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.

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Putting-out system

The putting-out system is a means of subcontracting work, like a tailor.

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Sega Genesis

The Sega Genesis, known as the outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega.

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Sensible Soccer

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.

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Sensible Software

Sensible Software was a British software company founded by Jon Hare and Chris Yates that was active from March 1986 to June 1999.

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Sonic the Hedgehog

is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese developers Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara for Sega.

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Sonic the Hedgehog (character)

is a fictional character created by the Japanese game developers Yuji Naka and Naoto Ohshima.

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Speedball (video game)

Speedball is a 1988 video game based on a violent futuristic sport that draws on elements of handball and ice hockey, and rewards violent play as well as goals.

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Steam (service)

Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve.

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Tetsuya Mizuguchi

is a Japanese video game designer, producer, and businessman.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

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The Bitmap Brothers

The Bitmap Brothers are a British video game developer founded in 1987. Read-Only Memory (publisher) and The Bitmap Brothers are video game companies of the United Kingdom.

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The Chaos Engine

The Chaos Engine is a top-down run and gun video game developed by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade Software in March 1993.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

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ToeJam & Earl

ToeJam & Earl is an action game developed by Johnson Voorsanger Productions and published by Sega for the Genesis console.

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Tom Kalinske

Thomas Kalinske (born July 17, 1944) is an American businessman who has worked for Mattel (1972–1990), Sega of America (1990–1996) and LeapFrog (1997–2006).

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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VG247

VG247 (previously videogaming247) is a video game blog published in the United Kingdom, founded in February 2008 by industry veteran Patrick Garratt.

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Video game culture

Video game culture or gaming culture is a worldwide new media subculture formed by video game hobbyists.

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Video games in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has the largest video game sector in Europe. Read-Only Memory (publisher) and video games in the United Kingdom are video gaming in the United Kingdom.

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Wizball

Wizball is a horizontally scrolling shooter written by Jon Hare and Chris Yates (co-founders of Sensible Software) and released in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and later in the year for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.

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Xenon (video game)

Xenon is a 1988 vertical scrolling shooter video game, the first developed by The Bitmap Brothers, and published by Melbourne House which was then owned by Mastertronic.

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Yu Suzuki

is a Japanese game designer, producer, programmer, and engineer, who headed Sega's AM2 team for 18 years.

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Yuji Naka

, credited in some games as YU2, is a former Japanese video game programmer, designer and producer.

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ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit home computer developed and marketed by Sinclair Research.

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Zzap!64

Zzap!64 was a computer games magazine covering games for computers manufactured by Commodore International, especially the Commodore 64 (C64).

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16-bit computing

16-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 16-bit microprocessors.

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See also

Kickstarter-funded publications

Video gaming in the United Kingdom

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-Only_Memory_(publisher)

Also known as Britsoft: An Oral History, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works, Sensible Software 1986–1999.

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