![]() The pair met while undergraduate students at Jesus College in Cambridge and combined their hobbyist’s talents to make the first prototype for Elite in 1983, an ambitious early 3D space sim that is considered among the most influential games of all time. Two of those bedroom coders were David Barben and Ian Bell. ![]() These two machines, both developed in Cambridge, gave rise to a whole generation of bedroom coders who would go on to found companies and make some of the most important titles in UK videogame history, including Manic Miner, Dizzy and Grand Theft Auto. In fact, the thriving UK games industry we know today might not have existed at all without the ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro. ![]() As the birthplace of arguably the first ever video game and home to the world’s most popular free MMO, the East of England’s role in videogame history cannot be overstated.
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