Kosmos (missing authors).

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• Shadow Maker

  May 2009 edited May 2009

  Always wondered why they are "Shaw Brothers", if they have different fathers (according to the D in Graham D. Shaw, R in Adrian R. Shaw, etc)... Cousins maybe?
• ZnorXman

  May 2009 edited May 2009

  Shadow Maker wrote: »

  Always wondered why they are "Shaw Brothers", if they have different fathers (according to the D in Graham D. Shaw, R in Adrian R. Shaw, etc)... Cousins maybe?

  
  I am one of those simpletons who took them letters there between the first name and surname as being middle initials. But I could be way off on that one ... like in a different galaxy or something.
• gasman

  May 2009 edited May 2009

  I think Shadow Maker is drawing conclusions based on the Russian convention for middle names, which consistently uses the father's first name.
  
  In the UK (and elsewhere), we don't have a strict rule like that... as far as I know, the most common convention is for the first child to be given the father's first name, then the second child to be given the father's second name, and so on until you run out of names. (But these days, they're just as likely to be anything at all... favourite footballer, name of Greek island where they were conceived, Beyonce, Trixabelle...)
• ZnorXman

  May 2009 edited May 2009

  My sincerest of apologies to Shadow Maker ... didn't know where he was hailing from :-)
• mheide

  May 2009 edited May 2009

  ZnorXman wrote: »

  Kosmos is made by the Shaw Brothers ... which is all fine and dandy.
  
  
  
  So as to keep a full record, here are their names, and their particular involvement with this game:
  
  Written by Graham D. Shaw
  
  Graphics by David A. Shaw
  
  Music by Adrian R. Shaw

  
  I'll add the missing ones to the credits.
  

  Shadow Maker wrote: »

  Always wondered why they are "Shaw Brothers", if they have different fathers (according to the D in Graham D. Shaw, R in Adrian R. Shaw, etc)... Cousins maybe?

  This reminds me, the middle initials should be added to their names in the database!
• Shadow Maker

  May 2009 edited May 2009

  gasman wrote: »

  I think Shadow Maker is drawing conclusions based on the Russian convention for middle names, which consistently uses the father's first name.
  
  In the UK (and elsewhere), we don't have a strict rule like that... as far as I know, the most common convention is for the first child to be given the father's first name, then the second child to be given the father's second name, and so on until you run out of names. (But these days, they're just as likely to be anything at all... favourite footballer, name of Greek island where they were conceived, Beyonce, Trixabelle...)

  Actually yes, I was always wondering about the system of how the middle name is created in UK, coz I really tried to find it one day, but did not find any common rule, looks like in different part of UK there are different traditions about naming :( Coz as I read in wiki, there was also a tradition in UK & USA to give a middle name be the same as the father's full name, but it is not commonly used, so this is why I asked so strange question :)
• The Shaw Brothers

  February 2011 edited February 2011

  It was Crash magazine in their review of our cowboy game "Gunfighter", who gave the authors name as "The Shaw Brothers", so we started using that name more in our game credits.
  
  http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=Crash/Issue58/Pages/Crash5800026.jpg
• mheide

  February 2011 edited February 2011

  The Shaw Brothers wrote: »

  It was Crash magazine in their review of our cowboy game "Gunfighter", who gave the authors name as "The Shaw Brothers", so we started using that name more in our game credits.
  
  http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=Crash/Issue58/Pages/Crash5800026.jpg

  
  This reply pinged my subconscious that I still wanted to correct your team name from "Shaw Brothers" to "The Shaw Brothers".
  This has now (finally) been done!