Martin Edmondson - Creating 'Shadow of the Beast'
From Bedrooms to Billions - SPECIAL EDITION - EXTRAS ONLY! • 7m 57s
Martin Edmondson who later in his career had smash hits with titles such as 'DRIVER' and 'Destruction Derby' talks about how a few years earlier he turned a technical demo for the Commodore Amiga 500 into a fully formed game that was 'Shadow of the Beast'. The game pushed the Amiga hardware to its very limits and Martin even used a bizarre 'cornflakes packet stuck to a disc' approach to getting more data on the discs.
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