Norman Sword Posted August 1, 2022 Report Share Posted August 1, 2022 (edited) At present I am dumping tons and tons of magazines, disc,tapes, games. Most have already gone. Today I uncovered this. Nearly went in a skip. The doodle was by my daughter some time in the very distant past. At least she drew on the back Edited August 1, 2022 by Norman Sword Drew Spider, jetsetdanny, MtM and 1 other 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 That's a nice piece of memorabilia to keep I think. I am about 90% sure I've seen that card design / artwork before, possibly in Sinclair Programs (a good magazine at the time but a bit late really unfortunately) as the 'cartoon styling' does quite closely match their score charts one, at least in the remnants of one issue I still have. I keep thinking I may of seen this also in competitions but I think that may of not been a seasonal card. Regardless, its a nice item. 🙂 jetsetdanny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Sword Posted August 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 This is 100% Roger Tissyman. As is evident by the mouse, the boots and the games depicted + the SP logo Spider and jetsetdanny 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 Thank you. 🙂 The Tynesoft branded variants (for the Acorn platforms) share the same cassette inlay design too. For a moment I though they were different but I'm mistaken having looked at one now. Now I look more closely I can see you're 100% right with the boot design, no need to look further. EDIT... My "avatar" on here is what I found for the Electron version of JSW2 floppy disc, although the BBC version did not feature this at all and I'm still not 100% sure if it was not a 'home user' who made said logo , similar to how now there are several absolutely excellent loading screens for Manic Miner for the Spectrum. jetsetdanny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted August 4, 2022 Report Share Posted August 4, 2022 Thank you for this piece of memorabilia, Norman Sword, it's much appreciated! 👍 Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtM Posted August 4, 2022 Report Share Posted August 4, 2022 On 8/2/2022 at 12:01 AM, Norman Sword said: At present I am dumping tons and tons of magazines, disc,tapes, games. Most have already gone. Today I uncovered this. Nearly went in a skip. The doodle was by my daughter some time in the very distant past. At least she drew on the back Norman I dread to think what other material went into the skip! But thanks for that, it's great computer game artwork, unlike the cgi stuff of today. I notice something like Thomas the Tank Engine in the bottom left corner, was that symbolic of something? I don't remember SP having the licence to do the game? The artist does have a highly recognisable style. jetsetdanny and Spider 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted August 5, 2022 Report Share Posted August 5, 2022 I did think (at one point) R.T did do graphic design too possibly for some other Software Project titles, as well as the actual 'drawings' but I do not think that matters if they did or not. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Sword Posted August 5, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2022 (edited) The Thomas the tank engine graphic is from the Perils of Willy. Which at that time was a VIc 20 only game The 2nd picture shows about a 1/3 of what I disposed off (in magazines alone)- there are six stacks of magazines in this photo. Edited August 5, 2022 by Norman Sword jetsetdanny and MtM 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtM Posted August 5, 2022 Report Share Posted August 5, 2022 5 hours ago, Norman Sword said: The Thomas the tank engine graphic is from the Perils of Willy. Which at that time was a VIc 20 only game The 2nd picture shows about a 1/3 of what I disposed off (in magazines alone)- there are six stacks of magazines in this photo. My goodness, what hidden treasures are among that lot! We had a good clear out during the first lockdown but I have kept my old computer mags, well my single remaining issue of Crash and my Zzaps. But I understand, eventually it seems like that stuff is dragging you down a bit. Do you have a motorbike Norman? Just the cover that is over the magazines, looks like a motorbike cover. Could be a car cover I guess. Thanks for clearing up the Perils of Willy image, I had seen that inlay before but just never put it together with the image of the old SP card. He was/is a talented guy Roger, is he still with us or doing anything computer related do you know? Spider and jetsetdanny 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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