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2. What got you into creating computer games in the first
place and what was your first computer game?
Walking into an amusement arcade when I was 7 and seeing games like
Snake and Space Invaders. I would not get those games out of by head.
3. What made you choose the football path?
Opportunity... ANCO wanted a football game, so I made one.... Kick Off.
4. What is favourite recollection of working on the Kick Off series?
When the good reviews started to come in.
5. I was a big fan of the games, but did you feel any
pressure from the competition between the Kick Off series and
the Sensible Soccer series?
Sensible Soccer took several years before they could compete with me. I
only felt pressure when I started working on the sequel to Kick Off 2 and
Player Manager. By Sensible Software's own admission, their game was
heavily based on mine, so in a sense I ended up competing against
myself.
6. What would you like to include in your next football game
which you've not yet brought to previous ones?
Greater emotional involvement of the game players.
7. Other than something you've been involved in, what's your
favourite game of all time?
Difficult. Either Elite or Descent 2 & 3.
8. Are there any games you've played that you wish you'd written?
Descent 2 & 3. Mainly because I could have improved them.
9. Aside from the plans for the forthcoming football game,
what else is on the horizon for you?
Helping the industry transform to a more stable and creative business
model.
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The following is an interview with games designer Dino Dini,
creator of classics like Kick Off and Goal!, games which made a
long-lasting impression on me and fashioned part of my late teens and early
20s as I played the games well into the early hours on my Atari ST with
friends and housemates at Keele University between 1990 and 1993.
