Atari were the first video game company, and opened their UK office in 1982. I was one of the first employees! It was called the London office, even though we were in Slough by the Railway Station and Bus Terminal - some 25 miles west of London!

At that time the company was part of Warner Communications, and were enjoying enormous worldwide success with their ‘2600 Video Computer System’ (VCS), a cartridge games system that plugged into standard televisions.

But the great video game crash came, and Atari sold the business to Jack Tramiel; following the resulting a purge I was moved into marketing.