BruceonGames
I've been reading Bruce Everiss' Blog ever since the imagine ding-dong, here's what he says on the subject in his Knol
Any way I've come to the conclusion that most of what he writes is done with hindsight and he's not particularly perceptive. has anyone else been reading what he's got to say.
Piracy, Imagine Software and the Megagames. This article cause some controversy because some people who were schoolboys at the time think they know more about the subject than the director of Imagine in charge of sales and marketing, which was myself.
Any way I've come to the conclusion that most of what he writes is done with hindsight and he's not particularly perceptive. has anyone else been reading what he's got to say.
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Hes a complete muppet though, nothing to do with the directors or stupid software ideas (Bandersnatch ?!) and over spending, nope blame it on the schoolkids.
The way he constantly went onto forums to argue his case and to create different accounts to slate Stu Campbell was embarassing specially at his age.
Bruce is just a has-been going on about how great he was back in the 80's, found it all very embarassing and cringeworthy reading his arguments. Quite sad in fact
He constantly pointed to the lacklustre software sales of the PSP, completely ignoring the fact that it was a bitch to get pirated software to work on it, and you risked bricking the console. That 99% of the games on PSP aren't worth bothering with he ignored utterly (and I speak from experience here in both counts).
"director of Imagine in charge of sales and marketing, which was myself" - is a perfect display of his arrogance. Since when did that make him an expert in playground or any other form of piracy? Those kids in the playground we're doing it, so of course it made them more expert than him!!
Totally agree, editing some of the posts was terrible ! No point letting people respond if youre gonna delete the ones you dont agree with or edit some of them to make them sound slightly different.
Wasnt like they were full of swear words etc, just points he couldnt respond to as he would lose.
The user account he created at another forum to slate Stu Campbell was embarassing to read, hes like your 'dad' and hes acting like some stupid chavvy 18 year old calling Stu names constantly etc. Just embarassing.
Might have been a big name back in the 80's but now hes just an embarassing older man who wants some attention.
This one was lost on me, I just know he went on to become fairly succesful with his later games like Earthworm Jim, MDK etc. - did Perry also spout some bollocks about the industry that is read-worthy? Any links for reading material to expand my wisdom will be highly appreciated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwkJSMFdhTI
High Five for not knowing though!
Dave Perry is a sulky twat, IMHO.
Stu Campbell kept a record of all the comments before and after Bruce edited/deleted them anyway....he posted a link to them in one of the threads about this over on the Retro Gamer forum.
I don't always agree with Stu Campbell but I greatly respect him for always having a valid point or evidence to back his arguments up.
There are two different Dave Perrys... bandana boy is famous for looking like an idiot while being beaten on UK show Gamesmaster, the other Dave Perry wrote games including Cool Spot.
Nah, that one on Gamesmaster is a different Dave Perry - wasn't he a reviewer or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Perry
This is the Dave Perry you're thinking of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perry