Dave Thomas
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Dave Thomas honed his programming skills on a succession of 6502-powered computers. He learnt to code on an Acorn Atom, then upgraded to an Atari 400 and used it to write his first published game (the space shooter Warlok). It was then a quick jump to the Commodore 64, where he teamed up with his brother Bob to create an arcade adventure set in a creepy castle (Dave did the coding, while Bob drew the graphics). The game was called Staff Of Karnath. Staff Of Karnath was released in December 1984 to immediate acclaim. Personal Computer Games magazine awarded it 9/10 and it sold more than 40,000 copies. The game’s star, Sir Arthur Pendragon, went on to appear in a further three C64 adventures – Entombed, Blackwyche and Dragonskulle. The brothers also authored Outlaws for Ultimate for Christmas 1985 . After leaving Ultimate they moved to Elite to code the widely appraised C64 version of Buggy Boy. After a stint on the NES for various developers Dave turned his hand to online and mobile games.
Credited on 13 games
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| Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1994, NES) | Programmed by |
| Full Throttle: All-American Racing (1994, SNES) | Programmer |
| Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing (1993, NES) | Programmer |
| First Strike (1989, Commodore 64) | Coding |
| Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in Live and Let Die: The Computer Game (1988, Commodore 64) | Programming by |
| Speed Buggy (1987, Commodore 64) | Programming by |
| Dragon Skulle (1986, Commodore 64) | Programming |
| Outlaws (1985, Commodore 64) | Programming |
| Entombed (1985, Commodore 64) | Programming |
| Blackwyche (1985, Commodore 64) | Programming |
| Scott Adams' Graphic Adventure #4: Voodoo Castle (1984, Commodore 64) | Commodore version by |
| The Staff of Karnath (1984, Commodore 64) | Programming |
| Warlok (1983, Atari 8-bit) | By |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 11 games with Bob Thomas
- 4 games with Peter J. Cook
- 2 games with Rod Humble
- 2 games with Steve Curran
- 2 games with Michael Backus
- 2 games with Mark Cooksey
- 1 game with Paul Hiley
- 1 game with Bobby King
- 1 game with William B. McCormick
- 1 game with Peter Tattersall
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Companies
- 5 games with Ashby Computers and...
- 3 games with Elite Systems Ltd.
- 3 games with Encore
- 3 games with Ricochet
- 2 games with Infogrames Studios Limited
- 2 games with GameTek (FL), Inc.
- 1 game with Tatsumi Electronics Co., Ltd.
- 1 game with Square Enix Limited
- 1 game with Wonderland Music Company, Inc.
- 1 game with Hudson Soft Company, Ltd.
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