Legendary British games programmer, Archer Maclean has died

[GGizmo]

Dropzone And IK+ Creator Archer Maclean Has Passed Away

British games development loses a legend

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Archer Maclean - Wikipedia

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I just heard the news of Archers death today. The guy is a legend in British gaming. He helped create International Karate, and IK+. He initially focused on the Atari 8 bit system and then ported to other systems. Then he moved his focus to the C64, and on to the Amiga. He moved on to some modern consoles too, including I think the Wii.

The most famous last game I played of his was Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker, and I also played the follow up games of Archer Maclean's Pool.

A big known name in the retro gaming history. A sad loss. Only 60. RIP

 

[LewisRaz]

Played a lot of Jimmy White's snooker back in the day, had that annoying copy protection of having to look up a specific word on a specific line in the manual iirc. RIP

 

[Worthy]

Ahh, sad news. I have fond memories of playing Pool with my Dad on Christmas Day.

 

[RevBillyG]

Played hours of Jimmy Whites snooker on the Atari ST. Still have the disk somewhere.
RIP

 

[something daft already!!]

RIP

 

[Flibster]

*doffs hat*

King of snooker/pool simulations.

RIP.

 

[fish]

Rip, enjoyed many of his games growing up.

 

[Chris [BEANS]]

IK+ is still fantastic fun. Love the simple mechanic, brilliant sound effects, and all of the attention to detail in the graphics

 

[bigmike20vt]

oh no............... well that has peed on my chips this morning.

i loved most of his games as a kid. F++K cancer........

 

[exiges]

Sad news indeed. Archer bought our house in in Staverton, Northamptonshire in 2008. The house had a large snooker room (25m x 15m) that he emptied out and filled with many arcade game cabinets that he had painstakingly restored. He removed one of the walls to and put up a glass screen so he could view his original Tesla Roadster from the new arcade hall.