The R3PLAY Arcade, Retro and Video Gaming Expo was held on the 6-7 November in Blackpool and, as I said a few days ago, it saw the official launch of Repton: The Lost Realms.
The visitors to the show had the poster I designed inflicted on them as they were queuing to get in:
The Retro Software team were ready and waiting to sell millions of copies:
Needless to say, the game completely sold out. And no wonder, the finished article looked gorgeous – in spite of the fact that I did all the artwork:
We were honoured that Repton took time out from running his HSE-free diamond mining conglomerate to attend in person:
The Beeb performed masterfully:
And so did its half brother by the milkman, the Acorn Electron:
Contributing to a real Repton release was a childhood ambition of mine – and one that, somehow, I’ve now managed to fulfil.
Paras Sidapara, Tom Walker, Michael S. Repton, Jonathan Parkin, Richard Barnard, Dave Moore, Peter Edwards, Andrew Weston, Richard Hanson, Matthew Atkinson, John Chesney and of course the durian munching genius polymath that is Tim Tyler all put a huge amount of work but most of all love into Repton: The Lost Realms and I think that really shows.
I’m really honoured I got to be a part of the team.